Thanks Pappy. We generally don’t get hail insurance on all our crops. Most of them will grow out of the damage depending upon what growth stage they are in. The most damaging timing is when certain crops are mature. Ripe wheat, soybeans and edible beans can literally be trashed in the field losing much of the grain we hope to harvest.
I don’t think I have had as busy of a week as Pappy, but it was probably close.
I finished up planting my son’s corn. Then I put the second application of fertilizer on our wheat. We can get higher yield with less fertilizer if we split the application. We apply a little over half of it early and then we apply the second application just before the flag leaf comes out.
While I was working at that my brother and nephew switched planter to soybeans and got started planting them.
When I finished the wheat I traded My nephew off in the planter. Most of our soybeans are planted on headlands(the ends of the field where we turn around) and wedge rows. It’s a bit of a hassle planting, taking care of and harvesting them, but much easier than harvesting sugar beets from them in the fall. My nephew had planted the actual fields but I needed to plant the areas of the beet fields because I knew where the beets where and where the soybeans had to be planted.
The beets we planted last were up nice.
Bjrogg
