Wheat harvest in central Kansas

David from Kansas · Jun 21, 2009

On Thursday and Friday wheat harvest got underway in earnest here in mid-Kansas (Ellsworth-Rice County) but rain stopped all that on Saturday. It will probably be several days without rain, and with lots of sunshine before the harvest can resume.

buickanddeere · Jun 21, 2009

Winter wheat is just heading out around here. Spring wheat is 6-10" tall.

David from Kansas · Jun 21, 2009

I don't know why my picture is so small. I loaded it off my computer and it is 1000X750. That size in an email would be almost full screen. Any suggestions?

Janicholson · Jun 21, 2009

The software is limiting the resolution on the image (YT end of the path) so the image does not over dose the site, and delay opening for slower systems (which some have dial up) some medium pictures do get through. JimN

Allan in NE · Jun 21, 2009

David,

A picture of 680 X 480 will fill any screen and will carry a weight of around 56K, which is a small, fast upload/download sized file.

Since most folks don't know how to squeeze 'em down and resize to a proper screen fill, this site automatically does it for you if you load to the "tractorshed gallery".

Trouble is, they over do it; clear down to a "I can't see it" size. :>)

Now, your 1000 X 750 picture is a HUGE file. When you are viewing it on your machine, the computer resizes it for fit your screen and it seems normal to you. However, if it were to be placed on the Internet, it would be way, way too big. This is why many posts have to be "scrolled" to read the writting. The picture is taking up all the room.

Long story short: resize your pictures down to a 680 X 480 and use a different hosting site to store/access.

Allan

sammy the RED · Jun 21, 2009

(quoted from post at 20:04:32 06/21/09) Winter wheat is just heading out [b:be7607ad52]around here.[/b:be7607ad52] Spring wheat is 6-10" tall.

I see your location is in front of computer, how do you get that wheat to grow in your room ? 8)

railhead · Jun 21, 2009

Any idea how many bushels you were making...guesstimate? did freeze hurt you? Southern KS I heard anywhere from 10 to 50 bushels but seemed to average 20-25 (All dryland wheat) Some guys got froze out and a lot of this wheat looked dead 2 months ago.

Billy NY · Jun 21, 2009

I've been meaning to ask this question about photos. Is there a site that will automatically crop em down to 640x480 when you upload to their site?

One of the steps I take to post a photo is to open the photo edit software, re-size, save as with a suffix, letter A, so don't lose the full size original one then upload to photobucket, which I thought may have an option like that now, not sure about that though, the site has changed and or upgraded, then again could have slipped right past me, and this is a dumb question

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Howard H. · Jun 21, 2009

Hey Billy -

Photobucket does offer the size option... Right under "choose files" (when you upload) is a drop-down menu for "reduce size" and you can choose which size you prefer there...

Their options are:

Tiny ( 100 x 75 )
Small ( 160 x 120 )
Medium ( 320 x 240 )
Large ( 640 x 480 )
15" screen ( 800 x 600 )
17" screen ( 1024 x 768 )

HH

Howard H. · Jun 21, 2009

Hey Allan -

The pic size depends on your viewpoint, for sure...

I keep my laptop resolution at 1920x1200 and desktop higher than that, so a 640x480 pic takes up less than a quarter of the screen.

I wish antiquetractor's would accept larger pics! I hate trying to see details in their tiny little pics.

My camera's native resolution is 3872x2592, so squeezing them down to even 1024x768 loses a LOT of detail...

Howard

thurlow · Jun 21, 2009

Is this more better.......

<a href="http://s261.photobucket.com/albums/ii44/thurlow8/?action=view&current=wheat.jpg" target="_blank">

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David from Kansas · Jun 21, 2009

We haven't cut any wheat yet. This pic was of a neighbor's field 1.5 miles east of me. I think the wheat will be very, very good here this year, but I haven't heard any yields yet. I think there will be lots of 40-60 bushel wheat. Mostly all dryland around here. What little irrigation there is usually goes to corn or soybeans. The freeze didn't hurt us here as the wheat was immature at the time of the cold weather. Ironically, I heard a report from Kiowa County (along the OK border) that the wheat that was winter grazed was outyielding the non-grazed wheat. Thanks for the help about sizing of pics from all you guys.

railhead · Jun 21, 2009

well that answers my question better sell at todays market instead of holding out, I really thought the wheat up your way was froze out but for you guys I am glad it is not. happy harvesting and good luck. Hope you get that 50 bu avg.

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