Posted by JDseller on May 20, 2014 at 22:29:49 from (208.126.198.123):
We have had a rough spring with the late winter. It jammed all the work into a very short time frame.
The corn is starting to spike real well. Some of it will be able to be rowed after today's heat. The later planted corn has a much better stand. It was too cold on the earlier planted corn. Some of it looks real tough.
I guess I am not totally correct on being all done planting. I kept about 50-60 acres to finish some water ways and get the contour strips back. This is on the one farm I rent next to me. I spoke of it in an earlier post. My family farmed/rented this farm for over fifty years. It is currently owned by three sisters. They actually split it into three parcels. Six years ago they rented it to a local BTO. He was offering them a sky high rent for then of $350/acre. Well he gutted the farm out in the five years he rented it. Tore out all the water ways. Removed all the contour strips. Plus little fertilizer the last few years he farmed it.
The sisters rented it back to me last year. I/my family has it under a LONG term contract. I built all new pasture fence last year. This year I have rebuilt over 5000 feet of water ways. Some of these had washed out over six feet deep. I used my brother's JD 750J crawler. It is one SWEET machine.
Plus I am laying out all the contours strips like they used to be. So by this time next year almost a third of the farm will be back to grass/alfalfa for hay.
The sisters are well pleased with how things are shaping up. They all have been out walking the place over. They really like all the new grass that is going to be there.
I am going to weight 400 LBS if they keep bring me out things they have cooked. LOL
I am also getting more done without a computer of my own. I would set at my old one and the next thing I knew there was an hour or two gone. So I am not sure I am going to buy another one right now. I have enough projects to finish to keep me busy for a long time.
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