Cool and congrats the group is on the board. Have not been out yet, going to try after work if the weather is cool enough. Buddies cabin floor rotted out so I have been helping him get it fixed so he has a place to stay where he hunts. Ever replace the whole floor on a 90 year old cabin.........it's not fun.
My season starts this Saturday but we started combining beans yesterday and we're castrating calves Saturday so I wont be going out for a while.
Ohio opens next Saturday. I'll be out a couple times opening weekend, but it's supposed to be a scorcher down here.
Oct 10th will be my first sit. Been shooting alot lately in the backyard and starting to feel real good out 40. Somethings going to be in trouble! Sent from my SCH-I545 using Tapatalk
COmbining beans?! Holy chit, that seems early, our beans are all still green and leafy. Several of my late beans aren't even filled out yet. O.o I just finished cutting corn today, it sucked. Glad to be done, I'll be glad when 2015 season is effin gone. If 2016 doesn't go better than this one I may pack it in and open a stamp shop or something...I hate this year.
Farmers here in Illinois have been picking beans and corn like crazy this week Sent from my SCH-I545 using Tapatalk
Yep, thems some good beans! I have some that look like they could do that, maybe a couple hundred acres but they're conventionals and they are starting to lodge pretty bad. My double crops are thin but look good. I just hope they'll do 25 or so. All the first crop late planted beans look about like my double crops except even later. Just couldn't get stuff planted here this year and then couldn't get a good stand. They'll tolerate a quick rain but we had several long stretches where we had so much rain and so frequently that we had surface water standing for weeks on end. It would finally settle down for a day or two and then start in again. I kept thinking it would dry up....July 5th passed then the 10th, 12th, 15th...finally a window opened wide enough to get done. Took prevent plant on 133 acres, planted the last 200 in mud just to get done and have them insured (at a reduced rate too). I finally got my last insurance check today...premiums at up 2/3rds of it. Feast or famine, for all the incredible experiences and freedom a farmer gets to enjoy...there's an equal amount of heartbreak and stress to pay for it. If I ever hit a bumper year, I'm going to retire, sell everything and move to Tahiti....I can always come back to KS for a couple weeks to hunt deer, lol.
All spring I've been hearing about your guys' planting season and thankful for our great growing season. We had a 3 week window in August that we didn't get any precip other than that it's been northing short of what we could have planned if we had control of it.
I'm glad someone is having a good year. We've had a couple of three week stretches late in the summer but got rain just as things were looking stressed. For the beans that got planted and up, it's been a good summer. I bet a good 60-70% of the beans here went in after July 5th though. The ones that got in and up in our first decent window look great, i just couldn't cover enough ground fast enough to get very many in on that window. It was about a week long if you started planting in some wet conditions. If you hit the front of the window they came up, if you were in on the last couple of days they didn't...a three'ish day window is pretty rough then it was a month before we had another couple of days to plant. The entire spring went that way...it was crazy. We had great windows early, I got all my ground sprayed and fertilized anticipating a bumper year then the cycle from hell began. So I ended up with tens of thousands in inputs sitting in the rain for weeks on end and late late beans going in hoping to recover it all. I certainly learned a lesson. No more pre-emerge anything except a cheap burn down. I'll top dress the damn crop from now on after it comes up or spray a foliar feed and I'll just use post emerge herbicides, seems like I always have to use them anyway.
We have to use pre's here or you're asking for trouble. Rain is good for pre's but not that much rain!
Well guys, I got an arrow through one tonight. He ran into the swamp, I gave him an hour then looked at the arrow. Arrow looked good with blood end to end but some fat. Tracked him with good blood then about 30 yards after where I saw him stop I think I jumped him so I backed out. Not sure.
