This is just because achiro can't.
I am obviously a REAL poster.
This is just because achiro can't.
I am obviously a REAL poster.
hah! you unlocked it for me beeyatch!
I would agree with you but then we'd both be wrong.
Although I still don't see any post by royal?
I would agree with you but then we'd both be wrong.
The jist was me wondering how hard the late freeze was to make the Oklahoma wheat harvest miss estimates by 20-30 bushels.
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Has all the rain lately caused a problem trying to get the combines in to harvest?
That wouldn't knock the yield down. It has to be the late freeze this year. But I am surprised that it caught the markets off-guard.Originally Posted by Petro-Sooner
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Yes. It's always something.....too much rain, not enough rain, too many bugs, too late of a freeze, blah blah.
By all accounts, the folks that had one type of wheat(can't remember the name) thought they had done ok with the freeze, most even took the time and expense to spray for army worms, but as the wheat topped out and started to dry it was white and looks to be in really bad shape.
I would agree with you but then we'd both be wrong.
I have never understood wheat farmers. Oh yeah, and they're combining right now out by me. But I couldn't tell good wheat from bad - unless it's winter graze.
I dont see how familys make a living off of the land. I had an aunt and uncle that had wheat in the panhandle. I was just a small kid at the time but I remember that it was always something they were worried about. A lot of times it was the lack of water.
This is exactly why I farm the way I do. I waited until I could afford to farm. I don't have to make money at it, so I've reduced my stress 100-fold. I can pay my bills and eat with what I make from my real job. Farming is either icing on the cake, or a pain in my *** - depending on the cold/heat/wet/dry/bugs/prices.
Unless it's completely terrible, you have to go into the field and examine the heads to get a real good idea. At least the prices are good this year. Wheat does the job on lower quality land, although I don't understand why anyone ever bothers to irrigate it, because you can't really make irrigated wheat pay.
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I'm a harvester of sorrow
I can imagine that those pivot irrigation systems dont come cheap or cheap to run.
you can flood irrigate but that means you'll be out there with a shovel trying to make the water go where you want.
Most of the guys out by me who irrigate grow alfalfa and rotate it with corn or cotton. One guy's corn is well over my head already. My Iowegian wife used to say "the corn needs to be knee high by the 4th of July." Since she's come to Oklahoma, "knee high by the first of May." Yeah, it sucks cause it doesn't rhyme and ****.
They are way more effiecent though, unless you have unlimited water, or extremely limited water and an abundance of labor. That and flood irrigation really only works well for row crops on flat land.
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alfalfa makes good hay and is good for the soil, but you got to water it. Mix in some Timothy and the horse guys love it. You got to rotate it cause of bugs though.
Knee high by the 4th of July applied when people were planting in Mid-May. That adage is at least 25 years obsolete up here too.
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Dude, there's a whole lotta **** that's 25 years obsolete up there.
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