Ask Steve Dave Farm And Cow And Ranch And Tractor And Truck Related Questions

[420seriouscat69]

Sounds like something that someone would say trying to cover a conspiracy theory. I’m not buying it!

[KST8FAN]

Has Temple Grandin weighed in on this debacle?


Tom

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[420seriouscat69]

 

https://twitter.com/watchchad/status/1537301309090668545?s=21&t=zb4rbm35pDpktk2-Ypz4gA

[cfbandyman]

Cowgate 2022 is not what I had on my bingo board for this year but here we are

[Sandstone Outcropping]

2% of the '22 KS wheat crop has been harvested. Variable yields and test weights so far in SC KS.  I predict that the harvest will move north rapidly over the next week

https://kswheat.com/news/day-1-kansas-wheat-harvest-report-4?fbclid=IwAR11RWfMgX9CI-IPMyWy9MMglm-_cls_Xc4d9ghM8ksrefiNlR__ydiIzGs

[yoga-like_abana]

Was it the heat that killed them or that they were fat?

[420seriouscat69]

 

[KST8FAN]

2% of the '22 KS wheat crop has been harvested. Variable yields and test weights so far in SC KS.  I predict that the harvest will move north rapidly over the next week

https://kswheat.com/news/day-1-kansas-wheat-harvest-report-4?fbclid=IwAR11RWfMgX9CI-IPMyWy9MMglm-_cls_Xc4d9ghM8ksrefiNlR__ydiIzGs

Back in the day my summer job was collecting wheat data for the KWC.

FGIS offices in Topeka, Dodge City, KCK collecting railcar inspection data and the elevator origins.  Then all that had written data was keyed in to spit out the wheat quality report.


Tom

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[Sandstone Outcropping]

2% of the '22 KS wheat crop has been harvested. Variable yields and test weights so far in SC KS.  I predict that the harvest will move north rapidly over the next week

https://kswheat.com/news/day-1-kansas-wheat-harvest-report-4?fbclid=IwAR11RWfMgX9CI-IPMyWy9MMglm-_cls_Xc4d9ghM8ksrefiNlR__ydiIzGs

Back in the day my summer job was collecting wheat data for the KWC.

FGIS offices in Topeka, Dodge City, KCK collecting railcar inspection data and the elevator origins.  Then all that had written data was keyed in to spit out the wheat quality report.


Tom

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I'll bet that was a treasure trove of data.

[sys]

man, that sucks.  poor cows.

[420seriouscat69]

 

https://twitter.com/texas_ranger724/status/1537215850696024064?s=21&t=kxbdap0FsAmGXBpQF2PQWw

[farming_cat fan]

Here are a few pics from this spring. I haven't had time to get the drone in the air when it hasn't been overly windy. I hope to get some drone pics soon. Ended up spraying round-up on the cover crop mixture hoping to only kill out the barley and keep most of the vetch and peas. Didn't work as well as we'd like. There's a couple of pics of what it would have looked like had we not sprayed it at all. I apologize for having to rotate your phone/computer monitor as I'll have to remember to take horizontal pictures with my phone for the photos that I post here.















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[Sandstone Outcropping]

Can confirm. Wanted to drive under a spray rig so bad earlier this week but resisted the urge. (xpost midwesterners thread)

https://twitter.com/midwestern_ope/status/1537850986726817795?s=20&t=gg-2zlvYKvwWG-cFKswmUw

[Sandstone Outcropping]

Here are a few pics from this spring. I haven't had time to get the drone in the air when it hasn't been overly windy. I hope to get some drone pics soon. Ended up spraying round-up on the cover crop mixture hoping to only kill out the barley and keep most of the vetch and peas. Didn't work as well as we'd like. There's a couple of pics of what it would have looked like had we not sprayed it at all. I apologize for having to rotate your phone/computer monitor as I'll have to remember to take horizontal pictures with my phone for the photos that I post here.















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great stuff, farmingcat. Can your cows graze that or will it make them bloat / upset their stomachs?

[steve dave]

Can confirm. Wanted to drive under a spray rig so bad earlier this week but resisted the urge. (xpost midwesterners thread)

https://twitter.com/midwestern_ope/status/1537850986726817795?s=20&t=gg-2zlvYKvwWG-cFKswmUw

my dad has one of those. it's pretty sweet. and the spray arms extend like 15 miles each direction.

[steve dave]

you have to have a special license to order some of the herbicide that's used in those rigs. but not many people have it. so sometimes a guy who may or may not be MY OWN FATHER will order some and leave it out on his trailer and tell his bud about it and then it disappears overnight.

also a special license to buy the tranquilizer poison stuff that you dart bulls with to knock them out when they are getting all rowdy and won't do what you want them to. then you give them the antidote to wake them up. it's irl secret agent movie stuff. but it'll kill the crap out of you if you jab yourself with the dart so it's good that you have to have a special license or whatever. so my dad will sometimes get called to come out and shoot a poison dart into the ass of a bull and knock it out.

[farming_cat fan]

Here are a few pics from this spring. I haven't had time to get the drone in the air when it hasn't been overly windy. I hope to get some drone pics soon. Ended up spraying round-up on the cover crop mixture hoping to only kill out the barley and keep most of the vetch and peas. Didn't work as well as we'd like. There's a couple of pics of what it would have looked like had we not sprayed it at all. I apologize for having to rotate your phone/computer monitor as I'll have to remember to take horizontal pictures with my phone for the photos that I post here.















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great stuff, farmingcat. Can your cows graze that or will it make them bloat / upset their stomachs?

I'm being told that there isn't a concern with bloating. It does sound like there has possibly been issues with their skin. My dad hasn't seen this issue when he grazes his vetch.

[steve dave]

you know who doesn't GAF about bloating or skin or crap? a goat. an honest to god regular old billy goat. it'll eat a can. crap you not.

[Sandstone Outcropping]

Can confirm. Wanted to drive under a spray rig so bad earlier this week but resisted the urge. (xpost midwesterners thread)

https://twitter.com/midwestern_ope/status/1537850986726817795?s=20&t=gg-2zlvYKvwWG-cFKswmUw

my dad has one of those. it's pretty sweet. and the spray arms extend like 15 miles each direction.

My dad hates huge machinery and hires the elevator to spray his crops.

you have to have a special license to order some of the herbicide that's used in those rigs. but not many people have it. so sometimes a guy who may or may not be MY OWN FATHER will order some and leave it out on his trailer and tell his bud about it and then it disappears overnight.

also a special license to buy the tranquilizer poison stuff that you dart bulls with to knock them out when they are getting all rowdy and won't do what you want them to. then you give them the antidote to wake them up. it's irl secret agent movie stuff. but it'll kill the crap out of you if you jab yourself with the dart so it's good that you have to have a special license or whatever. so my dad will sometimes get called to come out and shoot a poison dart into the ass of a bull and knock it out.

My wife's brother-in-law tells a story of how their vet had one of those darts loaded with a med called "Rompin" in a coffee mug in his truck and accidentally poked himself in the hand. The vet felt kind of wobbly for the next day but thankfully no major complications. Dad likes to use his dart gun but only for antibiotics (not anesthesia/sedatives) out the pasture. He successfully treated a case of "footrot" with his dart gun a few days ago.

[Sandstone Outcropping]

https://twitter.com/watchchad/status/1537301309090668545?s=21&t=zb4rbm35pDpktk2-Ypz4gA

Not to pit this up but what was the occasion of Chad's first viral fame? Was it a truck rant about how people don't respect the flag or something?

[_33]

Farming Question:  How long from the time you plant the little baby tomato plant until it grows big and makes big fat tomatoes for you to eat?

[steve dave]

Farming Question:  How long from the time you plant the little baby tomato plant until it grows big and makes big fat tomatoes for you to eat?

THIS IS A GARDEN QUESTION! 

[_33]

Gardens are baby farms.

[Spracne]

Are you telling me all the tomatoes I buy at the store were lovingly grown by the _33's of the world in their backyards?

[steve dave]

Are you telling me all the tomatoes I buy at the store were lovingly grown by the _33's of the world in their backyards?

that's right