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

[yoga-like_abana]

Just getting caught up on the SF posts.  Kinda like watching a fawn learn to walk immediately after birth.

Looking forward to this exciting plot twist to the thread

[Stupid Fitz]

Just getting caught up on the SF posts.  Kinda like watching a fawn learn to walk immediately after birth.

Looking forward to this exciting plot twist to the thread

 

[ben ji]

This was a wheat field last year, harvested in early July then my dad worked it over in September when he had his crop farmers tractor so volunteer wheat would come up for his cow farmer to graze cattle on in the fall. I was surprised at how much had come up from the waste grains.

[ben ji]

But when you compare it to the planted wheat field across the property line you can definitely tell the difference.

[ben ji]

I think we are planting Milo or something in that field this year but according to my dad next year he is just going to cash rent it to our local land Barron so he can actually make some money.

[steve dave]

I think we are planting Milo or something in that field this year but according to my dad next year he is just going to cash rent it to our local land Barron so he can actually make some money.

like hiring someone else to plant and harvest it? has he considered just not doing that?

[ben ji]

Already back in KC but last night a big storm missed us by a couple of miles. It was sunny at the cat ranch but a couple miles to the southeast it was storming pretty hard. We ended up getting 40 pts of rain overnight.

[ben ji]

I think we are planting Milo or something in that field this year but according to my dad next year he is just going to cash rent it to our local land Barron so he can actually make some money.

like hiring someone else to plant and harvest it? has he considered just not doing that?

I've been telling him for 5 years (since I started posting on this blog about it and everyone's advice was to just lease it out) to lease everything out to our distant cousin land Barron but he wanted to try share cropping it with some guy he knows from HS. Long story short he has basically broken even every year when he could have just been cashing checks. He has finally come around.

[steve dave]

I think we are planting Milo or something in that field this year but according to my dad next year he is just going to cash rent it to our local land Barron so he can actually make some money.

like hiring someone else to plant and harvest it? has he considered just not doing that?

I've been telling him for 5 years (since I started posting on this blog about it and everyone's advice was to just lease it out) to lease everything out to our distant cousin land Barron but he wanted to try share cropping it with some guy he knows from HS. Long story short he has basically broken even every year when he could have just been cashing checks. He has finally come around.

nice work

[KST8FAN]

I think I've shared that dad became a rock quarry barron back in the 90s.  The last area to be quarried was done  about 3 years ago, and reclamation is in the last phase.  Wheat and Rye sowed last fall with brome grass.  The wheat us now greening up. We'll see if the brome emerges.

Pictures from the same spot yesterday and 4 years ago.


Tom

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[ben ji]

Did you have to truck topsoil back in before you started the reclamation or were you just throwing seeds in the gravel?

[KST8FAN]

Did you have to truck topsoil back in before you started the reclamation or were you just throwing seeds in the gravel?

Top soil was accumulated in berms around the perimeter during quarrying.  It's put back on top after the over burden (non rock material) is contouring.

Each area quarried is left with a pond.


Tom

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[ben ji]

Did you have to truck topsoil back in before you started the reclamation or were you just throwing seeds in the gravel?

Top soil was accumulated in berms around the perimeter during quarrying.  It's put back on top after the over burden (non rock material) is contouring.

Each area quarried is left with a pond.


Tom

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Interesting. The reason I asked is the GF's parents own a couple hundred acres in MO that they bought for cheap because it was strip mined for coal right next to the Rock Island Railroad. It was never "reclaimed" so its basically just steep hills and ravines with tons of tree's and strip pit lakes.

I'm guessing they did not berm the top soil back in the day to make it easier to reclaim.

[ben ji]

Actually that picture with full foliage does not show how hilly it actually is so here is one without as much foliage. I decided to go on a random hike on a nice day when I was out there this winter and holy hell it kicked my ass, just climbing hill after hill if you wanted to go in a straight line.

[farming_cat fan]

Another corn growing season has begun.


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[meow meow]

did you just plant one seed?

[farming_cat fan]

I hope not. Should have been planted around 26,200 seeds/acre. I'll get another picture when the plants are more easily seen or as some folks say "row the corn". It comes from the idea of being able to first see the corn plants and there are enough of them visible that you can tell they are planted in rows.

[KST8FAN]

Another reason I would have been a poor farmer.  I absolutely suck at going behind the planter, whipping out a pocket knife or pliers handle, and digging up corn seeds to
 make sure a) they're middle knuckle deep and b) properly spaced.


Tom

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[star seed 7]

God puts them where he puts them Tom, who are you to question his judgment?

[Sandstone Outcropping]

I hope not. Should have been planted around 26,200 seeds/acre. I'll get another picture when the plants are more easily seen or as some folks say "row the corn". It comes from the idea of being able to first see the corn plants and there are enough of them visible that you can tell they are planted in rows.

always amazing to see how fast the corn grows.

[KST8FAN]

I hope not. Should have been planted around 26,200 seeds/acre. I'll get another picture when the plants are more easily seen or as some folks say "row the corn". It comes from the idea of being able to first see the corn plants and there are enough of them visible that you can tell they are planted in rows.

always amazing to see how fast the corn grows.

Get it in the ground, get it up, get a canopy.

Stanley Ehler, Crop Science 1983

Also Stan Ehler after the first test:

"For those of you who did not fair well on the test you need to ask yourself if you're serious about your education or if you're on track to be the tire changer back home at your local coop."


https://eupdate.agronomy.ksu.edu/article_new/k-state-agronomy-is-sad-to-announce-the-passing-of-dr-stan-ehler-323-6


Tom

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[Sandstone Outcropping]

I hope not. Should have been planted around 26,200 seeds/acre. I'll get another picture when the plants are more easily seen or as some folks say "row the corn". It comes from the idea of being able to first see the corn plants and there are enough of them visible that you can tell they are planted in rows.

always amazing to see how fast the corn grows.

Get it in the ground, get it up, get a canopy.

Stanley Ehler, Crop Science 1983

Also Stan Ehler after the first test:

"For those of you who did not fair well on the test you need to ask yourself if you're serious about your education or if you're on track to be the tire changer back home at your local coop."


https://eupdate.agronomy.ksu.edu/article_new/k-state-agronomy-is-sad-to-announce-the-passing-of-dr-stan-ehler-323-6


Tom

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[KST8FAN]

Row the corn!


Tom

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[KST8FAN]

Next stop today was rhe Dover Cafe for lunch and homemade pie.  After lunch, we drove the flint hills pastures, but first, we stopped to see a rock wall erected by the native stone society.

Tom

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[KST8FAN]

What was black, scorched earth a month ago is now lush green with cattle grazing.

Tom

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