How agriculture works thread

[ovrszd]

I put very little faith in this report. Not the fact that Russia might have "exported" some AG equipment back to Russia. But the fact that it's now being considered worthless.

 

[Buggs67]

What Putin and the Russian Army is doing is criminal. And I think he's going to get away with it. In a year or two he'll have the eastern part of Ukraine and it'll be business as usual. Just like when he seized Crimea.

 

[ArlyA]

Lura in Nebraska just started into planting seed corn.

 

[sixdogs]

I wonder if Laura was in on the big snowstorm out there? Looks like she missed it and Nebraska is desperate for moisture. Much of that area is in a big drought.

 

[ArlyA]

I wonder if Laura was in on the big snowstorm out there? Looks like she missed it and Nebraska is desperate for moisture. Much of that area is in a big drought.

No, my family member's in central SD didn't either. It was further north.

 

[5030]

I put very little faith in this report. Not the fact that Russia might have "exported" some AG equipment back to Russia. But the fact that it's now being considered worthless.

Nothing runs like a Deere unless it don't run at all....lol

 

[ovrszd]

Nothing runs like a Deere unless it don't run at all....lol

Give it to a kid, they'll have it running in no time.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Nothing runs like a Deere unless it don't run at all....lol

Nothing runs like a Deere, being chased by a kubota.

 

[5030]

Nothing runs like a Deere, being chased by a kubota.

Never had that experience other than following one down the road and we were both pulling implements so speed wasn't an issue.

 

[Jstpssng]

I'm on flat ground and drove my wife's Tundra pickup over to hill country. I thought something was wrong with my transmission until I called a friend of mine in another state and he explained it was the transmission downshifting and then upshifting with all the hills. On the flat ground around me, I don't recall it ever doing that. Seems odd. And, duh on my part.

It's flat, Minnesota ground but try Millennial Farmer. He's a good farmer and it's worth a look. Some corn ground is 300 bu to the acre and the US average is maybe 165. Black dirt is a national treasure no matter where it is.

https://www.youtube.com/c/MNMillennialFarmer/videos

I look at some of the pictures of soil out there and think "No wonder everybody headed west back in the 19th century." Somebody recently mentioned subsoiling to 3 feet... try that here and you will bring up orange dirt, if you don't hit ledge first. I wouldn't know how to plant without contending with rocks... and it doesn't matter how many you pick, the frost moves more up to the surface every year. I did have the bigger ones picked from my garden spot at one time. Weeds were getting bad though so I had a brainstorm that I would turn the seeds under deep, and bring some fresher soil to the surface. I put my single bottom plow on and send it as deep as it would go (16")... boy did I ever find some nice rocks! I had never had it trip before, but made up for it that day!

 

[JethroB]

I took notice of the planting of my 20 acre field beside my house recently. The neighbor farmer grows about 1,000 acres of cotton & peanuts along with running some cows. Typical fields run much smaller in South Georgia than out west, maybe 75 acres along with smaller equipment. Lots of short road trips.

January - soil sampled with an ATV mounted rig
February - buggy broadcasted lime
March - sprayed with Roundup for winter weeds, mostly goat grass
- mapped out the field using GPS and subsoiled the rows
April - buggy broadcasted fertilizer
April 30th - planted the cotton seed exactly in the subsoiled rows using GPS
May 7 (yesterday) - cotton is up to 1 inch high

Other than subsoiling it was not tilled, harrowed, or bedded.

 

[Buggs67]

Lura in Nebraska just started into planting seed corn.

I will have to watch this one. I learned a lot about pivots from her other video.

 

[ArlyA]

BIG tillage equipment in Garfield Washington. Interesting on how they farm in this dry hilly country. These Challenger tractors are well over $200,000 new.

 

[ArlyA]

The same guy operating his D7 cat "antique" 1975 year tractor. They were a special version made by cat to be used on farms.

 

[ptsg]

Making round bales with two older Ford tractors here in Portugal. This is an English guy who moved to Portugal and just gave away the grass to his neighbor, who is a sheep farmer.

 

[ArlyA]

Making round bales with two older Ford tractors here in Portugal. This is an English guy who moved to Portugal and just gave away the grass to his neighbor, who is a sheep farmer.

Thanks for posting ptsg. My folks were to England some years ago to the lake district to attend the "world border collie trials". He raised, trained and trialed BC's for years and years. Below is a pic of him at my folks.

 

[ptsg]

Thanks for posting ptsg. My folks were to England some years ago to the lake district to attend the "world boarder collie trials". He raised, trained and trialed BC's for years and years. Below is a pic of him at my folks.View attachment 747212

That's a beautiful dog. I'm always amazed how well those dogs learn how to keep the flock under control.

 

[ArlyA]

That's a beautiful dog. I'm always amazed how well those dogs learn how to keep the flock under control.

And this is why we train our dogs (mutts). Here is my dad at a trial. Most of the Border collies he trained were sold to ranchers.

 

[ptsg]

And this is why we train our dogs (mutts). Here is my dad at a trial. Most of the Border collies he trained were sold to ranchers.View attachment 747214

That's cool! I had no idea that there was an entire competition with sheepdogs going on.

 

[ArlyA]

Here is the web site for England trials. Below is a few more pics taken at trials and at home.