Started Monday. So far the test weight is 56-58 but moisture so far is 11-14 so we can cut. Protein has been both low and high in same field... go figure. On the little brighter side, the wheat we are cutting is the worst (we think) and should be a lot better when we get into the stuff that didn't burn up. Some yields have been from 10 to 30 so far so really we can't complain. Well, tell me a farmer who doesn't anyway :).
I have a little time between loads to get on the smartphone and peruse the internet a few minutes. We finally got 3g service here a couple months ago so that has been nice. Can look at weather and our local coop webpages without it taking a half hour literally
This is the earliest we have ever started, being almost 3 weeks early here.
Heh heh got a story or two about the city slickers :icon_biggrin: my brother in law's sister, she and her husband are helping us this harvest. She is used to taking the keys out of any vehicle she drives. We NEVER take keys out of the vehicles here. So she will drive something like a pickup to the field or help us move, then she will ride back to her folks house for a while, in the meantime we need to use the pickup or whatever and then we gotta keep yelling at her to leave the f*&^&&&ing keys in the vehicle. Or she turns the headlights on then forgets to shut them off and voila.... yes she gets yelled at again. Yesterday she drove my b-i-l pickup with the service trailer hooked up and parked it by the garage at the farm. Well, there is a little slant to the land there and she gets out and leaves the pickup in neutral. We all come through the yard to change fields and voila again, the pickup had rolled downhill into the 12000 gallon diesel fuel tank. She didn't even know it lol. Good thing the pickup had one of those big chrome cattle guard bumpers and radiator protector. Her husband has never driven a diesel truck, so I got the job of teaching him how to shift a truck without using a clutch. He is doing pretty good now with some practice as that is something that you have to develop a feel for. We just got to quit getting him lost out here in the flatlands, as he doesn't know east from west, only left and rights :icon_lol: He is doing real well tho, and he is not hard on things which is great, and he takes care of stuff. Its his first time helping and we all gotta learn sometime and they are fun to be around. Their kids are fascinated with it all too. And they get to get out and get a little dirty which they don't get to do in Colorado Springs where they live.
Yeah, everything is early this year and stunted from being dry. I have been running about 1/3 of a ton /acre, which at least 1/3 of the worst 1st cutting I have had before. But like you guys I started with the poorest fields and am working into the better stuff. This is the 1st time in 16 years I haev had to irrigate up everything. We have even irrigated 1st cutting which I usually don't do, and you can't tell. :disgust:
heh heh heh....reminds me of the time when Honcho tried to teach me how to drive a hay stacker...... lucky for me You Tube wasn't invented yet......
Heheh, oooh that would have been great to relive over and over again. :icon_lol: