[AT] Planting corn today

pga2 at hot1.net pga2 at hot1.net
Tue May 30 11:40:19 PDT 2006


Hey, Farmer,
If it rains up there, just come on down and jump on my M with the 6' bush
hog and you can do my pastures. :o)

Phil

Lots of work to do at home and no time to do it, even with a three day
weekend.

> I need to plant my big corn crop this afternoon...   <(^¿^)>
> I have the planter attached to the Super MTA so I can plant 4 rows of
> indian corn (color corn to some folks) about a 1/4 mile long. It is almost
> as much work planting that patch as it is to plant a field...
> The difference is that it pays many many times better than field corn...
  <(^¿^)>
> I disked the plot yesterday with son Scott's Oliver 1755 and his John
> Deere 15' disk. I was going to use my John Deere 4020 and my IHC 16' disk
> but the 4020 battery was down so I just put a charger on it and let it
> sit. I try to put a float charger on it for a week at a time now and then
> but things have been so screwed up I forgot this spring.
> This has been about the first this spring? that the plot was dry enough
> to disk. we are not getting rain every day now like we were but it still
> is not going much more than 3 days between rains. At least the last couple
> were light. The fellow I rented the grain acreage to still has not been
> able to plant anything here yet. The guy across the back fence finally
got   > to no-till some corn yesterday.
> As soon as I get that indian corn planted I will probably put the 6'
> bush-hog on the Super M and start cutting some areas of tall stuff. Of
> course it is supposed to rain again later this afternoon and it is
> starting to look like it already...   :-(
>
> --
> "farmer"






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