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[Ron Cook]

Rye and wheat work well by air.  Helicopter might be cost prohibitive.  
Soybeans should work if the ground is damp long enough and the beans are 
in shade.  In order to make soybean planting by air work here in western 
Iowa you have to get them covered with a little soil somehow.  This is 
spring planting soybeans.  We can't do that double crop thing.
Ron Cook
Salix, IA
On 7/20/2013 6:43 AM, jtchall at nc.rr.com wrote:
> Sounds like you guys are having a tough time with the rain. I talked to a
> guy who's brother works for a Deere dealer near the NC/SC border. One of
> their customers is a real big farm. They are still trying to get wheat out
> due to the rain. Running 2 combines with duals and still getting stuck. It's
> so bad they keep a big tractor on hand just to pull them out. The wheat is
> too good to abandon and accept an insurance payment. It's going to take a
> lot of tillage to get the ruts out of the field.
>
> How did the seeding by airplane work? I wouldn't think a soybean could
> sprout and survive like that. Dad has told me before about a neighbor who
> used a helicopter once to seed some wheat in standing corn. Must not have
> worked to well as I don't think he did it but once.
>
> John
>