Tuesday, July 16, 2024
We woke up to rain today around 5am. It rained steady until about 10 am. The gauge shows 1.28″ (33 mm). Another welcome and nice rain for the month of July. That makes 3.78″ (96 mm) for the month.
Among other things, you can see the rain totals for today and for the month on our weather station in the farm office
The double-crop soybeans are coming along pretty well. I did have to replant about 1/2 of the acres, but this rainy period is getting those replants going. The reason for the replant was that there was just enough moisture in the soil to get them started, but many areas dried out around the emerging beans and they died from lack of moisture. “Sprout and die” is a tough thing to see.
Bill has been back at it this week, taking truckloads of corn to ADM in Newburgh, Indiana. Brandon caught a tiny uptick in the price, and sold some more corn and wheat. We have some older, existing contracts of wheat to deliver beginning in August. Brandon has been busy helping at the Knox County Fair, but he will join Bill today with trucking. It is getting to the time of year when we’d like the bins to be MT (empty), in preparation for the fall harvest. When August arrives, we will prepare the combines and headers for fall. Harvest could hit a bit earlier this September, maybe soon after Labor Day, because of some of the earlier-planted corn and soybeans. We hope so anyway.
The Tony Truck is ready for Brandon to take it to Newburgh
The Peterbilt has to go to the shop tomorrow for some minor engine work. It seems with the trucks, “it’s always something”.
The tractors are all cleaned and stored away. With the addition of the new building this spring, we can now get almost all our machines under roof here at the main farm. With some strategic rearranging, we just might get everything under roof here if our two distant buildings become unusable.
This new building has been a very helpful addition to the farm.
The 6145R is hooked to the R15 rotary cutter and ready for action as soon as conditions permit. In the background are our two 4wds, the 9520R and the 9R 540.
Today’s rain will delay our application of herbicide to the double-crop soybeans (DCB). The DCB are beginning to be urgent to get that application made. But, it’ll only take a bit over 1 day to get that done, once the soil conditions allow us to travel over the fields. It just won’t be today. The johnsongrass is booming, but once the fields are sprayed, it’ll clean up the appearance pretty fast.
The cooler day in the low 80s is welcome. For about 5 days in a row, we’ve had high 90s and high humidity. But today is more comfortable. Whew!
Have a happy week.
