Thursday, July 17, 2025
Brandon K began spraying double-crop soybeans today. He had to wait a few days after some heavy rain to allow the soil to firm up. The johnsongrass and waterhemp are surging right now… there is plenty of moisture, and the temperatures are in the low 90s. The mixture of Roundup and Liberty will use these sunny and hot days to stop the weeds. Waterhemp, a strong relative of pigweed, has become a real problem. It just keeps coming and coming. Each plant makes about a bazillion seeds, and all of those seem to be viable, and with every rain event, a new flush of waterhemp gets started.
Looking good today
Brandon K is making good progress today on spraying DCB.
Brandon D is mowing around the farmstead today, and he has been working with the JD 6145R tractor and R15 cutter to mow roadsides and levees and waterways. He has most of them looking very nice with only the riparian strip at the Dunn farm still needing a mow. Some of the roadsides that I did in early June, are ready for a 2nd pass. He will eventually get to all of those.
From Operations Center, you can see where Brandon D is mowing roadsides…
The office crisis of blown hard drive is nearly over. I have recaptured just about every file that was lost… not all of them were recovered, but I have every word document and excel sheet that is absolutely essential either recovered, restored, or recreated. It was a mountain of work, but it taught me a good lesson. My backups will be more frequent in the future!
Wheat deliveries are now caught up. We will use any little upward blip in the wheat market to price out the remaining bushels. We want to be empty (MT) of wheat by the end of August.
The weather folks are predicting very hot conditions next week. Tuesday through Thursday they tell us that the temps will get over 100ºF (38C), and when you add in the humidity factor, it could reach 110ºF or more! I’ll be looking for more tasks in a tractor or in the office for those days!
We had some very strange clouds around last evening. As I was driving in the last about 9 pm lane night, this scene towards the east caught my eye…
At first glance, this looks like a forest fire on the other side of a big lake. But look more closely… it is a shelf cloud low in the sky, with the evening sun shining into it!
Keep cool, out there.
