Beans are just poking through.

I always was amazed by the amount of force one root has to put out in order to push a large bean like these through the soil.
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Corn coming nicely

This was one of the last fields I planted.




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Took a corn tour and ended up at Iowa Speedway

I will say a lot of the state emerged at the same time. 350 miles of traveling this weekend the whole state is close to the same stage.
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Finished with beans

All 160 acres. It didn't take long once I applied myself (I took yesterday afternoon off to plant my garden with my wife).

Now I just have to pick up rock, sidedress 890 acres of corn, and help host Dairy Days (our small town festival).....it's gonna be one busy month!

Frosty this morning

I'm heading out to plant beans. And will probably take a few hours off this afternoon to plant my garden.
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Tilling the last field for spring

So, I finished corn last night, or should I say this morning. Lightning in the south sky moving towards me, small hail and heavy rain reported with the storm...yep that'll keep a guy awake and working hard at finishing up corn. Got home at 3:30 a.m., woke up this morning and only got sprinkles. Feel fortunate since south 40 miles they got over an inch of rain.

Now onto beans.

Grow asparagus ! grow!

One of my top 5 favorite meals. Asparagus and morels...mmmmm.
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Just a little nubbin

Sprout just emerging from the seed, still has about 2 inches to get to daylight. Taproot is a little over an inch. Muggy as heck here today, but with all the humidity doesn't seem to be drying much. There goes my plans to get some planting done again today.


Might as well look for some more morels.
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Planting progress

So, when I got rained out and made it to the end of the field that acre counter stopped at 666.73, out of the 890 acres of corn I have to plant, and the 1040 total acres I have to plant. Been a long week (calculated that I worked just shy of 120 hours last week) but I got a lot done so I'm happy. Still tired this morning.

Most in my area are on their last day of corn if not wrapping it up. We got between .75 and 1 inch yesterday (in about a half hour). It POURED!! Even had a little small hail. We were getting nice and dry, so a lot should soak in, and today should be a good drying day. So I was hoping to get back planting today. I got 140 acre tilled and would take me about 9 hours to plant ( I got a little screwing around to do to get refilled for the next field). More than likely it will not get fit to till my next 80 until after this next front moves through.
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Yummy morels

Got rained out and had time to find some morels.

Getting going

Water pump went ouy on my tillage tractor, so I took the time to get my planter going and get the bugs worked out.

As of this typing I got 250 acres tilled (it was a long night) and 85 acres planted. I HOPE to get all 250 acres planted before the rain tonight.
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Creating SOME dust

Finally got my soil finisher back into the field today. Its not ideal, but it is working. Others in my area doing the same (all agree we are pushing it a little, but hard not to with the rain in the forecast.).
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Picking rock

None too dry (had to back out a couple spots today), but my hope is pick rock today and tomorrow morning, then till ground tomorrow afternoon, and try and plant 80-120 acres Wednesday before the rain. We will see if everything goes according to plan.