It’s May 6, 2013 and planting finally began on Scott Farms. This is not a terribly late planting date, but it seems much later because last year started and finished in record time. This time last year we had been done planting for two weeks, and because of wet weather we are getting a much […]
Category: Planting
Post relating to planting or seeding a crop.
This week’s farm week in pictures brings us a few steps closer to planting. We started the week out pretty warm, but we’ve finished wet and cool. It’s definitely not going to hurt having some more moisture in the ground before we plant seed. Last year we started planting very early on March 28th and […]
Dad and I spent some time this morning working up our yearly chart that will come along for the ride in the planter tractor. This chart is a baseline for certain settings on the planter than need to be changed in relation to seed size. Sizing corn and soybean seed is an important step in […]
In our area once you get North of US 24 soils start to get sandy. The terrain gets a little hilly in places, and the sandiest areas are often the highest. This year we didn’t perform any tillage on our sandiest fields, and judging by what I saw yesterday that was a good idea. It’s […]
It’s still warm and sunny with nothing but a 30% chance of rain late next week so we have been planting since late last week. That’s early. Really early. So early that we are going to finish all the corn acres by the end of the day today. Take a look at what we’ve been […]