Posted by JD Seller on May 02, 2015 at 19:44:06 from (208.126.198.123):
About an hour ago we finished all the corn for this year. The ground was as mellow working as I have ever seen it. The conditions are perfect for a good start. I even switched two fields from soybeans to corn. The ground was working nice and the planter was setup for corn so I just planted all corn. I can make better money on $3 corn than $9 soybeans anyway. I usually can use the corn for feed some how.
I still have a pretty good rotation as I have seeded down more hay ground the last two years. I can rebuild ground with alfalfa and manure. The farm I rented last year is now 50% hay and 50% corn. It is all contour striped again. The soil will stay put now.
The main tractors got just over 200 hours on them in 11 work days. So they did not sit much. The tillage tractors did not get shut off other than to check fluids since last Sunday. Well they did get the oil changed Tuesday morning. It was a hot change. LOL Let them idle for a few minutes and drop the oil plug. Used an old pair of welding gloves to hold on to the filters. We had the oil changed in less time than it took to grease the finishers.
I know the fuel tank took a beating too. I am glad I contracted for fuel there a few months ago. It is about 75 cent a gallon under current cash price.
Now if I could find some feeder cattle that cheap I would be set. LOL
The boys will start planting soybeans Monday if it does not rain. They only have about half as many soybeans to plant. It does take some extra time handling all the extra seed. They use totes for the seed beans.
They will change the planters over to soybeans tomorrow. We take the corn boxes and insecticide boxes off. Then we have a set of three bushel boxes with the bean plates mounted on them. The boxes have extensions so the planter will hold around 65 bushel of seed.
So I hope you fellows are having a good spring planting season too.
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