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Posted by georgeky on June 20, 2007 at 23:10:12 from (205.188.117.71):
In Reply to: Re: Wheat Harvest posted by Howard H. on June 20, 2007 at 21:21:00:
It is becoming quite arid here. We are way below normal on rain. Hay was about 1/3 short, wheat is no good, tobacco is fairing pretty good, but it is a dry weather crop for the most part,corn is curled up,pasture is really going south in a hurry. I am glad someone has a good crop. I suspect the tobacco to be OK, we will irrigate it if necessary. Not the easy way though. I will have to pack 5 inch pipe through the mud. I hate that job worse than any on the farm. A few folks here have traveling guns, but I still use stationary guns and sprinklers some. The worse we had was in 83. We packed pipe around the clock for 61 days. Sucked 13 ponds dry and lowered several more a bunch. I have been lucky and haven't watered any for 3 or 4 years. I don't raise near as much as I use to, labor cost got to eating it up, so now I raise only what we can handle ourselves. About 15 acres. I have a couple hundred acres of corn and almost that much in beans, but make more on baled hay than either of those. Going to cut way back on everything except tobacco next year. The boy's have gotten jobs in town and won't help much anymore and I can't do it all without them. I don't care much, my place is paid for so I don't need to much. I have 90 cows to retire on kinda.
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