On Sunday of Memorial day weekend I sent cousin's son-in-law up to the house with this message "When plantin' beans in no-till, if the back wheels on the 1466 slip going up the hill and the planter drive wheels are flippin' mud up on the frame, it is to dang wet (I didn't say dang) Cousin said "Plant em anyway! - the weather is too good and rain is on the way." We got lucky with the "mud-it-in gamble", it did rain on Tuesday of the next week and the slots closed up. We've got good stands corn and soybeans (east Central Indiana on rolling ground) but a lot of guys 30 miles west of here have had a lot more rain on flat ground that will need to be replanted. We are getting more rain today so we are thankful we are in the ground as we have planted in June before (1978, 1981, 1996) and it ain't no fun. We finished harvest in 1996 a week before Thanksgiving, but had a good production crop. You can't win, the weather in 1998 was probably the best I've ever seen, we planted all in mid-May when the ground was warm, grew a beautiful crop, it rained a lot in August and September finishing the beans to where the stalks were up the armpits on a grown man (some of them went over from being so big), made 60 to 65 bushel and that year beans were down to about $4.00. That was the same fall hogs went to nothing and cousin got out of the pig business for good - but now he is 61 and I am 47 and every spring we throw it back in the ground. Our grandpa used to tell about a late June hard freeze in the 20s - they lost the crop (all of it, especially the corn), but survived the loss and went on to farm another 60 years. Best of luck to you - hope you get planted and have a bountiful harvest this fall.
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Today's Featured Article - Grain Threshing in the Early 40's - by Jerry D. Coleman. How many of you can sit there and say that you have plowed with a mule? Well I would say not many, but maybe a few. This story is about the day my Grandfather Brown (true name) decided along with my parents to purchase a new Ford tractor. It wasn't really new except to us. The year was about 1967 and my father found a good used Ford 601 tractor to use on the farm instead of "Bob", our old mule. Now my grandfather had had this mule since the mid 40's and he was getting some age on him. S
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