Posted by billonthefarm on July 02, 2009 at 20:32:20 from (216.24.115.33):
Today, July 2nd I finished planting.
Unbelievable, you could never have convinced me that would ever happened before it acctually happened. This is the slowest spring planting season in my life and could well be the latest date of finishing planting my generation will ever see. Finished most of our own beans last wednesday but today I finished a little 15 acre patch we usually plant to corn and ear pick but planted to beans now and I planted 25 acres for a neighbor and it was still way to wet and was nearly stuck a couple times. Several guys have finishing up the last couple of day and some continue to plant. No idea what to expect from here on with this weather. Crop prices are dropping like a rock and we have no idea if we will even have anything to sell. I think these three picks from wednesday pretty well sum the whole spring up. My friend and neighbor, bill, who happens to be travisM's dad, called and needed a little help. He was just a few minutes away from finishing planting.
Unfortunately the camera batteries went dead because before we got done we had wallered the planter tractor and planter deep into the mud, had it jackknifed and made lots of holes with the MX tractor trying to get it out. We pulled forwards and backwards and forwards again. Eventually after about half and hour of hooking and re hooking it came out and I think we all were suprised!
My favorite picture, bill and I just standing there. I dont even remember if we were saying anything or just standing there staring at it, wondered what the heck we were going to do. The whole darn spring has been that way. NOTHING has went right. Everything has been a fight and every decisions has had huge repercussions it seemed. We will all talk about the spring of "09" for years and it will never be forgotten. bill
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