okay well i'm sitting at the water our our water station filling up the water truck
the post seeding spraying has begun uh we're done seeding uh been done for
a couple weeks but uh the peas are getting to the point where it needs now to put the
grassy herbicides on to kill the grass uh wild oats cheatgrass that kind of stuff in the peas
they're looking okay um but uh they they don't you use up much deep moisture and
we don't have any deep moisture anyway so they just take on the little rains the the
light rains you know light rain a half inch is a great rain anymore we just got uh three tenths uh
about four days ago about yeah about four days ago and that's our biggest rain event
since the 12th of august 2021. so yeah it's been a little bit uh a little bit dry
but you never know about you know what's going to come up next week it might rain in time
and you'll start getting more of a crop and and you've got to do these things preemptively
as far as spraying um so you you figure that out i could draw it out but you don't want to get caught
when harvest comes and you do have somewhat of a crop out there and then it's a massive weed
so anyway i'm sitting here and enjoying filling the water truck uh this is what i got to look at
love me get these nice fluffy clouds floating by beautiful blue skies no wind which is uh that's
an awesome it's awesome feeling to feel um so anyway yep but i'm just sitting here and uh
reading some of the comments and uh we'll um i'll keep uh looking for the ones that need to be
commented on uh one thing that's you know a number of people saying well if it's dry why don't you
just haul water to the fields and uh irrigate well this truck holds let's say 5 000 gallons of water
one inch of water on a rain will do about 20 let's just say 27 000 gallons
for every inch that uh the rain puts per acre so this is uh not even one quarter of
the amount of what a one inch so it'd be like 25 hundredths or a quarter of an inch of rain
if we did it on one acre then you take that times 5 000 acres of spring wheat or wheat and then
other crops uh you can see that there's no way that you could haul any amount and it takes its it
takes a total of five inches to start pushing to push the crop up to the point where it'll produce
uh heads and some seeds and then anything you get above that it keeps that into the yield so
it's a insurmountable mountain or what you call a wave um to be able to go out and to haul water
to irrigate the crop it just doesn't it just won't work won't pencil out so we're pretty much
uh with no ground water no irrigation water available anywhere around here where uh
just whatever the lord provides as far as irrigation water from the clouds so well we've
been down this road before um and it'll it will have our dry years and our wet years and this is
some of the dry ones and we'll get through this and then get on to the wet ones so anyway i'm
just enjoying it i have kobe here somewhere he's out checking uh to see if any holes have any furry
things in them and i'll get this filled then get it to the field and and keep the sprayers
going let's go do some crop scouting i gotta show you guys some stuff but first i need some glasses
throw aways cheap they last
maybe not the most stylish but you know what i'm harder glasses and hats so it works
well this is a field that was kind of in the middle of seed spring wheat doesn't look very good
there's not much out of the ground ah let's just look in here the camera huh
it hasn't even germinated oh man it's a little soft it might there's some moisture in the ground
there we got like three tenths about almost a week ago you'd think it'd be germinated by now but i
mean there's there's nothing growing across here occasionally a couple streaks of green where there
might have been some moisture where we hit but um i think the the theme of the story you guys are
going to see as i go across the ground here is it was so dry seating you know when we see it in our
peas there was just enough moisture there to get the peas up that was why we got on the ground so
early that's why we were pushing so hard to get to seeding because we were afraid this might happen
but what happened is that moisture is now wicked down lower and wicked up
because the ground's warming up and the wind's blowing and when by the time we got to see
him we were putting our seeds in dry dirt and they just have not even three tenths of rain
it's so dry three tenths just doesn't go very far this hasn't been enough to get things going there
are some crops that you guys will see in here a little bit that are are growing and look okay
this one's like 110 acres 120 acres and maybe some low spots are gonna grow it's gonna be so patchy
all right this one a little more mellow ground it was seeded a little bit earlier
overall uh looks like a pretty good stand i mean compared to what we were last fielder in
this stuff's up i mean this stuff will look decent if it gets some moisture here it'll
fill out and really start turning like a green lawn but definitely better than last up i think
there's still some spots that are probably dry that haven't had a chance to germinate yet but
overall i'd probably say 80 of this field is up and out of the ground and growing strong so
here a couple miles further down the road this is a common occurrence i think you're gonna see
areas where there's a patch of green stuff growing nothing tire tracks typically are dry there's not
much going on there ground was just compact a little harder just didn't have a chance to
really get the germination going like right here is some very yellow looking spring wheat
and it wasn't very deep i mean that's one reason why it's not growing it was
barely an inch deep it probably should have been a lot deeper we got some moisture here
so there's definitely some stuff going but the real yellow coming out of the ground they're
running out of steam there was just enough moisture to get some of those to start growing
they had just enough energy to just poke up to the surface and then they're just kind of dying off
and this light rain that we've had a couple days here and there like a 10th 500 something like that
just helps soften the surface just enough that hopefully they can get out get some sunlight and
live just long enough to hopefully get a rain in a week or two here let's hand some maybe next week
originally we had planned on seeing the entire farm we were gonna crop everything
even though we had such a dry year last year with inputs being as expensive as they are
we figured we put the cheapest crops down we could put and hopefully not put as much chemical
down and save some money but as we were going we just realized it's just so dry that we're just
basically putting seat to probably fail so when you're at that point we see it it's just not worth
you really waste it well this is our chem campfall this is land that we were going to seed we didn't
so it's sitting fallow right now and you can see there's a whole flush of kosher starting to grow
they're little buttons right now great time to spray them just judging from the the stage
that they're at i'd say i got to start running the sprayer across this land here and probably
the next week or so so it's good to know first kempo operation is going to be up here soon we
got about 2 000 acres of chem following about well more like 2 500. so it's gonna take a few passes
but what's nice about chem follow is i typically can go a little faster a little less gallonage
and uh cover a lot of acres quickly in a day so that's nice
as long as it kills the weeds gophers are out right there little guy just a little gopher
there's our neighbors fields over there looks like spring wheat
and it looks like the same as ours now this little change of plants this is our peas
some of the earlier seeded stuff some of the headlands are some bare areas where
the ground compaction a little drier kind of same thing we're dealing with but overall our peas
have a pretty good stand i'm just looking across i mean it's it's full every every row is full a lot
of peas growing they're just shooting right off i've already sprayed the grass herbicide on them
and they the pre-spray that we had the pre-emergent spray that i put down
it needs water on it right after you spray it and it didn't get it for about three weeks
so it's not going to be as effective at killing broadleafs i try to grow up in this
there could be some broad leafs that might poke up that it's just how it is we can't
deal with it we're just gonna have to see what happens when harvest comes but like this stuff
i sprayed these grasses and they should be dying i don't see any color change on them yet
so i'll keep a closer eye on it but i know that clefthem takes it takes a good week at least to
start seeing a noticeable color difference and then it does fry it down but that's encouraging
it's good to see our peas are doing really good that might be the one crop that we can really
be proud of i guess you could say unless it doesn't get any more rain here now then it's
going to be failure anyways but i'd say the p stand right now is if you were going to do bad
poor fair good and excellent it's at least good and that's good all right now for the winter wheat
yeah i know it's bad there's not much growing here occasional plant here and there this is our worst
field by far we're gonna spray it out it's not gonna go to crop it's gonna get knocked out when
i start chem following this area i'll just spray right through this too and we'll just clean her
up get rid of it because it's not worth taking the crop it's gonna be a weed mess there's not a
lot here so we'll zero it out collect insurance on this it'll pay some you know it's not going
to be excessive but it'll be nice so that's the worst i'll take you guys to the best stuff oh yeah
it's turning that's all cheatgrass we don't like cheatgrass it's starting to go ahead i should have
sprayed it about a week ago more than a week ago two weeks ago and by the time we finally
got to it it was just starting to head out that stuff is just amazing it'll grow regardless but
it's changing color usually we bright green now it's turning into like a purpley brown
it shows the herbicide is working so that took care of that so i'm glad to see that
hopefully those seeds don't uh aren't fertile and they're just controlled that's the goal
but i'm glad i sprayed this it's good see those two green ones right there
yeah they're on our list to move still so we're not done with box babe but bin boom
yet we're getting there we're not done yet we just are playing musical chairs agreements
the last like 15 years has been amazing but we'll get it all done how we want it done and it's going
to be amazing and our kids are going to enjoy all the fruits of the labor that we put in right now
because it'll be a nice vineyard for them oh yeah this is much better this is one of our
better winter wheat looking fields if not the best again there's still some thin spots but
considering conditions i mean just look how far along this is compared to that other
winter wheat i just showed you guys and it's thick here so we'll see what happens but this
could be a crop that we might take to harvest the rest of its stuff the peas hopefully we'll go to
harvest this will go to harvest but the spring wheat and the barley rulings out on that stuff
it's gonna need at least three inches of water between now and july to have a very marginal crop
and if we don't get that it's gonna be about a nothing crop and we're gonna have to spray it all
out so we'll see what happens uh but there is some forecast for next week for a little bit of rain
if we keep getting these little spurts of rain it might be enough just to keep the plants alive
and then hopefully soon here let's get a big rain event that'll dump an inch inch and a half
maybe even two inches in the ground and that'll carry us a couple weeks and that would be amazing
praying for that absolutely praying for that okay there's a job on the farm that uh the person with
the shortest straw gets i don't know if that's good or bad but this is our chicken house
uh we have the chicken pin back there but we kicked them all out because
this floor doesn't sell flush um so anyway we're i'm in here observing and this is my daughter
lisa hi lisa hi all right she's here visiting with her children and husband um for a while so
uh i i'm a little behind on the farm work you're a little bit behind you gotta catch up i got some
catching up to do all right yeah well once a while you're getting in in kind of a ridiculous so uh
you gotta scrape by so anyway yeah so i gotta move a couple things these are the um
roosting ah looks like there's some eggs in there
there's the chickens
and there's the residue
but yeah she's doing a great job so anyway i'm gonna help move a few things out of here um
and then she can be able to finish up the rest of this uh scraping uh she's really a trooper uh so
well a dusty trooper okay floor is now cleaned up now all we got to do is wash and wax it
okay we're gonna paint the floor yeah well it was painted a little rough coat
but uh yeah well this is really something to crow about
you got this done that's awesome all right well good i'm glad we're we got this done i didn't have
to do much appreciate it lisa yeah they're with us for uh a short time and then eventually they'll be
heading over that little pond called the aladdin ocean tiny yeah yep they'll be heading over to the
looking at the czech republic and uh so another four possibly four-year
uh stint over there so um we're gonna miss them especially when well especially when
this is about a year and i look at the recovery yeah i'll come over all right we'll do that
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