Really Turning Now

The crops are really turning here.  I see my 3.7 food grade beans planted May 21 will be ready to harvest by the end of the month.  I need to get ready for that and get my help lined up.

I inspected a field of food grade soybeans yesterday.  They have to have 70% leaf drop for inspection and they were more like 90 plus percent.  Sable enjoyed running through the beans with no weeds in them.

If I can get my first beans off by then, do I plant wheat on that farm?  You know I like wheat because it throws the pests out of sync with nature because wheat is a minor crop in this region.  I can control Marestail and other serious pests more easily in wheat.

If I plant wheat, I need to get seed ordered now.  I've seen a lot of high yields and a lot of good varieties the last two crops, so which one should I choose?  Thankfully, I have a seed neighbor who raised a good crop of a brand new wheat from Ohio Certified Seed called Lion.  I know I can get that seed at the last minute but I have let him know already.

It may be more important for me to make the effort to spread Cal Phos or soft rock phosphate on my fields.  I could do that after the wheat is planted.  It costs $300 a ton just to get it here so it is a long term investment.  I am hoping potash comes down in price but I don't think so.  I think the Russian potash deal was over blown.

Tonight is Bruce Goodwin's Pioneer Field Day on SR 28.  He always does a great job and tells it like it is.  He is the CCA go to guy around Pleasant Plain, Ohio.  I always laugh at Pleasant Plain because the original name was Plumsock.  One of the original settlers got off the train and sunk to his socks so he named it Plumsock.

I have to include this picture of little Joshua.  Remember him asleep on the seed bags?  I think he left some magic dust where he was sleeping!

You have a great day, "ya hear?"

Ed Winkle