Combines Harvest Over

You have no other crops to harvestIJ

Your yields seemed to be fairly goodIJ We're kind of thinking in the same range. We are EXTREMElY dry and it has been EXTREMElY hot this past weekend. The wheat here in SW NE just across the border from KS is most likely a week away. Ripening uneven with some just drying up. Our Jagger looks good and will be the first to go out. Had one field get at least 50% damage from hail a few days ago. A lot more fields in the area were 100% gone. It seems if it rains...it hails. I'll keep you posted on our harvest later.

When you guys get hail, you really get hail. My son was driving his Expedition through NE last week and a fast moving hailstorm did a number on it. It never fails when a guy buys a new car something like that will happen. I am praying for hail here so I can sell the lousy crop to the hail insurance company. Corn is barely a foot high and beans are from cotyledon to first trifoliate. Tom in MN The state where nothing is allowed.

No other crops. All hard red winter wheat. Too hot and dry through summer to get anything else up. Just wheat and cattle. Sounds simple to some of these guys who are harvesting one crop while putting another one in. That's the way we do it here though. Some guys are trying cotton. Their ground is blowing as we speak. They can't get it stopped. Wind has been 20mph out of South for a week now. OKfarmer

Tom, NE has really been ripped by storms. Had some bad ones last year, also. I hear you on hoping for the storms to take out the crop. That happened last year and we also had a drought. Hailed out the irrigated corn before we had much irrigation expense into it, got the insurance then a disaster payment this winter. Sure beat farming! It's sad when econonmic conditions are so bad that a guy would rather lose his crop to the weather.

I have a friend in ND who has gone back to a wheat_fallow rotation to save moisture. Is there much idled land where you areIJ Tom in MN

No idle land at all. Everything in production. We will sometimes graze out some wheat if we have too many cattle or the price is high on cattle. If we do that we will destroy it around May 1. The graze out option also works well to clean land up, and we use the graze-out option for those purposes too. There is a quarter if milo 4 miles up the road from me that does look pretty good. It's only 10 -14 inches tall right now, and there is a lot of hot weather ahead. We also have a fair amount of alfalfa around. We will get 6 - 10 cuttings. Sometimes more, sometimes less.

10 cuttings of alfalfaIJ How often do you cut thatIJ Every 2 weeksIJ

That would be rare, but it has happened. like this year it started off unseasonably warm and wet in March. First cutting came off a good 3 weeks before the norm. So, we're set up for a pretty good year. Possibly 7 cuttings. Maybe 8. Most alfalfa around here is grown in low sub-irrigated areas and will grow throughmost of the summer. It's the truth...honest!

I believe you. I know in some places in Arizona and California that they put up 11 cuttings per year. Their slow time is in the summer when it is hot and the alfalfa slows down a little. Allit takes is water and a long growing season. I was wondering how you were getting 8 cuttings per year yet being as dry as you are. But the subirrigation explains that. We are about a week away from harvest. Wheat is drying up way too fast...quality is going to be poor I'm afraid.