Dad and I don’t have a lot of pictures together. Most are like this. We’re busy and usually in different places, but we are continuing to build a legacy and this is what it takes.
Cheated on. Divorced. Lost 90% of my irrigated ground. Lost friends and family. The list of nonsense is long and distinguished.
Layne Staley said “Ain’t found a way to kill me yet”
30 sucked. 31 is already better.
Yesterday dad was frustrated at one of the shop benches and how it was super messy. We cleaned it off. Took most of the afternoon.
Today I walked into the shop and found dad dissembling a broken Keurig and saving things out of it that “we might need someday”
I walked back out.
In the year of our lord 2024 there are still folks in ag that feel like “You can’t plant corn in a straight line without GPS” is a credible insult.
I grew up cultivating corn/soybeans behind you no GPS having asses. You couldn’t plant straight either.
A year ago things were crashing down all around me. In Dec I had the gun in my hand and wanted to end it, ND’d into the floor of the house. Been on an upward trend since.
It gets better. You’re can overcome. When your backs against the wall, forward is the only way out.
This dude is for sure a hit man back home. Like this is the last thing you see before the briefcase with biological weapon plans meant for the Iranians is relieved from your person.
I was bummed that I wasn't going to get to share the excitement of this season with anyone. What I'm discovering is how proud I am of myself and the folks that actually stuck around. Better times lay ahead. Its time to chase them.
“These road closures are stupid and so are the meteorologists that put out these blizzard warnings. Totally ruined Christmas.”
Get out and run the jaws next time it’s like this and med evac some child that probably won’t make it to the hospital.
Sit down. Shut up.
Around a half dozen of my buddies, most of which were seemingly happily married, have all lost their marriages in the last year or two. Mostly to affairs and nonsensical reasons.
Check on your buddies
#mensmentalhealth
Any other millennials like me see stuff like this and just kinda don't care anymore? Like dude, we've lived through how many major historical things before we turned 30?
Just super numb and just go lol mkay bro, do it. Do it, Vlad. We do not care.
I'll probably see the end of irrigation in my little neck of the woods. But it's not because the holes are going dry. It's because of litigation and criminal governments.
Things won't improve in this country till people are ready to fight in places other than voting booths.
At least I got my harvest screw up out of the way before harvest this time 👍🏼 one of those days I should have just stayed at the house. There’s a second part to this that I’m less proud of.
Everything is fixable.
Day 2 Stop 11. Barton County, Kansas. West of Ellinwood. Early drought stress, flower stage. I sampled this field last year and it was surely abandoned. It appears to have been seeded into wheat stubble. A bit a frost around the end rows. Aphid pressure.
81 yield est.
Prediction: we will receive very little moisture between now and September and wheat will struggle for the fifth consecutive fall to establish a stand. Ground will blow this winter.
Three year old 16K01 Golden Harvest planted on dryland at 18.5K
Just got multiple inches of rain, with tassels pushing out and favorable pollinating temperatures in the 14 day.
Something about a blind pig and truffles.
Lolololol
Some of the early corn here is tasseling with more rain in the forecast. There’s a chance there could be some monster dryland corn in SC/SW KS. Hasn’t had a bad day yet.
600s look big. Getting this rig put together for the planter, anyone with a newer 8R cab use the rail at the top of the cab to mount stuff or what’s your solutions for mounting monitors and stuff?
Pretty impressed with this Stihl electric trimmer. Stuff was all 4-5ft tall. Two batteries and 45 minutes. Come back tomorrow with a broom for the pad and another touch up pass.
Everyone can appreciate a trimmed pivot point.
@RyanSpeer2
Hang on for far too long. Fantasy land prices when they want to sell/lease land. Will tell you one thing then run down the road to the local BTO and do some back handed deal. At least in my area of the world.
We’ve been blessed with abundant rainfall in the local area lately. And ground is blowing.
Maintaining ground cover and residue is becoming more and more important in SW Kansas and some folks seem to be going backwards.
Everyone around is trying to sample wheat and it’s all wet. It’s also muddy. But we’ve entered the portion of the year where 60+ year olds can’t focus on anything but wheat harvest, let everything else go to hell.
I guess I didn’t catch the wheat harvest bug.
Everyone trying to figure out how to interseed covers into corn. I’ve got a solid stand of henbit under the canopy for no money invested. I’ll never share my secrets.
The Sahara desert is slowly being reforested using a crescent swale technique to retain water and generate small oases of
#biodiversity
that will expand into whole ecosystems.
Another day with quite a few miles around the local four or five counties and there’s very very few pivots running best I can tell. Corn is tasseling. Big win for ground water in an area that has good recharge.
The Significance Behind The Texas Fires
- This Is Another Blow To Our Supply Chain
- Where The Fires Happened Is Where 88% Of Texas Cattle Feed
- The US Is Already Down Roughly 1 Billion Pounds Of American Beef
- These Fires Are Another Win For Foreign Imports
Is it another