OT - What are you doing right now?

nolaegghead

nolaegghead

Ok, mystery solved.  I just talked to Botch for like 20/30 minutes.  He was just taking a break from TV and the internet.  The world wide dumpster fire was just too much, he needed a vacation.

Situation normal, AFU.

SamIAm2

@nolaegghead - don't we all. Thanks for posting this.

GrateEggspectations

We’ll all get the well-deserved, extended break before too long, so I try to appreciate what I have. 

GrateEggspectations

Hey @Ozzie_Isaac, just saw this ad and figured maybe you could save a few piles of green. 

Ozzie_Isaac

GrateEggspectations said:

Hey @Ozzie_Isaac, just saw this ad and figured maybe you could save a few piles of green. 

That is awesome!  Thanks for sharing.  Could definitely use something like that.  Want to clear some land for an arena.

In a former life I operated a D6 on the regular and even D8s, 9s and an 11.

alaskanassasin

@nolaegghead we haven't heard from @ColbyLang since wheat hit $11

Acn

Reviewing a bracket

JohnInCarolina

Acn said:

Reviewing a bracket

seems like hush puppies and corn bread should be on opposite sides of the bracket.  I feel like the anti-breadites have rigged this.   

dbCooper

alaskanassasin said:

@nolaegghead we haven't heard from @ColbyLang since wheat hit $11

@alaskanassasin

Are these conditions good or bad for you?  Around here folks are having troubles finding buyers at current prices.

FarmingPhD

Ozzie_Isaac said:

GrateEggspectations said:

Hey @Ozzie_Isaac, just saw this ad and figured maybe you could save a few piles of green. 

That is awesome!  Thanks for sharing.  Could definitely use something like that.  Want to clear some land for an arena.

In a former life I operated a D6 on the regular and even D8s, 9s and an 11.

Did you by chance spend some time at proving grounds?  Very jealous of getting to run the 9+ category, those machines are amazing.  

SamIAm2

@Ozzie_Isaac - one of my YouTube subscriptions you might enjoy:
https://www.youtube.com/c/letsdig18

WeberWho

Don't ask me how or why as I don't have an answer but I ran across this YouTube channel maybe 6 months back. These guys pan for gold with small remote control construction trucks/tractors. These little RC construction vehicles can run 10K plus. It's crazy but everyone has to have a hobby. 

https://youtu.be/rl3ndbTpztM

ColbyLang

alaskanassasin said:

@nolaegghead we haven't heard from @ColbyLang since wheat hit $11

Still here. Lent is the beginning of our “busy” season. To call it hectic is an understatement. 14-15 hour days here lately

Battleborn

Just saw a video of a tornado going through NOLA. Wishing you guys down there the best. 

nolaegghead

Just dodged it.  Couple people texted me it went right by my shop and house.  I’m at the shop and SWMBO is at home.  Looks like we are fine.

nolaegghead

Some people here aren’t as lucky.

Ozzie_Isaac

@alaskanassasin here is an Amazon driver I pulled out this evening.  First Amazon driver too.

CP92

Trying to decide if I make it the whole day at work. Headed to Savannah, GA  tomorrow for a long weekend. I am notorious for getting antsy the day before any trip and starting vacation a little early. 

Chris

alaskanassasin

dbCooper said:

alaskanassasin said:

@nolaegghead we haven't heard from @ColbyLang since wheat hit $11

@alaskanassasin

Are these conditions good or bad for you?  Around here folks are having troubles finding buyers at current prices.

  I have already contracted about 25% of my wheat.  I read somewhere that some elevators are struggling and taking out bank loans to cover buys.  I don't think that will be the case here because we grow very little wheat in Ohio but, if they can't actually buy it at harvest I will have to stick it in a bin till they can.

   Personally, I don't have very much wheat, I have been custom harvesting for a neighbor for years so the last two years I planted a field of my own. But yes these conditions are favorable, makes me wish I had planted more.

 

alaskanassasin

 For me wheat is a pita.  First you have to plant it in the middle of fall harvest, while we were dealing with army worms, hope it makes it through winter. Good drainage in the spring, once you have a stand going you have to split fertilizer applications, fly on fungicide, scout for bugs. If all that works out and you miss mid summer T storms that can lay it flat, you get to harvest. The optimal harvest window is about 2 days or the test weight starts dropping, Then you deal with straw, whether you chop it, bale it store it, or someone else bales it takes it, that needs to happen very expeditiously in order to get your double crop beans planted. Hope you catch some late summer rains to fill those out and you might have something.

JohnInCarolina

alaskanassasin said:

 For me wheat is a pita.  First you have to plant it in the middle of fall harvest, while we were dealing with army worms, hope it makes it through winter. Good drainage in the spring, once you have a stand going you have to split fertilizer applications, fly on fungicide, scout for bugs. If all that works out and you miss mid summer T storms that can lay it flat, you get to harvest. The optimal harvest window is about 2 days or the test weight starts dropping, Then you deal with straw, whether you chop it, bale it store it, or someone else bales it takes it, that needs to happen very expeditiously in order to get your double crop beans planted. Hope you catch some late summer rains to fill those out and you might have something.

Sounds just like a sour dough starter!

alaskanassasin

The flip side to record crop prices is that everything goes up, rent, inputs, equipment, land prices, fuel, seed, everything.  At some point historically the crop prices will go back down and suck again, and some guys may have over reached, and well to quote Warren Buffet, "only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked."

alaskanassasin

JohnInCarolina said:

alaskanassasin said:

 For me wheat is a pita.  First you have to plant it in the middle of fall harvest, while we were dealing with army worms, hope it makes it through winter. Good drainage in the spring, once you have a stand going you have to split fertilizer applications, fly on fungicide, scout for bugs. If all that works out and you miss mid summer T storms that can lay it flat, you get to harvest. The optimal harvest window is about 2 days or the test weight starts dropping, Then you deal with straw, whether you chop it, bale it store it, or someone else bales it takes it, that needs to happen very expeditiously in order to get your double crop beans planted. Hope you catch some late summer rains to fill those out and you might have something.

Sounds just like a sour dough starter!

 All im saying is, with goats, chickens, ducks, dogs, cats, swmbo, I don't need the neighbors dropping off more things for me to feed. I will take care of bubbles, and if its too much Ill bring them back.

fishlessman

alaskanassasin said:

The flip side to record crop prices is that everything goes up, rent, inputs, equipment, land prices, fuel, seed, everything.  At some point historically the crop prices will go back down and suck again, and some guys may have over reached, and well to quote Warren Buffet, "only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked."

no,no,no, its simple.......You dig a hole, you put a seed in, you put dirt on top, you add water, up comes wheat

JohnInCarolina

alaskanassasin said:

JohnInCarolina said:

alaskanassasin said:

 For me wheat is a pita.  First you have to plant it in the middle of fall harvest, while we were dealing with army worms, hope it makes it through winter. Good drainage in the spring, once you have a stand going you have to split fertilizer applications, fly on fungicide, scout for bugs. If all that works out and you miss mid summer T storms that can lay it flat, you get to harvest. The optimal harvest window is about 2 days or the test weight starts dropping, Then you deal with straw, whether you chop it, bale it store it, or someone else bales it takes it, that needs to happen very expeditiously in order to get your double crop beans planted. Hope you catch some late summer rains to fill those out and you might have something.

Sounds just like a sour dough starter!

 All im saying is, with goats, chickens, ducks, dogs, cats, swmbo, I don't need the neighbors dropping off more things for me to feed. I will take care of bubbles, and if its too much Ill bring them back.

I am just giving you the business, my friend

alaskanassasin

JohnInCarolina said:

alaskanassasin said:

JohnInCarolina said:

alaskanassasin said:

 For me wheat is a pita.  First you have to plant it in the middle of fall harvest, while we were dealing with army worms, hope it makes it through winter. Good drainage in the spring, once you have a stand going you have to split fertilizer applications, fly on fungicide, scout for bugs. If all that works out and you miss mid summer T storms that can lay it flat, you get to harvest. The optimal harvest window is about 2 days or the test weight starts dropping, Then you deal with straw, whether you chop it, bale it store it, or someone else bales it takes it, that needs to happen very expeditiously in order to get your double crop beans planted. Hope you catch some late summer rains to fill those out and you might have something.

Sounds just like a sour dough starter!

 All im saying is, with goats, chickens, ducks, dogs, cats, swmbo, I don't need the neighbors dropping off more things for me to feed. I will take care of bubbles, and if its too much Ill bring them back.

I am just giving you the business, my friend

 Yeah yeah, send me your address, Ill mail it to you with a duck.

JohnInCarolina

alaskanassasin said:

JohnInCarolina said:

alaskanassasin said:

JohnInCarolina said:

alaskanassasin said:

 For me wheat is a pita.  First you have to plant it in the middle of fall harvest, while we were dealing with army worms, hope it makes it through winter. Good drainage in the spring, once you have a stand going you have to split fertilizer applications, fly on fungicide, scout for bugs. If all that works out and you miss mid summer T storms that can lay it flat, you get to harvest. The optimal harvest window is about 2 days or the test weight starts dropping, Then you deal with straw, whether you chop it, bale it store it, or someone else bales it takes it, that needs to happen very expeditiously in order to get your double crop beans planted. Hope you catch some late summer rains to fill those out and you might have something.

Sounds just like a sour dough starter!

 All im saying is, with goats, chickens, ducks, dogs, cats, swmbo, I don't need the neighbors dropping off more things for me to feed. I will take care of bubbles, and if its too much Ill bring them back.

I am just giving you the business, my friend

 Yeah yeah, send me your address, Ill mail it to you with a duck.

As my youngest daughter once told me, if the F-word started with a D it would be a DUCK!

alaskanassasin

JohnInCarolina said:

alaskanassasin said:

JohnInCarolina said:

alaskanassasin said:

JohnInCarolina said:

alaskanassasin said:

 For me wheat is a pita.  First you have to plant it in the middle of fall harvest, while we were dealing with army worms, hope it makes it through winter. Good drainage in the spring, once you have a stand going you have to split fertilizer applications, fly on fungicide, scout for bugs. If all that works out and you miss mid summer T storms that can lay it flat, you get to harvest. The optimal harvest window is about 2 days or the test weight starts dropping, Then you deal with straw, whether you chop it, bale it store it, or someone else bales it takes it, that needs to happen very expeditiously in order to get your double crop beans planted. Hope you catch some late summer rains to fill those out and you might have something.

Sounds just like a sour dough starter!

 All im saying is, with goats, chickens, ducks, dogs, cats, swmbo, I don't need the neighbors dropping off more things for me to feed. I will take care of bubbles, and if its too much Ill bring them back.

I am just giving you the business, my friend

 Yeah yeah, send me your address, Ill mail it to you with a duck.

As my youngest daughter once told me, if the F-word started with a D it would be a DUCK!

 If you have ever raised ducks you might know why.

poster

Shoveling out again. Winter is not giving up