We stayed busy the last couple of weeks, working outside whenever possible and inside when we didn’t have that option. Who would have thought we would have 70-degree weather in the first part of March?
The soybean planter is done and out of the shop. It should be ready to go. I even ”planted” three short passes beside the shop last week! We’ll see how they grow. Yeah, I put a little seed in the planter to test it out and wanted to get it empty again. It was too wet to be out there, and I didn’t change the depth from wheat to soybeans until the last pass. We also changed the depth stops on the trash wipers and wanted to see how it looked. You wouldn’t think it, but the washboard effect from the material wiped out from in front of the rows gets a little annoying while driving tracked machines. We’re trying to smooth things out while still keeping the seed trench clean.
Time to cut back
We had several days to clean up all the messes from cutting back overgrown woods, fence rows and ditch banks. We can push the brush into a corner of the woods in many places but in a couple of fields we had to pile and burn the debris.
I treated several lines of tree stumps, hoping they won’t re-grow. When a second-hand pump sprayer quit working on Tuesday I called it a day. I’ll find another way to get the rest of them treated. The stumps are pretty thick in some places.
We still have one more farm to clean up before we make any more messes. We’re probably about done with that project for this year.
Rain fell too quickly
Storms went through this week. We were just a county away from an EF2 tornado. The storm did a lot of damage, including destroying a solar farm. What a mess that would be to clean up!
A lot of rain also fell in the area. Many ditches and rivers are out of their banks. I’m not sure how much rainfall went toward soil recharge and how much ran off.