The IH truck in the pictures is a 3406B, dynoed at 470 hp. The KW is a 310 hp set up, quite a bit of difference when slugging up some of these roads, but I like the torque they have compared to the Cummins in the other truck. Going to start shredding stubble in a couple of days--fall is here, already.

Much needed rain has finally arrived this week. We started seeding wheat on summerfallow on the 20th of Sept. and finished up on the legume ground this Monday. There was not enough rain to germinate the recrop until the past couple days rain. This should also be enough to get going on fall tillage, when our ground is dry it breaks up into huge clods so the only fall tillage we have done was preparing to seed and to dry plow one field to control quack grass.

Seeded Westbred 528 and ORCF 102 this fall. Also seeded morton winter lentils. We put down 90lbs/acre wheat seed with 75-100 lbs of 11-52 fertilizer.

Moisture was about 2 inches deep on the summerfallow.

Hi Guys, Long time no post. Glad harvest went well, as always great pics NIF and Bleedinred. No harvest pics this year, nothing worth taking a picture of. Spring barley did allright for Asotin Co. 3800 lbs on recrop with a 55lb Test weight, Winter wheat was a bust we got hit with C-stripe real bad, if you've never had C-stripe , you don't want it. Oh well we'll try it again next year.

Done seeding the 25 of Sept. Seeded Zerpha and Legacy mix into summer fallow, these are both Soft white wheats that handled the C-stripe better than any thing else in our Varity plots. They will probably get rust but at least you can spray for that.

Rained all day yesterday and most of the night, still raining this morning. Should make it plow better.

NIF nice looking truck I am jealous.

Bleedinred how do like that 9500SH, I like my 9400 but there are places that I wish I had a leveler.

BP

NIF - again thanks for the shots.

On some of the very steep ground I notice that there is a fair amount of crab angle with the implement behind the tractor (drifting off downhill) and notice some skips in the growing crop. I suppose someone good on the levers or steering wheel with experience can do a good job without misses. Kinda tricky doing a good job without misses going around a curve. Crab steering wheels on the implement would be an idea.

That has always amazed me. For some reason you have a sixth sense where the wheels are. Many times I remember making turns on a side hill and moving the cat either toward or away from the mark then looking back and the wheel would be exactly where it should be. This was very important especially seeding cause you would not want evidence of poor cat skinning to be evident all year.

Also there wern't many of us that could take a 9U from third to 2nd without stopping and without a gear clash either. If you could not make that shift then you were required to stop at the bottom so you could remain in the same gear all the way to the next corner.

Ah the memories!!

On edit: There are hitches built over the years to help take care of the sidehill drift. I have never been around one so I don't know how good they work, maybe some else can step in and comment.

Bruce- sorry to hear about your wheat. C-stripe has never been much of a problem on our place, it mostly affects wheat that is planted early and gets really big in the fall and is especially bad in a strictly cereal rotation. Back when some people used to do wheat-fallow here C-stripe became a problem for them. Yield potential and cold hardiness are maximized with early seeding but C-stripe and snowmold become big problems.

Bruce, the 9500SHs work for most of the hills around here if you don't mind a little lean. At 17% they don't take the place of 45% levelers but are much better for operator comfort and wrenching. The 6622s cut the steep stuff and don't get very many hours anymore. I did the trucking again this year and spent only a few days in a harvester.

Had heard about the rust down there, what variety of SW got hit bad?

The rain is welcome, especially after disk ripping the past two days, very hard boulders of dirt and hard on the machine. The D6C chugged along in 3rd and had all sorts of steam, though. Pretty impressed with its performance. Looks like we'll start seeding when it gets dry enough.

Thanks Bleedinred I think 17 percent would work for most of the ground around here. Just about all the soft whites got rust around here to some degree. I made a couple rounds on the Legacy wheat spraying broadleafs early, without fungicide, then got rained out for a couple weeks. When I went back in I added Tilt and Quadris (fungicides) to the mix, Later on you could really see the line where the rust was starting in the edge but not on the other, I ended up spraying that stuff twice. Some guys sprayed three times, spendy. The C-stripe was so bad in the ORCF-102 that it wasn't worth spraying for rust.

BP

About the only soft white varieties with really good rust resistance this year were Madsen and then Cara club wheat. This fall there was supposedly more Madsen seed ordered from our coop than there has been in about 10 years. It historically doesn't yield so well up here but it holds up all right further down the ridge they say. Xerpha, the AP varieties, Tubbs, and Lambert all had rust really bad. Westbred 528, ORCF 102, and Brundage 96 had rust but not severe.