......they will be finishing up the rest of the in crop spraying while we get the
ground rigs cooking on the chem-fallow.



And hey GWH! Yup, winter moisture was good, the wheat looks good, the
price of wheat looks even better. Now if we can just get "The Rose Festival
Low" in June, we will be in like Flynn.

Thanks for the information, after I posted that I saw a farmer here using a machine that injects the nitrogen in the ground using a machine with spokes on the wheels spaced every 10 inches or so. I talked to him this morning at church and he said the machine comes from Oregon. Looks like a good way to get it into the ground and not have to rely on rain to do the job. He wasn't having much luck though, he said the holes in the tubes would always plug up. Maybe we have to much clay here for it to work like it should. I'll try to get a picture.
Jim

I really enjoy the pictures 98j gives us. We have sprayed 28 percent on dryland that we pastured and the irrigated wheat. Some people have rigged up rolling cutters with NH3 knives to top dress wheat. None around here. Have started applying Atrazine and round up to wheat stubble that we will plant to grain sorghum. We get to buy high priced diesel again. Grain prices are better, so maybe we can absorb the higher production costs, Darrol

Great pictures, especially for someone from a part of the country with a rather limited horizon from most places.

What is anyhydrous and N-sol costing this year? We took delivery of the last load of NH3 for the year yesterday am. Probably will finish up with ammonium nitrate or other granular form so as not to be stuck with a part of a tank of ammonia.

I believe until the ethanol producers get the cellulose to alcohol process figured out, starch in any form will be short and grain prices will be good. It sure has had an impact on the dairy industry. We had enough corn silage from last year's crop, but many of those who buy all their feed got hit hard. Not much way to pass on the cost to the consumer for the dairy industry.

"Jim wrote:

Thanks for the information, after I posted that I saw a farmer here using a machine that injects the nitrogen in the ground using a machine with spokes on the wheels spaced every 10 inches or so. I talked to him this morning at church and he said the machine comes from Oregon. Looks like a good way to get it into the ground and not have to rely on rain to do the job. He wasn't having much luck though, he said the holes in the tubes would always plug up. Maybe we have to much clay here for it to work like it should. I'll try to get a picture.
Jim

Yo Jim! Do you mean a spoke injector.....like the one we have parked over in the
corner?



This is a pretty crummy scan.....I have some better ones somewhere....
might take a while to find

We didn't have too much trouble with the spokes plugging.....our problem is that
we couldn't get on the ground early enough to make it work like we wanted it.
We went to a liquid system on the no til drill.....if we top dress early ( like Feb)
then we go on by air.

98j----

Glad to see you survived the winter----looking forward to some more great photos from you this spring.

So far----we are having an early spring here in the Delta. Lots of corn up with a good start up on soybeans having been planted. Temps up in the high 70's and low 80's recently----right now we are dry as a bone----don't believe we've had any rainfall during the month of March (normally a wet month here). Already see some irrigation taking place on corn----even saw a pivot running on spring wheat (highly unusual).

Keep us posted----its always interesting to see what's going on in a different area (have never seen a cherry orchard in my life---thanks) .

Delta Dirt

98j,
yep it looks a lot like the one in your picture,

From time to time I am asked 'why such a big tractor on a light load such as
a sprayer?' .....well, here is why....along this edge, you wouldn't
want the sprayer pushing you around....



....this is right along US 197, so any screwup's here and EVERBODY is going to
know about it!


The powershift on the 65B is great for deals like this....when it starts to look
alittle too steep, it's easy to pull her down a notch and let the engine help hold
things back.