Fall harvest

[dean nelson]

So what everyone seeing for crop maturity? Field by my place will be ready in a week or so especially if we stop getting an inch of rain every three days. Strangely enough haven't seen any geese flying yet but did see a brood of this year's mallards up a going last week.

 

[Kickemup]

Most fields are still 3 weeks out but there is a couple barley fields and winter wheat fields that should be down within a week.

 

[Davy Crockett]

looks like some pretty good crops out there this year, I saw some barley or possibly winter wheat had been taken off and the straw was baled North of Carrington a week ago and a few barley fields were pretty ripe, I thought to myself a couple more days of hot dry weather and it will be ready to go but it's been cool and rainy every since. Further north along the border things are still green and filling out nicely with all this rain.

 

[LBrandt]

Wheat and barley turning nicely some should be going down this week. Corn is tasseling and I have even seen some setting silk. Garden is starting to roll big time, cukes, greenbeans, onions, potatoes, lettuce all ready and producing well. Tomatoes, peppers, squash, melons are all setting fruit. Going to trim back the melons and squash, I can only give away so much. My sweet corn is waist high, and ready for some side dressing of fertilizer. I plant corn so it should be ready labor-day for canning. Once the tomatoes are ready the wife and I will start our Saturday assisted living runs with a good supply of everything. Maybe get a chance to wet a line too.

 

[Trip McNeely]

a few barley fields around here should be gone within a week or so. uncle in sw nd said 14 days til they roll the grain. that was a week ago. peas are starting to turn. weather this week is 90s and dry. should really get things turned up. cant wait to smell the harvest in the air again. means i made it through another off-season.

 

[dean nelson]

Yeah the field by my place that's about ready is spring wheat that kinda why it got my attention since this is about as early as I've seen spring wheat go. Corn down in the same area is going to tassel any day now and with heat trip mentioned everything is going to go nuts this week and we will likely be seeing geese heading out to feed in the near future.

On a side note look like a good year for minature apricots. The two trees in the folks yard are having a good year which is spotty for them.

 

[Joe]

Summer is pretty much all down hill from here. Next weekend is the state fair, in two weeks we start harvesting, in three weeks the NFL preseason starts, in under 4 weeks the sun starts setting before 9 pm, in 5 weeks school starts, in 6 weeks the sun rises after 7am, in 7 weeks bow season starts, in 8 weeks we find out that the Vikings management did not address any major holes during the offseason and January is wide open for ice fishing...

 

[USMCDI]

I tried some of my barley already it was 18 so I'll be grinding by Tuesday if it stays windy. 13.5 is the magic number.

 

[Trip McNeely]

I tried some of my barley already it was 18 so I'll be grinding by Tuesday if it stays windy. 13.5 is the magic number.

let me know if you need a hand scaring ducks ir geese outta them barley fields

 

[jdinny]

dean, i was talking with one of the refuge managers up at Audubon and he said last week he was watching the young ones flying already. this was last Wednesday when i spoke with him. i have seen 2-3 oat fields cut and bailed already. there will be barley down by the end of the week/early next week for sure.

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spoke with a famer from the max area said they will start the week of the state fair

 

[dean nelson]

Yeah figured some of the honkers had to be up soon. Just can't remember a time where I saw baby ducks up flying this early. They were sitting on our beach when I came back to shore a little bit ago. These guys started flying going on a week ago now.

 

[GSIOUXO]

Saw two groups of ducks this morning on edge of Highway 2 on way to Stanley….both bunches of little ones weren't any bigger than a small fist….

 

[USMCDI]

let me know if you need a hand scaring ducks ir geese outta them barley fields

I'm not spraying them out after harvest so by October there should be a bloodbath in those fields, it was ridiculous last year, they wouldn't leave.

 

[svnmag]

I'd be a whisky making fool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwpqxuvxX9k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q2oQK8vpZE

 

[Trip McNeely]

I'm not spraying them out after harvest so by October there should be a bloodbath in those fields, it was ridiculous last year, they wouldn't leave.

ill bring the beer. name your flavor and im there. i pre-stock blue yum yums so im ready at a moments notice :;:thumbsup

 

[jdinny]

on my ride home from church yesterday morning watched a momma pheasant so instinctively park her clutch of maybe 6-8 chicks in the middle of 80th just north of the county shop. and i was pretty surprised when they all took off flying and quite well i may add. only the 2nd batch ive seen in my area. not sure if some storms got em or if there hanging in the endless sea of corn fields off 80th st around the county shop.

 

[dean nelson]

Yeah those little pheasants and turkeys can fly at just a few days old. Once flushed two hen turkeys and their broods out of knee high grass right at my feet down at McLean bottoms well bow fishing. Took my hart a couple mins to calm down from that one. I also once killed off most of a brood of pheasants when they flushed in front of me as I walked out to the spillway at sweetbrier. Poor little buggers mom flew them straight across 94 and they got smoked by cars going east and west.

 

[DirtyMike]

My peas and beans look like hot garbage. Half the garden was mowed down by peter rabbit before I could get some sort of deterrent. I think I'm going to turn the garden into a shed.

I did see quite a few combines working on my way out to Montana. I couldn't tell you what they were working as I am a city slicker. This hot, dry week should round out a few crops I presume.

 

[jdinny]

My peas and beans look like hot garbage. Half the garden was mowed down by peter rabbit before I could get some sort of deterrent. I think I'm going to turn the garden into a shed.

I did see quite a few combines working on my way out to Montana. I couldn't tell you what they were working as I am a city slicker. This hot, dry week should round out a few crops I presume.

dont give in to freaking peter cotton tail.......i think a better alternative would be one of those scoped .17 pellet guns, maybe slit a little hole in the screen of a window ( easy fix) sit down with some blue yums yums and you know the rest...

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i thought for sure im taking out half the clutch. i wasnt about to swurve, i was gonna slowly jog it left and or Right but she squatted them literally mid road. thought bonny was gonna get some blood but to my suprise they flew and flew and flew dam near to 71st.

 

[DirtyMike]

I have a pretty good size tree in my back yard that has the ability to hold a tree stand. I'm thinking my bow is going to get used soon.