In the Field?

[HuskerGLEANER]

Thought it would be interesting to see how many of you are in the field already. I'm having withdrawls because the snow has finally all just melted and our fields are right on the verge of being drying enough to start doing some work. On top of that we still have to get the electric fence out that is around the fields from winter grazing corn stalks. I'm also really excited to get into the field this year because we have been adding some iron such as an 8 row unverferth strip tiller, a buffalo rolling stalk chopper(this is what I really want to test soon), and for this summer a 2001 New Holland Hw300. I might get a couple pics of each this weekend. But anyways is anyone lucky enough to be doing some field work yet?

[jd3020]

theres still snow in the feilds here but i dont think for long
havent looked at the drill yet but more the one cr9070 with the seive falling to peices
but the biggest problem is the locl co-op was filling the on deisel tank and hit the valve and dumped a bunch of deisel
but ya nobody is in the feilds here yet

[djt14]

we got a good couple inches of snow in the fields and they are calling for more of it soon so i think we can be in half way through April maybe next week if we get no snow but thats pushing it

[Southern]

We been in the fields. Mostly spraying or some early tillage when it wasn't mushy from the rains we had.

[steiger9330]

We haven't done any thing. We closed some tile runs up. It's too wet around here yet. We don't start field work until april because we don't have any tillage and our fertilizer is spread in the fall. Right now we're getting equipment ready and waiting for our new planters to arrive.

[milesmaas]

we got a good month at least

[Chris Taylor]

We need to be top dressing wheat darn soon! Its been in the 60s to 70s. I imagine if the rain will stop this everyother day stuff we could be gettin in here the first of april but apot can happen between now and then. We still have to finish setting up our new planter and GPS system and I have 3 tractors to wax yet

[jwaldrip]

Well we spread some liquid and dry manure this week. Maybe shouldnt have. other guy buried the 4640 with slurry tank bad. had to take the 4440 and pull him out. decided to start pouring as we hooked the chain up.

[putsie]

I'm guessing it'll be a month at best and more realistically 6 weeks yet before we're out. Was hoping to be seeding canola by April 20-25 like last year but I really doubt it'll be before May 1 at the rate it's going. I deep banded fertilizer last fall hoping to get a jump this spring, speeding up the seeding. The plan was to be done seeding this year by early-mid May as my wife and I expecting our first baby around May 18 or so. So much for that idea, snow's hanging around.

[Tomas D.]

not even close.... we still got a foot of snow in the fields in some areas and more on the way.... snow fall warning out right now :/

[treymo]

We're about done with applying fertilizer to wheat. I harrowed about 600 acres 2 weeks ago and have been filling tracks lately.
Trey

[70ds]

I was in the field today. I was filling the gopher getter tracks and knocking down the gopher mounds in the alfalfa.

[hoss]

not here still a ways off and its kinda sad because i wont have much to do...we are hiring a fella to plant our 110 acres of beans and the game plan is to spray all the feilds in the bottoms with round up (everything cept a 22 acre alfalfa field) and then no till it, so there will only be 2 maybe 3 feilds that have any thing done to them and they are only about 20 acres total (tobbacco patches and maybe an old corn field) but im ready to mow hay idk what it is but theres nothin like gettin out there and smellin that fresh cutting!

[bmcpherson]

Been in the feild off and an for about a month down here.

[gmauch]

We have been pretty consistently in the fields around here. We finally finished ripping corn ground and are running the cultipacker over all of it now. We have also been running the harrow and float across the hay fields. Planning on getting the sprayer fired up this week.

[CDC]

started tillage 3 weeks ago gonna start planting in 3 weeks

[farmboy64]

we have started feild cultivating between the rain storms. its been in the 50's to 80's here for 2 weeks now, we hope to start planting the first week of april

[Austin Stewart]

Moved some dirt to fix some terraces and chiseled a field (pictures will come later), got a few more fields that need chiseled and then it will be time to spray fertilizer on the wheat and get the planter ready.

Get to spend spring break cutting down and piling up a dozen huge trees growing in a waterway, should be an interesting if crappy spring break.

[baker2]

we dont normaley see any fields till the 2nd week of april we had 4 inches of rain 2 weeks ago then today theirs a winter mix changing to rain to give us like a half inch of rain the rivers were all flloded a few weeks ago with put a damper on some guys that do the river bottoms first but i did see 3 or 4 fields plowed yesterday that one guy puts sweet corn on he has it in them first fields by no later than the end of april then it gets a white fiber blanket to go over it to act like a green house to have corn reddy for the 4th of july i do see allot of guys getting their equipment reddy to go to work but as far as us we havent done squat and i cant wait till we do so i can get my pumkins in the ground

[dph]

Been in the fields for about a month and a half now. There is already some rice in the ground.