End of spring/Start of summer work

[mnjosh]

Soybean planting this year started slightly earlier than the last several years. We started about May 11 and finished on May 19. We plant both conventionally with a grain drill and no till.

We had the drill hooked up to the 9700.









Even the small farmer can have GPS.


No till planting was done with our TW 10 and corn planter.






This spring at a consignment auction, Dad bought a sprayer and our first round baler. The sprayer is a Demco 500 gallon with 50 ft booms. This is also our first sprayer with electric controls. It came with a Micro Trak MT3000 controler.


The baler is a John Deere 410. That's right, we have something that is John Deere. It is a small older baler, but it will serve the purpose.




Thanks for looking.

[70ds]

Nice pics. 410s are good old balers. We have a 510. If I could have found a 410 when we were looking I would have got one. The 4 foot bales are a little easier to handle with our old tractors.

[putsie]

Really enjoy seeing your pics of your operation. What size is your IH 620's? 2x10? We have a single 12' here that used to plant the odd seed plot back when the discers were used for everything else, but not much other than that.

[duplin97]

Really enjoy seeing these Fords still in the fields. Also If you wouldn't mine telling, how many acres do you guys farm?

[mnjosh]

Jun 16, 2012 21:28:00 GMT -5 70ds said:

Nice pics. 410s are good old balers. We have a 510. If I could have found a 410 when we were looking I would have got one. The 4 foot bales are a little easier to handle with our old tractors.

That's the same reasoning we used too. We've had some 6 x 5's made by a 605 Vermeer once, they were a very well made bale, but the 5000 worked hard to move them. You couldn't roll the bucket back on it's own.

[mnjosh]

Jun 17, 2012 6:33:13 GMT -5 putsie said:

Really enjoy seeing your pics of your operation. What size is your IH 620's? 2x10? We have a single 12' here that used to plant the odd seed plot back when the discers were used for everything else, but not much other than that.

They are 2 x 8's. We originally had a single 14 ft, but it was wearing out and parts are getting kinda spendy. Dad found a neighbor that had this drill unused in a shed for about 6-7 years at a reasonable price. It was actually three 8 footers hooked together, but the TW 10 can't pull all that and we don't have a drill transport. Plus now we have spare parts.

[mnjosh]

Jun 17, 2012 17:43:37 GMT -5 duplin97 said:

Really enjoy seeing these Fords still in the fields. Also If you wouldn't mine telling, how many acres do you guys farm?

We're just a small time operation of about 450 acres.