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Post by smsmith on Apr 3, 2021 20:02:30 GMT -6
We were down south of Faribault today. Saw a couple farmers chisel plowing. Trees are at least 10 days ahead of here in breaking dormancy. Lawns are green. My FIL has winter rye on his ground that a neighbor leases. I hadn't seen that before down there. He says it's to keep the soil active. Even those farmers on some of the best ground in the world are coming to understand how important it is to feed the soil (the farmers who lease his 1.5 sections are hogs first, corn second...they are farming dozens of sections)
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Post by Sandbur on Apr 4, 2021 2:04:21 GMT -6
We were down south of Faribault today. Saw a couple farmers chisel plowing. Trees are at least 10 days ahead of here in breaking dormancy. Lawns are green. My FIL has winter rye on his ground that a neighbor leases. I hadn't seen that before down there. He says it's to keep the soil active. Even those farmers on some of the best ground in the world are coming to understand how important it is to feed the soil (the farmers who lease his 1.5 sections are hogs first, corn second...they are farming dozens of sections) Are they adding any turnips or radishes to the CC down there? I saw it on some irrigated edible pea ground down where I used to work. That was lighter soil. Where I live, it is usually just rye.
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Post by biglakebass on Apr 4, 2021 2:37:32 GMT -6
The big town by me has 1000 people, 2 churches and 2 bars. The one thing it doesn't have is a good local restaurant. The bar food in Parkers is not very good and the closest place with good food is Leaf Valley or Urbank. The Urbank joint shut down due to covid. Unless its reopened???
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Post by MoBuckChaser on Apr 4, 2021 4:34:29 GMT -6
We were down south of Faribault today. Saw a couple farmers chisel plowing. Trees are at least 10 days ahead of here in breaking dormancy. Lawns are green. My FIL has winter rye on his ground that a neighbor leases. I hadn't seen that before down there. He says it's to keep the soil active. Even those farmers on some of the best ground in the world are coming to understand how important it is to feed the soil (the farmers who lease his 1.5 sections are hogs first, corn second...they are farming dozens of sections) If the guy has hogs he is farming sections so he has a place to dump 15,000 gal of hog manure water on per acre.
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Post by smsmith on Apr 4, 2021 7:40:29 GMT -6
We were down south of Faribault today. Saw a couple farmers chisel plowing. Trees are at least 10 days ahead of here in breaking dormancy. Lawns are green. My FIL has winter rye on his ground that a neighbor leases. I hadn't seen that before down there. He says it's to keep the soil active. Even those farmers on some of the best ground in the world are coming to understand how important it is to feed the soil (the farmers who lease his 1.5 sections are hogs first, corn second...they are farming dozens of sections) If the guy has hogs he is farming sections so he has a place to dump 15,000 gal of hog manure water on per acre. Yep. They were starting to string hose and booster pumps yesterday. The hog operation is pretty unreal. They feed ice cream and whey (and other stuff too I'm sure) that would have gone to waste otherwise. FIL says they bring in over 20 semi loads of ice cream a week, I think maybe the same amount of whey.
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Post by smsmith on Apr 4, 2021 7:42:05 GMT -6
We were down south of Faribault today. Saw a couple farmers chisel plowing. Trees are at least 10 days ahead of here in breaking dormancy. Lawns are green. My FIL has winter rye on his ground that a neighbor leases. I hadn't seen that before down there. He says it's to keep the soil active. Even those farmers on some of the best ground in the world are coming to understand how important it is to feed the soil (the farmers who lease his 1.5 sections are hogs first, corn second...they are farming dozens of sections) Are they adding any turnips or radishes to the CC down there? I saw it on some irrigated edible pea ground down where I used to work. That was lighter soil. Where I live, it is usually just rye. I didn't see any. I did see a number of fields of rye
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Post by Catscratch on Apr 4, 2021 7:45:16 GMT -6
If the guy has hogs he is farming sections so he has a place to dump 15,000 gal of hog manure water on per acre. Yep. They were starting to string hose and booster pumps yesterday. The hog operation is pretty unreal. They feed ice cream and whey (and other stuff too I'm sure) that would have gone to waste otherwise. FIL says they bring in over 20 semi loads of ice cream a week, I think maybe the same amount of whey. Icecream? Where does someone come up with truck loads of waste icecream?
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Post by smsmith on Apr 4, 2021 7:49:29 GMT -6
Yep. They were starting to string hose and booster pumps yesterday. The hog operation is pretty unreal. They feed ice cream and whey (and other stuff too I'm sure) that would have gone to waste otherwise. FIL says they bring in over 20 semi loads of ice cream a week, I think maybe the same amount of whey. Icecream? Where does someone come up with truck loads of waste icecream? I don't know. I guess the hog operation has the ability to keep it refrigerated once it's unloaded. I assume it comes in refrigerated, but in a "slurry" My FIL said the whey comes in from a Frito Lay factory in Iowa. The hog guys told him that Frito Lay would have had to pay to have the stuff buried, so all the hog operation pays for is trucking costs.
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Post by Foggy on Apr 4, 2021 12:37:33 GMT -6
Icecream? Where does someone come up with truck loads of waste icecream? I don't know. I guess the hog operation has the ability to keep it refrigerated once it's unloaded. I assume it comes in refrigerated, but in a "slurry" My FIL said the whey comes in from a Frito Lay factory in Iowa. The hog guys told him that Frito Lay would have had to pay to have the stuff buried, so all the hog operation pays for is trucking costs. In my 20's I worked for a testing lab that did lots of powdered milk and cheese testing. The drying plants would send all kinds of dried product to be tested - basically a few ounces of product in a bag. They would accumulate about a pickup load per week of the samples. I made arrangements for my father-in-law to pick this stuff up. He would cut open the bags and fed it to his hogs and fertilized his garden and grew some huge pumpkins with this stuff. He even fed some of his prized huge pumpkins with an IV setup he made.....by inserting the needle in the stem......and fed the pumpkin milk. Fed lots of livestock on his farm with the stuff mixed into feeds or mixed it with water. Free cheap protein is good. They finally cut him off of this as they were concerned about liability if the samples had salmonella os some such thing.
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Post by biglakebass on Apr 4, 2021 19:55:16 GMT -6
Back to weather. We had ice out today and first docks in the lake. Took the boat out. hell yea. what an absolutely beautiful day!!!!!!!! Wow.
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Post by Foggy on Apr 4, 2021 20:44:28 GMT -6
I see the ice is going out of Gulll Lake at Nisswa. Earliest ice-out I have seen (on my camera) since living there. It was 98 degrees here in OZ today. FORE!
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Post by kabic on Apr 4, 2021 22:24:41 GMT -6
Dry, dry, dry.
Did a little tilling, I sent up a dust cloud.
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Post by Bwoods11 on Apr 5, 2021 18:27:23 GMT -6
Pontoons are out on Lake Minnewaska 81 today !
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Post by biglakebass on Apr 5, 2021 18:40:16 GMT -6
Planting fields of taters in big lake today.
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Post by Sandbur on Apr 5, 2021 20:12:42 GMT -6
Planting fields of taters in big lake today. I beat ‘em. I planted potatoes on Saturday, all 6 hills.
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