We cut 1500 acres of wheat---cutting about 100 acres a day IF we don't break down, and this year we broke down a lot. My old combine is now classified as obsolite and it's getting harder to get parts for her. One breakdown sent us to Dallas (4 hr trip one day) to get parts, so I can see a newer combine in the future.
Thank goodness for boys who can repair whatever Mom tears up. I took a corner a little too sharp and hit a terrace. Did a little bending on some metal parts and took a welder to put it back in place. Poor Troy. It was a standing joke "what is Mom going to tear up today".
No, we're not done either. A rain shower came through Saturday evening and we had to stop. Hopfully we'll get done in the next few days and this harvest will be history. Next year will be better or at least we hope so.
Thank goodness for boys who can repair whatever Mom tears up. I took a corner a little too sharp and hit a terrace. Did a little bending on some metal parts and took a welder to put it back in place. Poor Troy. It was a standing joke "what is Mom going to tear up today".
No, we're not done either. A rain shower came through Saturday evening and we had to stop. Hopfully we'll get done in the next few days and this harvest will be history. Next year will be better or at least we hope so.
9 comments:
I'm so sorry for your bad year. City dwellers don't understand what it's like to be at the mercy of Mother Nature for your livlihood.
Sorry it was a bad year for y'all too. there was NO dryland wheat here and very few made anything on irrigated. All comes down to the winter with no rain or snow, again.
I don't understand much about crop yield, but I DO occasionally listen to the Farm Reports and I DO remember the yeilds here were a LOT more than Oklahoma - a great difference. You had a lot of rain/storms, didn't you?
My, my - you drive those things? What a gal! My hat is off to you. 8-))
Sat. I left PBS on all day and ended up listening to the market report. All I could think was where would we be without the farms and farmers and what a tough time they can have. Thanks for hangin' in there good years and bad. BTW, that is awesome that you can drive those big machines. It's all I can do to drive our standard shift car.
maybe you could retire with the header.........lol.......shitty harvest are no good.......
Corn isn't much better. We were down in the St. Louis area and overheard a group of farmers at a local coffee stop talking about how some were on their FOURTH planting becuase the heavy rains had washed fields out. That was a month ago -- corn is coming up around here, but it's sickly looking. "Knee high by 4th of July" -- not hardly this year.
Love the pics, and think that you do a great job driving them at all, I draw the line at the tractor!! Pleased the insurance slightly compensates. So, what was the end result yield wise, DH likes my international cropping reports!
I'm having a giveaway, lots of machinery cards in the quilt card mix! Tracey
Our first cutting of hay was less than half of what we normally get. I hope we were the exception. Seems like other areas did better than we did.
It is what it is... fishing and farming... 2 occupations that are in my family and both are hard because you just never know what you are going to end up with - makes it hard to come up with a budget, that is for sure. We always just figure rock bottom and it only can go up from there! My brother had to cut a few feet off the back of his boat 1 year when the govt. changed the size of boat allowed to fish under a certain license and he wasn't going to give up the license! Phooey that you are having trouble getting parts for your machinery... double phooey actually. So, it is done for the year.
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