TID BITS

[Hobbyfarmer]

it's starting to "rain" leaves here this morning. 29 to 31° here for 8 hrs last night. The Mulberies and Walnut trees are shedding leaves as the sun hits them this morning.

Gonna be go time on the beans in a day or so. Hearing reports of 15 to 25bu beans that have been done in this area. Very small seed size. Hear of most corn between Lincoln and Omaha Nebraska at 100 and down.

This should fix my yellow stemmed and green beans areas out in the fields. 

[Hobbyfarmer]

nice overnight run up.

Quite the escalation in Ukraine war.

Very few places with above last year's yields corn or beans.

Way bigger areas with lessor yields

Winter wheat areas a dry powdery disaster as far as getting a crop planted and established.

[roarintiger1]

Most of the beans in my area will be ready to harvest within a week.  Some are off already, but way behind normal. Some corn being taken off by guys waiting on their beans to ripen.  A frost over the weekend will speed things up.  Guys that had beautiful double crop beans (perhaps going to make in the 40's......yes, they looked that good.)  will now be nothing more than a great cover crop to plow down.  The beans and corn that I have harvested here are pretty good.  But probably not a record.  

I called this morning to get a propane fillup.  I didn't even ask the price........didn't want to ruin my day.  I learned my lesson last week when I filled the diesel tanks.  

[Hobbyfarmer]

Harvest has started at my place. (Beans)

First field planted last spring, edge needed more time.

Mid 40's . I'm sure I've got quite a % of my acres that will start with a 3 but they aren't quite ready yet.

7 to 8 miles north mid 50's

Local train loader texted... bring in the beans we are starting our outside pile. Whoopty doo.

I'm gonna start a pile in a bin at my place and retain options on where and when...

When beans were up nicely this AM the bean plant about doubled their negative basis, as the day wore on and the CBOT price came down they kept their new negative basis so there was a net loss for the day on the bean side. Oh joy.

On the bright side got done running the rye I had orders for through the fanning mill this forenoon. 

[Hobbyfarmer]

Tree coloring is hitting it's peak here.

Buzzard numbers are falling, less everyday .

[sw363535]

Hobby I bet that river is a great home for a vulture........ are they also seasonally migratory?

[Hobbyfarmer]

Yes, around the 15th of this month they are gone. Ours are the red headed Turkey buzzards.

Down around Branson Mo and especially Eureka Springs Ark, theirs are the black headed one's.

They range clear to South America.

[sw363535]

Don't know if you saw it or not ........... there was a nod, a smile and the glow that comes with learning something new........ all intended to be a "thank you"...... I am a product of the television/movie culture where the buzzards show up in the far reaches of a western desert with a taste for European settlers who ran out of water two episodes back.  The place where no man should visit or go...... unless he is a homesteader and came here on one of the three days with a dew when the wind wasn't blowing.