My first crop report of 2013- updated

Saturday afternoon Garry out cultivating one of the new rented pieces

 This field is about 155 acres I think, there will be 5 hecacres of sunflowers, 5 (about 12 acres) of prosso millet sudangrass and the rest in (about 120 acres) ucorn, they need to spread some fertilizer on it so it can be planted this week. They have hired Vitaly to plant it.
Turns out he rented them the planter again, it was planted on Friday and Saturday.
Vitaly told Garry he'd rate his wheat field in the next photo with a 4 out of 5. There are a lot of worse looking ones. The smaller, closer to the village field (the one the geese were in last fall) will be chopped along with the alfalfa for silage in the coming weeks, maybe early May.

Garry is happy with his wheat field, this one will be grain and straw

close up wheat

The older alfalfa field is growing

Garry says its sweet to eat

 Garry says this small herd of cows were grazed all winter from the village of Ma-ros-nik-ca (its one farmer, not th village herd) Our village herd went out this weekend, photos to come.

Greening up, cows on the road!

Barley coming up near Marosnikca

Last year's new seedingof alfalfa looks great across the highway

Looks like lots of hay to make first cut!

The barley and a new seeding of alfalfa were planted the week Garry was gone, it was planted "between rain showers" by someone else, maybe Vitaly's guy and they wanted to do it while the planter was set up for it (like the corn this week) so the field looks rough and chunky, we'll see if it amounts to anything. Garry tells me it looks pretty good when he checked on Friday.

 Using borrowed or rented equipment from other farmers or custom work when they want to do do it is not ideal, but we may have more acres to farm this year, but not enough to purchase a full line of equipment. The spraying will be custom done from Vitaly this year, too. Garry looked at buying an inexpensive sprayer, but didn't think it was made well enough to buy.