While we were trying to figure out where the picnic was on Thursday, we ended up going on a tour of some of the fields, and so here are some photos. We checked the barley field that they sprayed late into the evening on Monday, the weeds are starting to die. Garry says it smelled kind of like 2-4D, it was a local herbicide, dry that they mixed and sprayed after the wind died off. They were able to finish it in the dark with the lightbar GPS system Garry brought back in his suitcase from Ontario.
We did eventually find the right pond as you can see in the trade school blog. Garry is hoping for some rain to get the rest of the corn up, and the sunflowers, which are planted somewhere near the corn.
The alfalfa field is past Garry's knees, and there are a few buds, so maybe they will cut it this week. Maxim has been cutting little hayfields for people- mostly garden plots of alfalfa, and even baling a few up, so all the equipment is is working order, and there is no rain in the forecast this week, good for making hay, sadly not so good for the rest of the crops, which could use a shower.
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| Most of the corn is up and growing |
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| Garry's wheat is forming heads and looking good |
On Tuesday Maxim got a phone call while we were eating dinner at noon. One of our dry cows was calving, and they wanted Garry to come get it. Garry said it could wait until they finished eating, and they returned with a heifer calf. It was one of the good cows. Victor got a phone call, since he was out from the the city for the day, that they wanted the cow chased home too, but Garry refused, saying it would be less stress on the cow to come back with the rest of the cows in the evening.
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| the new heifer calf- looking good |
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