Crop report

Garry took some photos while he was looking at his fields and posted them on facebook over the weekend so I can write up a crop report. Today he was hoping to finish getting the irrigation pipes connected, they were waiting for another shipment of parts so they could finish. The students and staff were rewarded for all the hard work on Thursday with a trip to the movies to see the Solo movie. Garry said he actually fell asleep during the movie, since it was late and it was in Ukrainian and he couldn't follow the plot.

Garry says the corn is already up to his knees.

The field that was irrigated last year is almost twice as big as last year, we were able to rent the next field over, and the new corn field across the pond is almost three times as big as what we had last year. They have gotten some water on parts of the fields already.  Of course, we will need that much more water for the additional acreage, and there is a new company controlling the water, and a new tax on water, so the bill will be bigger for irrigation this summer. Basically it means that every inch of rain will save us lots of money, but irrigation will save the corn crop when it turns hot and dry.


As you can see the winter wheat is starting to turn (change color) and he wrote that it is waist high. The sunflower fields also are looking good, although the rain promised for Sunday only amounted to a few drops.




The second cut alfalfa has not grown very big because of the dry weather, but Garry says it won't be long and they will be making hay again. This week he needs to repair his straw/ hay shed as the posts are twisted at the back where the guys stacked the hay bales against it. They will have to move the bales and reinforce it before putting more bales there.