Crop photos- report after the rain

Not our sunflowers, behind the village sign

The rain came just in time for the sunflowers, the leaves have really spread out and the flowers were just starting to bloom.

The corn is growing well, since it has been getting water all along. The irrigation is shut down except for putting fertilizer on this week. Garry said if they had known it would not work as well as last year they would have put more fertilizer on when they planted the corn.




The problem is lower water pressure in the line this year. Garry thinks more people are using irrigation water this year.

  Valera was putting on fertilizer and cleaning the filters on Monday when we stopped to check the cornfield.

The guys are a little disappointed in the wheat harvest. There is more grain than other years, but the spent more money on fertilizer and inputs this year than other years. Likely the fertilizer did not make much difference with the lack of rain for the last two months. Max has talked to some other farmers and they are getting less.

They are combining again today the first stuff last week was a little wetter than they thought, so they moved it to the opposite side of the shed. They started baling straw again on Monday.