Crop report- end of May

You know that the corn crop is up and the guys have been busy installing the drip line set up to irrigate the two fields. It's not quite ready to use yet, but we had an inch and half of rain so far this week. The sunflowers are up and looking good, they will enjoy every drop of rain because they do not get extra water. All of these photos are from last week before the rain came. The fields are too muddy to drive to now, unless they are by the highway.

You know the alfalfa field was harvested as haylage instead of dry hay because of the overcast/chance of rain weather from the end of last week until now. I did get some photos of one of the last wagons dumping in the bunk on Sunday. The pile got packed and covered Sunday afternoon. You can see that the wagons dump over sideways. They were having trouble getting the wagons to empty when the started, because the machine was cutting way too long. Once they realized that there was a missing/broken piece, they fixed it and it worked so well they are thinking they will chop the wheat (I think its 12 acres) they were planning to cut early and turn into hay so they can try double cropping corn for silage next to the alfalfa field. 

That's still a little ways off, but you can see heads developing in the wheat fields now. 

Anyway, it's good that it rained, I was hoeing in the garden on Monday and it was so dry the ground was cracking by the onions and Garry has watered the garden with the sprinkler a few times. It's also good that the frost on Friday night was not too hard on the crops. it would be impossible to replant the crop with the driplines already in the ground.