This week it was dry enough to start planting corn. Of course the corn goes in same fields where there was corn last year, since those are the fields with irrigation. Because of the water that went on them last year, there was more moisture in those fields, which is why they started with planting sunflowers last week. However, they may have finished planting corn today or nearly finished. They should finish Friday and then plant the other half of the sunflower fields (the sunflower fields are the ones where winter wheat was harvested last year, the two crops rotate, although there is talk of adding another crop to the rotation.) All four tractors have been busy in the fields, Max was spraying the wheat with fungicide (I believe I heard) Wednesday. Apparently the guys planting corn had one of the big wagons in the field with totes of fertilizer, and they had used the ones up on one side, so when they went to move it at the end of the day Wednesday, it tipped and damaged the drawbar, because the load was unbalanced. They fill the planter's fertilizer hoppers with five gallon buckets from the totes in the wagon.
Today they were installing the new pipe for the irrigation for the big corn field, this means easier and more even water distribution across the field, adding the pump last year helped but there were still parts of the field that did not grow as well because it did not get enough water.
Of course I am writing this around midnight Thursday, and there seems to have been a couple of rain showers in the last couple hours, so that may affect what gets planted tomorrow, depending on how much rain we got. They were able to plant Monday and Tuesday as we did not get much rain the day of the picnic. They were out in the fields cultivating that day, and planting sunflowers.
Why am I up at midnight? I am still having problems sleeping all night, I wake up every couple hours and go to the bathroom and get a drink of water as my throat gets dry at night. The one direction from the doctor in the hospital we are trying to follow, is drink lots of water. I normally have problems falling asleep anyway. Hopefully I get to sleep soon, as Garry is supposed to be picking up more bull semen in Dnepro tomorrow morning as he's almost out again. I'm planning to ride along for a Mc Donalds breakfast, and maybe some groceries.
More of our crop report- the alfalfa is about 12 inches tall (in the mature fields, the newly planted stuff is getting real leaves). It won't be long and they will be baling instead of planting. Garry has the garden all planted, except for cucumbers, he is looking for his seed. I even helped with some hoeing in the flower beds, and planted our two dozen marigolds Wednesday that we started in the house back in February. A couple were blooming already.
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