Well guys, i started getting ready for this summer and field work by ripping the fields and burning one. Last night i was out ripping from 6pm until 1:30am and today from 10am to 4pm when it started raining. Heres a few pics from last night and today. I will get more as the season progresses.

 

Is that red diesel I see in your truck?

 

it is but we used it to ignite the field

 

Nice tractor... or was the focus supposed to be on the truck?

I sat in an 8940 for 12 hours yesterday, but I was just smoothing the fields up; we did all our deeper tillage in the fall.

Where in Iowa are you?

 

North Central, Mason City area

You must be in the dubuque/clinton areas, on or near the great mississippi

 

Yeah, I'm about 20 miles west of Clinton.

 

ok, bout 3 hrs from me

 

oh ya, it's deffinetaley begun, doesn't seem like i've had ANY time for my precious DTR, lol!

BTW, let's debate this issue, i believe in no-till!!!

 

Farmers don't start planting here till first of June...We get our garden starts started in greenhouses.

 

wow, but its still cool/cold up there till June

 

Every bit of our corn is already in the ground and up here in North Carolina.

 

We can still have killer frost in May....Course we can have at anytime, but that is "usually" the safe time to plant. Have seen snow in mid June too. We were having a Summer Solstice (june 21) party couple years ago, storm moved in and we got a inch of fresh snow the evening. It didn't stay long,

 

lol we had 6" of snow a week and a half ago

 

So, you bleed red dont ya?? I am about 4 hours from you, an hour from clinton.

Tractor running a little hot eh?

Jon

 

Heck...We still have snow in my yard, been there since Sept. Its startin to go pretty quick, but temps are still dropping to hi 20's at night. That will soon end as the sun gets higher and we get over 20 hours off direct sun light. Puddles are freezing over at night which helps keep the skeeters down for the time being, but they are out in droves in the evening.