Our soybeans are getting a good start with the rain we’ve had. We are finally having some heat here (in the mid 80’s) and that combination is really making things grow.
Soybean Update
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Some miscellaneous pictures
We had a heavy rain the other night and the cloud formations were beautiful afterwards.
This is home from another angle.
Update on the alfalfa
Our alfalfa field is just about ready to mow and chop again. Remember when I said that we could get four to five cuttings? This will be number 2.
Pretty!
The corn continues to grow
This is the view from our house of the corn growing.
It’s starting to look beautiful.
It’s looking like a green, lush carpet across the road from the back lane.
You can see each row just before it “canopies”. Canopying is when the row leaves meet in the middle and close over the gap between the rows. That helps to shade out some of the weeds so they don’t get a chance to take over!
This is one of my favorite times of the year to watch the crops grow.
Here’s what the corn looks like close-up. I’ll have to ask my son, Matt, what “stage” the corn is in. I usually count the leaves and get it wrong! I’m going to take a shot and say this is at leaf stage V5. Matt? [Note: Matt says it’s V7 stage.]
These are the end rows of corn in the field. The little bit of brown on the leaves is “burn” from some of the fertilizer. It won’t hurt the corn and you won’t even notice it when it grows a bit taller.
In this picture you can see where Richard planted corn on different days in the field. The farther corn was planted several days after the corn in the forefront. I think we got rained out in this field and didn’t get it done.
The corn at our back lane.
The tractor and sprayer sitting in the field waiting for it to dry out after a heavy rain.
The tanks our supplier, Blue Stone, brings our fertilizer in. They each hold about 5000 gallons.
This corn field was planted over several days, hence the different heights of corn.
You can really see the different size here.
The soybeans are coming up
You can just see the seed starting to push the dirt out of its way.
The one on the right is still working its way up while the two on the left have broken through.
I always think it’s amazing how that little plant can move so much heavy dirt.
Here a seed didn’t get planted under the dirt and the one next to it did.
You can “row” the beans. That means you can just see the whole row of plants at once.
Avalon Farms Ohio 