Hey Oldtimer. Farmers raised a pretty good early crop around here on not a lot of moisture. 40-50 Bu. wheat, 70-85 bu. barley, 12-1800#Canola. I even think the maltsters are going to have a hard time finding a reason to reject the barley production this year. Amazing!
Interesting note on the wheat protein. Saw high protein levels around here and buyers were actually discounting for too much protein. Wow!
Not too much work for an adjuster, so good for most everybody so far. Looks like the late season crops are going to be keeping the adjusters busy. Just haven't been getting rains. Going to see spotty average yields in those late crops as spotty rains seem to have been the norm, but expect a lot of losses on the crop insurance side of things. Late crops around here are sunflowers, corn, soybeans and dry beans.
IL Rancher, I agree with you, netwrap can be a pain. Sure do like it though when I need to get some baling done in a hurry. 11 seconds to wrap and just a bit more to dump one. Made the decision a couple years back to feed these netwrapped bales to the cows through a bale processor. I think they do end up consuming some of the small pieces that the processor doesn't remove. Hoping we don't end up with a bunch of cows tipping over cause their guts quit working. Anybody seen any problems with this out there?
Gotta get some sleep, have a great day planned tomorrow. Gonna go doctor some footrot/pinkeye on the prairie with neighbor and our kids.