This post is for you Dad.
The farm got a new strip til machine this year. They don't dig the ground up before they plant the beets. It just goes in and plants beets right on top of the grain stubble. There are a few diggers on it that digs the row up where the beets are planted, but leaves most of the dirt untouched. It's really weird. It just looks so wrong to be planting like this. Usually the ground is all worked and nice and weed/straw free. Darin really hopes they like planting like this. It cuts out on quite a few tractors needed to plant. It also seems to be helping with conserving moisture (which we need). It should also really help with the wind, the beets should have a lot more protection because of the straw.
Darin's been working some pretty long hours trying to get the beets in. They are now finally all in for the first time. They are working on figuring out which fields were killed from the frost and will be doing more replanting soon.
5 comments:
So cool! I hope that it goes well, and no more frost on these beets! I will show NOlan when he gets home.
That's really neat! I hope it proves to be a good thing, since it sounds like it saves some time/tractors.
Wow! They've been busy planting since the weekend! Hopefully it's done freezing. I know it's so hard to do all that work and then have to do it again. Did you pick a color for your room? Can't wait to see it.
I miss riding the tractor... :-(
Thank you so much for posting video of tractors! Carson loves it. He wants nothing more than to come to Idaho and ride all the big tractors. Hopefully we will be able to come up for harvest season so Carson can see all the cool machines in action. But at least maybe this video will keep him appeased until then:)
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