The Official Farming Thread...

[BlackGreyhound]

Ok boys what is a gripple?


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It's a doo-dad for joining wires.

 

[hoskvarna]

It's a doo-dad for joining wires.
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Ok thanks
Never heard of them


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[jakethesnake]

Ok thanks
Never heard of them


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Glad you asked hosky. I was clueless. Corn coming up good?

 

[JimBear]

We had a .25” last night, some had around .01”.
Big swing & miss for the weather guessers. Just enough to add a day or two more drying time before we can start planting again. I saw some folks trying yesterday but were balling up their planters & the fella running my brothers air seeder on beans said he had to plant some going downhill because he couldn’t pull it uphill. I believe he got about 25 acres in before he called it quits.

 

[jakethesnake]

I haven’t gotten a bean in the ground. I’d like to start any day. Rain Thursday. Grounds just about fit to go on again. Figured I’d get hay up maybe before the rain and see what the weather does. Hope to go hard and get them in the ground as quickly as I can. Got a little wheat to cut.

 

[Gullet]

Interesting fact I learned recently...

Corn does not exist naturally in Nature.
It is a totally man made plant.

I never knew that till recently.

 

[hoskvarna]

Glad you asked hosky. I was clueless. Corn coming up good?

I ain’t too proud to ask if I don’t know
Corn is good, beans are coming up good in the no-till corn ground
We could use a little rain now


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[Gullet]

So what are these fellas?
In my yard & dont have a clue...

 

[hoskvarna]

Interesting fact I learned recently...

Corn does not exist naturally in Nature.
It is a totally man made plant.

I never knew that till recently.

Where did it come from
The Indians had it before the white man got here [emoji848]


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[JimBear]

So what are these fellas?
In my yard & dont have a clue...
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They look like Yucca plants.

 

[hoskvarna]

So what are these fellas?
In my yard & dont have a clue...
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Looks like yucca to me


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[Gullet]

Thank you sirs, I googled Yucca plant blooms & you are correct.
They are pretty but spread like weeds...
I was thinking about getting rid of them but think I'll keep em.
Many thanks for the ID.

 

[Ryan Browne]

Interesting fact I learned recently...

Corn does not exist naturally in Nature.
It is a totally man made plant.

I never knew that till recently.

Where did it come from
The Indians had it before the white man got here [emoji848]


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Corn was derived from a grass called teosinte.

https://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/evolution/corn/

Pretty much nothing we eat exists in nature in the same form that we produce it. Maybe seafood I guess. Everything from apples to zucchini started as something wild and over hundreds of generations became what we eat today as the plants (or animals) were selected to best meet our needs.

 

[hoskvarna]

Corn was derived from a grass called teosinte.

https://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/evolution/corn/

Pretty much nothing we eat exists in nature in the same form that we produce it. Maybe seafood I guess. Everything from apples to zucchini started as something wild and over hundreds of generations became what we eat today as the plants (or animals) were selected to best meet our needs.

Didn’t know that
Thanks Ryan [emoji106]


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[Gullet]

They may have been modified at some point, but Apples arent man made along with a plethora of other fruits & vegetables that we are familiar with.

Sure, they have been modified but were always available in nature (wild in nature).
Corn does not meet that criteria.

 

[Mastermind]

Wow! Her body condition looks great for nursing triplets! Great job,

Only one of those calves are hers. She just lets any of them nurse.

 

[Gullet]

Only one of those calves are hers. She just lets any of them nurse.

I know chicks like that

 

[Gullet]

Chickens do the same thing...
So do Dogs, Turkeys, Cats, Camels, Rhinos, Elephants & Stihls...

 

[BlackGreyhound]

My fence line termination knots are getting better. Not my favorite thing in life. Plenty more to do this summer. Ugh.

 

[karrl]

A little tractor porn from the other day.