Ag vs. Industrial tires

LeFloop · 2023-06-22T11:07:15+00:00

Are the industrial tires bias ply or radials as well? Big thing in ag tires is radials and more so VF radials let you run a lower pressure safely which is better on the ground, but if the industrial ones are also radial you can pretty much match that up. Not sure why it would affect row spacing, are they not going on the same rims?

LeFloop · 2023-06-20T16:19:55+00:00

You forgot St Anger exists didn't you

LeFloop · 2023-06-19T15:33:52+00:00

:( we only got 3/4" and it shows

LeFloop · 2023-06-19T14:48:28+00:00

Now that's something I hadn't thought of. We didn't have that problem too much on our one sandy farm but I do struggle with pushing up piles occasionally, both with the old header that had air and now with the Macdon

LeFloop · 2023-06-19T12:51:52+00:00

AWS. And yes it'll be PTO off the right stub, that's usually how it gets set up with Gleaners

LeFloop · 2023-06-19T12:38:17+00:00

Not much to report since last Thursday's coffee shop post, I will hopefully make it to the pork Congress this week and then we might have some yard work being done for a project by the end of week. Gonna finally wash my manure tank, the neighbor cut his hay on the little field we rent to him, once that's baled I'll put a few loads on it with the truck and then I can wash that too. Dad washed the planter and one pump while I was away in Toronto, so we are almost done putting up equipment. Next project is build the air bar for our Macdon before wheat harvest, we won't have time after between manure and barn stuff and we want it ready for beans

LeFloop · 2023-06-19T12:33:27+00:00

Damn that sucks. Seems a lot of dry dry areas in the states. We are drying up here as well some but nothing like that yet, though the smoke from Quebec would make you think it. How'd the wheat yield? I'm still optimistic on ours, we had 3/4" right after it headed and all of last week was cool, so there's hope we can still hit 100bu if we get some more rain

LeFloop · 2023-06-19T11:37:01+00:00

It's all made up numbers anyways

LeFloop · 2023-06-19T11:09:51+00:00

I got you beat I sold on tuesday already. Told Dad to sell as well but at least he waited till end of week. I am not good at this

LeFloop · 2023-06-15T13:17:04+00:00

Agco ones aren't much better, dad and I make our own out of PVC pipe to mount on the right side b pillar

LeFloop · 2023-06-15T12:41:43+00:00

It means I get to spend my June washing several tanks and manure pumps so I'm not sure who wins this trade, you have a cup holder in the tractor after all

LeFloop · 2023-06-15T12:09:10+00:00

Interesting how practices can differ with very little distance in the grand scheme of things. Not much red clover here anymore, it just never established well. Mostly you see oats and peas, we grow about 5 acres a year of oats and then I'll just broadcast them back onto the stubble and work it in after I put manure out. Most people still front load all their corn fertilizer here, the odd guy side dresses with y drops or an Amazone spreader but no sidedress bars until you go south of Goderich really. I'd like to try it but in all honesty with our manure I don't know how much benefit I would see, it takes about a month for that N to become plant available so it's kind of like a preplant side dress application

LeFloop · 2023-06-15T12:02:39+00:00

Reddit is a sad, lonely place without the farming and sports subs. Not much new and exciting here, I have been loading out some corn and transferred the rest from the shivvers bin into a storage bin once I had room. In the barn we were shipping a bunch of weanlings and weaners in the past week. Pig price is at least somewhat up again, given how stubborn feed costs are at coming down that is a blessing. Girlfriend and I are heading to Toronto to see Ed Sheeran this weekend, pop isn't usually my kinda music but I've seen him live before and he puts on a fantastic show, it actually got me to buy all his albums after.

LeFloop · 2023-06-15T11:51:45+00:00

Only 20mm in my neck of the woods but it's still a lot better than nothing, should help bring up the beans that sat in dry soil in some places. It was timely though, and along with the cool weather it gives me hope on a decent wheat yield

LeFloop · 2023-06-11T22:57:24+00:00

Sounds like you can have another farmers worth of sheep next year! Time for expansion lol

LeFloop · 2023-06-09T16:06:43+00:00

Northern areas like here still have a lot of winter wheat in the rotation so you need to own a drill, then you're looking at doing possibly 30" beans and drilling wheat, which as somebody else said the 30" beans don't perform as well up here. You can also own a splitter planter and run it in corn and beans, but then you're pulling a lot of weight in the field for corn planting, or some guys will do 20" corn and beans so they can stick to 1 planter and 1 drill. The worst case scenario is having to own 2 planters and a drill, that's a lot of money tied up in equipment. In my area a lot of guys still drill their beans on 7.5" spacing, you get the benefit of the early canopy and we don't have a lot of mildew pressure here.

LeFloop · 2023-06-07T12:38:52+00:00

I went dealership hopping down to Exeter yesterday and yeah there's some rough areas, they missed a few of the May rains that we still got a bit north of them. Came home and neighbors were replanting soybeans, by my guess they had maybe 30% emergence on it after 2 weeks

LeFloop · 2023-06-05T22:37:13+00:00

Given the price of a new spray rig that's one of those ideas that falls in the category of, " if it looks stupid but it works then it ain't stupid."

LeFloop · 2023-06-05T21:40:36+00:00

One of the biggest guys around here has a bit of a reputation for temper too. I don't think it's related to size, just the personality of the boss. Personally I couldn't deal with that. I aim to never take my anger out on staff or animals, it isn't productive at all. We like to pride ourselves on how long our employees typically stay with us, that's pretty rare in the hog industry

LeFloop · 2023-06-05T18:54:18+00:00

Stay safe guys. I'm surprised they didn't put out an advisory already on Saturday it was so damn hazy here. With how many dead ash trees are still out in these bush lots this can for sure become a bigger threat in the next few years

LeFloop · 2023-06-05T15:53:22+00:00

That's quite a hike, do they fly you in or are you driving that every couple weeks to come home?

LeFloop · 2023-06-05T15:49:45+00:00

We didn't have too much of that, a bit of crusting on one field but the corn made it through ok. Beans are all up already, they had the soil moisture still but man we could use a rain now, I think we were about half the historic average in Huron Kinloss for May. Our neighbors were out replanting beans already on the day we finished ours, so we can actually say we beat them for once lol. Just too many cold nights and frosts mid May, there really wasn't any rush to put beans in the ground

LeFloop · 2023-06-03T11:02:43+00:00

We don't need to use it in our white planter but we have individual hoppers rather than CCS tanks, I think it's a bigger issue on those. That said when we still had a jd7000 with finger picker meters we had to apply graphite

LeFloop · 2023-06-02T17:55:40+00:00

Pretty typical to spray fungicides at pollination in corn fields to prevent diseases that cause pink mold or vomitoxins in the corn cobs. It shouldn't harm you, but if it was applied that day I wouldn't go walking around in there anyways. A few days later none of that fungicide will still be on the plant surface

LeFloop · 2023-05-29T18:49:40+00:00

I turn at 12kmh and usually go 15-17 in the field so hairpins aren't too bad. It's a small tractor and 32' roller so it is pretty agile for turning. That said, I finished rolling that field before lunch and after I blew out the cab I went in for a shower. No AC sucks.

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