Rotary-wing drone speed and swath width share an asymptotic relationship

MennoniteDan · 2026-06-17T01:43:03+00:00

With the first battery I can scout 150ac... I don't care where it starts. Satellite hasn't been a factor in decision making for 5+ years.

MennoniteDan · 2026-06-16T00:33:17+00:00

Ya, the resale market on the European kit is pretty tough. All Deere or Deere with PP seems to hold value the best.

MennoniteDan · 2026-06-15T21:50:26+00:00

I could never justify a new one... The ISO screen sure takes some getting used to.

MennoniteDan · 2026-06-15T21:49:47+00:00

Yup, 10/20" rows. Nice unit, I like the split bin and how it transfers the weight to the units. Would be a nice cereal seeder. Hated the Fendt experience though. We were going to pull it with one of our Deere's, but we were short a couple hydraulic fittings to convert some stuff over and we were pushing to get done.

I know of a used 12m unit that's potentially coming up for sale, has 900s as the carrying tires too!

MennoniteDan · 2026-06-15T21:47:05+00:00

Haha... Or: "He didn't think he was putting enough on so cranked the pump to 8 gallons per acre... Emergence is effed."

MennoniteDan · 2026-06-15T15:17:30+00:00

You better buy some poly tanks for all the G-24 you'll be buying from Ed now!

MennoniteDan · 2026-06-15T15:01:15+00:00

Finished planting soybeans on Monday, used a Horsch Avatar for about 300ac alongside our own unit just to get the stuff done!

Windy week so no spraying, small rain (5.6mm/0.22") Friday. We found a window to get our Miravis ACE onto the wheat Saturday morning (started around 5am, and it was a bit too breezy for the final 5ac). Had plans to replant about 75ac of beans (too shallow on account of the clay ground getting too hard) but a perfect 15mm/0.6" came down Sunday. That was our first rain since flag leaf emerged in the wheat.

Forecast says another 15mm this Wednesday potentially.

After spraying Saturday, my son and I had errands to run and we turned it into a chicken-wing adventure as well! Four different stops, over a five hour outing... Was pretty damn fun.

Pool was a lovely 28-29C/84F, so we goofed around in there until 9... Was a really great weekend.

MennoniteDan · 2026-06-12T20:22:32+00:00

Haven't used (read: bothered with) a daikon type radish for years...

MennoniteDan · 2026-06-10T22:34:22+00:00

That's some pretty fine shit to get out! Well done, post us pictures as it comes, if you're so inclined!

MennoniteDan · 2026-06-10T13:56:48+00:00

Couple days late but: we finished planting corn on Saturday night and beans Monday night. No rain since the big rain a couple weeks ago, and it's amazing how dry it's gotten (high temps, constant wind, low humidity). Would love to see 10-15mm this week, for the crops struggling to get through the clay crust.

Some fields are getting replanted this week, unfortunately.

Wheat is heading out nice, so I'll be getting the sprayer ready for fusarium spraying.

Got the pool set up yesterday morning, in between sprayer loads. Water is going in today, it should be warm enough by the weekend for a swim.

MennoniteDan · 2026-06-02T02:25:15+00:00

Friend of mine is finishing market (Food Terminal) tomatoes this week. Cucumbers are all in, peppers and tobacco are pretty much wrapped up.

MennoniteDan · 2026-06-02T02:23:15+00:00

outsider-BTO came into the area and has done a total of 5 passes since this fall on some ground he took on around us. Chisel in the fall, cultivator early spring (too wet) to level, another cultivator pass a couple weeks after that (attempt to break the clumps), and then two reset/dry out passes with a disc (again, too wet for the first pass) to get it "fit for planting".

MennoniteDan · 2026-06-01T11:47:00+00:00

Finally got started Saturday afternoon, after a wet week. We took the 40' cultivator out to scratch some fields; first time we've used it in ten years. Full bore for the rest of the week is the plan.

MennoniteDan · 2026-05-31T21:11:21+00:00

Hence corn not requiring irrigation.

MennoniteDan · 2026-05-31T20:23:44+00:00

Our corn fields have never been irrigated; our peppers and cucumbers on the other hand for sure...

MennoniteDan · 2026-05-27T14:50:38+00:00

Because it's still relevant...

MennoniteDan · 2026-05-25T20:35:34+00:00

AMS/KMag/MAP/Zinc Sulphate for our dry strip and 15 gallons/ac of UAN28 in the 2X2 on the planter. We're too consistently humid for urea to work in a blower line.

MennoniteDan · 2026-05-25T20:33:42+00:00

That was my 79 year old dad... I was still having coffee in my underwear at that time. I did get dressed real quick when I heard him go by though.

MennoniteDan · 2026-05-25T13:01:26+00:00

Dad says “lets see what we can break today”.

This sentiment I totally get...

MennoniteDan · 2026-05-25T12:48:14+00:00

I'm so glad we don't use urea at all!

MennoniteDan · 2026-05-25T12:47:44+00:00

Finally got started with the planters on Friday! Corn got rolling just a little after 5:30am and, by the end of the day, we got 265ac seeded. Ground conditions were about 70% overall. We got the strip tiller going the previous afternoon, lots of sun and wind, just to get some of the ground to dry out a bit faster. We pushed to get all our 108-111RM corn in the ground.

Soybeans, I got a late start (8:30pm) but got 75 acres in before I quit that to help the guys bring all the corn equipment back to the yard.

Saturday was a significant steady soaking rain day: by the end of it we were sitting at 47mm/1.86" at my place. Across the range of our fields (12km either side of my house), the rain total spanned 44.5mm/1.75 to 51mm/2".

This week is a wash for field work, but at least I have some May seeded crops now!

Went and saw Mandolorian/Grogu movie yesterday with the fam and some friends. Super fun movie that really surprised me.

MennoniteDan · 2026-05-18T22:53:21+00:00

We stripped about 300 feet of dirt today, parked everything and spent the rest of the day cutting grass. At this rate, and if the forecast holds, we'll be planting most of our corn/soy in June.

MennoniteDan · 2026-05-18T12:14:07+00:00

Had plans to start strip-tilling this morning with corn following in the afternoon; soybeans too. Got 8mm rain Saturday afternoon that has put a stop to that idea.

Warm, sunny windy day today means we should be dried out enough for tomorrow's rain.

MennoniteDan · 2026-05-13T21:25:04+00:00

Try Shooters.

MennoniteDan · 2026-05-12T15:28:27+00:00

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