Wheat Harvest

Sorry about the late post. Last weekend we helped our daughter and her family move in to their new home. I am just catching up.

There are 365 days in a year. We have been waiting for the grain harvesters to show up for about two weeks. Of course they show up on moving day. Whew.
   This sure is a pretty sight.

Hard to believe this is the first step to a loaf of bread.

Looks like a good crop. Prices are softening, but that usually happens during harvest of most crops.
Once the straw is baled we will disc the ground and rip it. Then we will let it sit open until the Fall. We will work it and bed it before cotton harvest and it will be ready for next year.

And how about the weather? It is over 20 degrees cooler than this time last week.
   I was looking over some weather forecasts this week. The average temp in our area for the end of July is 97 on the Weather Channel. That's funny. Twenty five years ago I was working with the UC thirty year average temps and they had the last few days of July were pegged at 100 degrees. I thought we were supposed to be warming up. I know they probably had different methodologies, but my point is that at least over the last thirty years, in our area, temps are not going up.

Elsewhere on the farm-
   The corn is now officially as high as an elephant's eye. It really grew during last week's heat. It is tasseling out. It is getting another shot of water and fertilizer this week.
   Today we finished the second irrigation on the cotton. It is finally blooming. Some bugs started showing up last week. They are getting sprayed this week.
   We finally have hull split in the almonds. That is about two weeks late. Another reflection of the cool Spring weather. Almond harvest is next. We will start prepping the fields next week. Meanwhile there are always weeds to kill.

I hope y'all are having a great week.

P