Last year my corn grew with relatively few weeds. That lulled me into complacency. So I planted some sorghum with the corn. The corn is genetically modified so allow spraying with Roundup. However, the sorghum is not Roundup ready. This year there is a bumper crop of weeds; Canada Thistle, Sunflower, Foxtail and Cockle-burr.
The weed specialist, JW, at the Sinai Cooperative Elevator recommended Moxy, the generic form of Bucktill. With a borrowed four wheel sprayer from WN I was off. All went well until, with 13 rows left, the four wheeler died. Unable to restart it I decided to let it cool its jets and took out the 1950 JD B with the mounted two row cultivator.
Now, if I was a real farmer, I'd probably have waited a few days from spraying to cultivating. But with rain clouds in the south west and a desire to get back to Mpls. I set to cultivating. With more than enough weeds to go around I thought it better to get it done.
All was going swimmingly, with only 4 rows left, the right side of the cultivator fell off the tractor. Nothing broke. The nut came off the main bold holding it on. The cultivator twisted in a way that I could not move. So, there I was in the field with two disabled machines.
Ah, the utility of cell phones, soon WN came to my rescue. We fixed the cultivator and loaded the 4 wheeler into his pickup and I completed the cultivating. Back at home WN fixed the 4 wheeler and I was all set to finish spraying in the morning. When I awakened to thunder and a nice rain I decided the spraying would have to wait.
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