Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Crop Report!

  Any self respecting farmer would blush.  Fortunately my corn field is some distance from the road!  Last year the field was so weed free that I was lulled into complacency this year.  With so few weeds I thought I'd be safe planting some sorghum, which is not Round-Up ready, with the corn. Big mistake!  I did spray the field with broad leaf herbicide but it only helped a little. There is a wonderful crop of wild sunflowers with a little corn here and there.
   Perhaps the planting time made the difference.  Last year it was so wet that I didn't get the corn planted until June 10, and this year I planted on May 1.  Oh well, it will be great winter wildlife cover.

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