Which is a better field ?

@ThickMadame Nothing wrong with that. I think farmers have it good in a sense. You plant and make your own. Outside. Sounds like its good for your health.

@ThickMadame What crops do you grow?

@TexChik

Green beans, strawberries, oats, rye

@ThickMadame Nice. We grow Alfalfa hay and wheat. We grow so much hay in a year and wrap the bales(large round) because of so many weather and natural disasters. In the last five years, we have averaged 38,000 bales per season. It has always been rated superior. We grow it and store it just knowing we made a huge mistake growing so much, but then the calls start coming in. Last year, the feed lots flooded out. This year, we had that huge prairie fire in Texas and Oklahoma. 2 years ago, there was heavy snow and dangerous cold. Now the cattle companies contract with us to grow for them. After the 4th cutting, if we fertilize...anything we grow is ours. We always do and oftentimes have to irrigate that late in the summer. Now we only wrap that last cutting. We get calls from desperate cattlemen referred to us by the company we contract with, and they buy up all we have, and they thank us when it arrives.

@TexChik speaking of Hay. There is a major shortage of small bales in my area. We are thinking of pulling out the old small bale making equipment out of retirement.

The horse people are placing ads for 15-20 dollars for them.

@ThickMadame If you are getting plenty of rain, its a great money maker. Hay is in short supply everywhere. A dairy uses our green cut wheat to bump up their milk production , that has been cut and every bit of our tillable acreage is in alfalfa. First cutting happens after the fields dry out.

Getting a little too much. Almost didn't get the oats in. Fields just start drying out from out long winter and then it keeps raining. We just planted the oats on Wednesday.

Didn't get done till 1am

In case you're wondering, we're in the Park Falls area of Wisconsin

@ThickMadame Hope you get some sun soon. We are just starting to get hot, which is golden for hay production.

@ThickMadame Your growing season just started then.

@TexChik We just hit 60 for the 1st time this year today

@TexChik Yes and its a short one to, compared the southern states

@ThickMadame We planted the wheat in December. Cut it in early April and then started on our hay.

We are lucky if we can get in the Fields in mid April. Fields are either still covered in snow or super muddy yet

@ThickMadame We had a dusting of snow in February. Temps shot up into the 90s for a few days in March, which allowed us to cut the wheat on time.

@TexChik We don't see temperatures like that till middle of August and maybe a few days in 100s, but with 100% humidity

So a hot sticky heat

@ThickMadame Texas gets toasty.

@TexChik I have been about dozen times

@ThickMadame Have you? Which city?

@TexChik Corpus Christi area

@ThickMadame I've Been there several times. I used to have a beach house about 50 miles from there before a hurricane ate it.

@ThickMadame Aww. Sorry for your loss. It's been a while, then.

@TexChik Yeah, long time