Kelly Robertson Farms http://www.krfarm.net The Web Home of the Robertson Family Thu, 17 May 2012 15:36:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Love those farm signs http://www.krfarm.net/2012/05/17/love-those-farm-signs/ http://www.krfarm.net/2012/05/17/love-those-farm-signs/#comments Thu, 17 May 2012 15:36:27 +0000 admin http://www.krfarm.net/?p=3892

]]> http://www.krfarm.net/2012/05/17/love-those-farm-signs/feed/ 0 Corn Crop Update for the Farm http://www.krfarm.net/2012/05/16/corn-crop-update-for-the-farm/ http://www.krfarm.net/2012/05/16/corn-crop-update-for-the-farm/#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 12:25:33 +0000 admin http://www.krfarm.net/?p=3886 Here is a picture of some of the corn on the farm just after sidedressing.  For those naysayers on Twitter and Facebook who think I am exaggerating how dry are, take a look.  Need a rain.

]]> http://www.krfarm.net/2012/05/16/corn-crop-update-for-the-farm/feed/ 0 Sitting and waiting http://www.krfarm.net/2012/05/15/sitting-and-waiting/ http://www.krfarm.net/2012/05/15/sitting-and-waiting/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 11:18:52 +0000 admin http://www.krfarm.net/?p=3884 Well I have 45 acres or so of anhydrous left to sidedress when the corn gets a little bigger.  Other than that it is sit back and wait on my seed beans.  Yep sitting and waiting on my parent seed.  Seems they are having a time clearing customs.

Wheat harvest is approaching fast.  I think it will cut about the first of June.  This will be the earliest wheat harvest I can ever imagine.  I need to start getting bins ready while it is still cool.

]]> http://www.krfarm.net/2012/05/15/sitting-and-waiting/feed/ 0 Side dressing corn http://www.krfarm.net/2012/05/12/side-dressing-corn-2/ http://www.krfarm.net/2012/05/12/side-dressing-corn-2/#comments Sat, 12 May 2012 12:46:09 +0000 admin http://www.krfarm.net/?p=3872 Lots of anhydrous going on this week around the area.  Side dressing corn is my second favorite part of growing corn.  Number 1 is shelling it!  But I love side dressing corn almost as much as running the combine.

There is just something about how the corn reacts a few days after the tool bar opens up the soil and the plant grabs the nitrogen that makes me know we have a shot at a big crop.  I say shot because it all comes down to rain and weather in the end, but I always feel that I gave it every chance when I side dress.

Anyway here is a picture that Randy Anderson posted on Facebook of him finishing up on Friday night.  A very good picture.  Randy is one of my soil testing clients and also a fellow Farm Bureau member and Crop Watcher for the ILFB Farm Week.  You can follow his reports from Saline Co, IL  here if you dont get the Farm Week.

Here is a few pictures I took. The first is my tractor and tank applying anhydrous behind the house when I got started on Tuesday night.

 

This last picture I took when down at Cornersville, IL pulling some soil samples on ground farmed by David Hale.  It had just been side dressed and they have closers on the tool bar that made the little mole mound.  I really like this picture also.

]]> http://www.krfarm.net/2012/05/12/side-dressing-corn-2/feed/ 0 Slow Posting Alert http://www.krfarm.net/2012/05/08/s-l-o-w-p-o-s-t-i-n-g-a-l-e-r-t/ http://www.krfarm.net/2012/05/08/s-l-o-w-p-o-s-t-i-n-g-a-l-e-r-t/#comments Tue, 08 May 2012 12:16:53 +0000 admin http://www.krfarm.net/?p=3868 I am swamped with everything right now.  Corn is all planted and all but 15 acres is up.

Got to start spraying and sidedressing N quick.

No beans to plant yet.

No rain yet.

Keep checking back I will try to throw something up!

]]> http://www.krfarm.net/2012/05/08/s-l-o-w-p-o-s-t-i-n-g-a-l-e-r-t/feed/ 0 Theft must be a problem http://www.krfarm.net/2012/05/08/theft-must-be-a-problem/ http://www.krfarm.net/2012/05/08/theft-must-be-a-problem/#comments Tue, 08 May 2012 12:14:53 +0000 admin http://www.krfarm.net/?p=3865 This wont help in an emergency………

]]> http://www.krfarm.net/2012/05/08/theft-must-be-a-problem/feed/ 0 Done planting corn http://www.krfarm.net/2012/05/05/done-planting-corn/ http://www.krfarm.net/2012/05/05/done-planting-corn/#comments Sat, 05 May 2012 05:06:16 +0000 admin http://www.krfarm.net/?p=3862 Got done planting corn Friday.  The last planted was into dry ground and as I type this its thundering but not raining, again.  It might lay there until it rains.

We shall see what happens all but the last 50 acres or so is up and looking good.  Time for some nitrogen end of next week.

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]]> http://www.krfarm.net/2012/05/03/sounds-like-a-foot-race/feed/ 0 Planting Progress http://www.krfarm.net/2012/05/02/planting-progress/ http://www.krfarm.net/2012/05/02/planting-progress/#comments Wed, 02 May 2012 12:01:52 +0000 admin http://www.krfarm.net/?p=3856 Well, after sitting and waiting on the big rains to come, we only got a lot of thunder and 0.17 inch or rain.

So I planted corn yesterday afternoon.  We got our Pioneer PK plot done and only like 11 acres of corn at this point.

Then its time for beans…………

]]> http://www.krfarm.net/2012/05/02/planting-progress/feed/ 0 Funny Stuff, left over from NRA convention http://www.krfarm.net/2012/04/27/funny-stuff-left-over-from-nra-convention/ http://www.krfarm.net/2012/04/27/funny-stuff-left-over-from-nra-convention/#comments Fri, 27 Apr 2012 20:07:33 +0000 admin http://www.krfarm.net/?p=3850 When we went to the NRA convention we rode the metro link train from Scott to the convention center.  Upon sitting down this sign greeted us.

We all laughed.  Something about going to the NRA convention with a train full of gun nuts and seeing a sign like this made us laugh.

Funnier yet was when we left the convention center and got back on the train to Scott.  If I would have had a dollar for everyone that got on the train carrying a gun case they had just purchased I would have had a BUNCH of money.

There were a few nervous looking Metro security guys on the platforms.

Even funnier was I sat next to a guy who was carrying concealed.  Off  duty police officer.  We could tell before he even admitted to us he was armed.

Still funny today, at least to me……..

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