Where is everyone #5

Our dry farms here use a method called "No till farming " , specifically for barley, and to a lesser extent wheat.

As I understand it, they will leave the stubble through the winter, and then make one pass with an air drill, followed by anhydrous pulled behind the drill for planting in the spring. I believe they also fertilize an additional time after the grain comes up. Perhaps this is weed control though?

Winter wheat and barley is not common unless on irrigated ground.

I'm sure I am showing my ignorance, but since my days working on a farm/ranch during the summers in high school, I have tried to take notice of the farm activities.

From what I gather, your's is as technically challenging business as any other, and I admire that you and your family has managed to hang on, and expand your business! Kudos to you!

 

Butter on steak !.........my man ! Like the way you think !

 

AKA the Golden Corral.

Keep up.

 

..... You do realize that butter doesn't make the steak drier, right ?

 

Wait. I know the standard answer.

YOU DON'T CARE.


And you thought I wasn't paying attention huh ?

 

Dryer, or drier?

 

Sorry my variant prefers the sit downs with bars... it has quite the alcoholic intake agreement apparently.

 

Only guy I've ever known that likes powdered milk straight from the container.

 

Ah ! Someone out there really IS paying attention.
A blow dryer is that indispensable cooking tool for his discriminating taste. He always brings one to the table.
I should have spelled that "drier".

 

Thank you @Oxbow, I appreciate it very much!! I'm glad you guys let me hang here so I can share what we do on the farm.

You have been paying good attention around you and what you said is correct.

We no-till farm here as well. We will go right into standing stubble from last year and by doing that you are conserving soil moisture.
We use disc drills so we hardly disturb the soil, in fact in some situations you can't even tell anything was planted till the crop gets above the stubble.

In wet years no-till farming doesn't work well for us so we have no choice but to work the ground ahead of the seeder to dry the soil out.

In some situations we can't get all the fertilizer down when we do the one pass during seeding. After the crop is up and gets a certain stage you can go out and spray liquid fertilizer over the top with a sprayer, which is called top dressing. We use special nozzles that streams liquid onto the surface.