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Jun 12
#HumbleBrag
Alley alignment in research plots
(If only the plants weren’t temp leaning due to windstorms)
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Jun 11
4-5” of rain in a weeks time is not doing me any favors for ponding / water retention on research plots
And the 40 mph winds means I need to take apart and reassemble at least 1 weather station
That wasn’t on my bingo card for today
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Jun 11
Planning & scheming is great… but sometimes luck helps too
Orange stakes mark last experiment. The corn to the left with excessive water log is filler
There’s a project to the north that flirts with the water line… but most of touching water should be front or side border
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It’s that time of year ….
Where everyone has reasonable requests of me and my time, but I do not have enough time for everybody’s reasonable requests…. 😢
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Me to me: why can to find these seeds of mine from 2011?
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Checks inventory….
Oh, they’re in agron hall (archive cold room)… guess I put some of my own stocks there once upon a once …
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May 30
One of our undergrads, Kara, got a chance to help machine plant today 😀
She did great!
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May 29
Know what’s great? These ratchet wrenches I picked up to adjust specific parts on the planter
It’s like a socket set and a wrench
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May 27
Me to me:
Let’s be a good tractor operator & map and drive pass 1 quick sans seed to make sure you fit in this new field, that has an unusual shape to it (when planting at heading of 90°)…
😬Oh…. Wait… juuuust barely fits
I’m sure I’ll get some eye roll from farm services😳
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May 27
Start of day…. Machine plant next to 1st planted emerging
End of day… jab plant the delays within footprint of 1st planted
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May 17
Aaaand, with the rumbles starting up in the sky, Gertie Hank (tractor and planter) are put to bed for the night after 4 hours & 10 min planting time for 3 ish acre of one project to be planted before next round of rain
#PhotoFinish
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May 16
Dear Future Lisa:
Add to your maps how much space you meant to leave for turn radius….
You left too much on the start side and pushed a little deeper than you wanted into a potential low spot in the field :/
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May 16
Serenity now… insanity later….
Figuring out someone else’s print system so we can go from our envelopes to their clams….
There are patterns, but of course ‘jumps in patterns’….
Plus some extra clams ‘in case any are are missing… check here’…
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May 16
In other planting stories..
Past Lisa ‘coming in clutch’ with all her photos to document various ‘how to’ for tractor and planter …
Helps me out since I only use the tractor and planter for about 2-3 weeks each May… that’s a rough learning curve
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May 16
Had to call company planter service technician today between planting maps…
he gave a very valid explanation… but essentially….
And whadya know… it worked 🤣
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May 11
Whoever said ‘no use crying over spilled seed’ hasn’t knocked over a box of maize genetics seed packet stocks of mutational events & BC series from early 2000’s (so sometimes min genotype written on the packet)
Luckily it’s just 1/4 of the box that fell out and I need to re-org
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Good news:
Current Lisa remembered she needed to watch a video about 2-row plot mapping before she made a map
Better news:
past Lisa kept the video to a ‘tight’ 3.5 min length 🎉🎉
Not surprising news:
Current Lisa was still slightly annoyed with minor prattle on 😆
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Apr 30
Driving home….
All of the thoughts about to do a ‘work around’ on the seed counter…
And then trying to dictate to Siri to have enough ‘same track of train of thought’…
The work around isn’t perfect, but it might be ‘ok enough’ to make some prep work easier next week🤔
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Apr 28
PSA
One video shows 2 blinking lights = tractors driving on the road
Other video is just 1 blinking light = the tractor is going to turn left
That is NOT the time to attempt to pass them
#FarmSafety
#RoadSafety
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Apr 24
Thanks, past Lisa from ‘25 (and team who operated equipment), I updated the equipment notes for how to best handle substitute seed lot
#HopefullyGettingBitBetterEachYear
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