Clover – Page 7 – NuttyGrass

What’s going on in that Field?

Driving around looking at fields can get a bit confusing…when you don’t know what you’re supposed to be looking at. One of the crop that we grow, crimson clover, usually is planted into fields that had wheat the year before. It’s not always the case that you get every single wheat kernel out of the field. So you end up with “volunteer” crop. This year the fields actually looked more like wheat fields than clover fields.

All the yellow grass looking stuff is the dying wheat.

So we went out and were able to spray a selective herbicide that would kill only the wheat and leave the clover behind to prosper without the competition that the wheat would give to our crop. So now, as the wheat dies off, a few of our fields look really sick.

When underneath the clover is healthy and ready to start grow, especially with the nice warm weather we have been having the past few days!!

Photo Friday…Geese at an All You Can Eat Buffet

I think it’s aboot time for these Canadian geese to head home!! After just a few grazing hours in our clover field this week they did a ton of damage!

On the left is our beautiful tall green clover, on the right is where the grazing happened, leaves totally gone and lots of stems remain.

It still amazes me how fast they can eat through a crop. But when it’s you and 3000 of your closest friends, bulking up for a trip north, at an all you can eat buffet…let’s just say I don’t think they care that it’s our livelihood they are consuming!

I think they got to about 15 acres before we scared them off. So I guess here’s to hoping they leave soon aye?!

WE’RE DONE!!

We’re done with summer harvest!!!!

Peas for freezing – Check
Crimson Clover for seed – Check
Perennial Ryegrass for Seed – Check
Wheat for Seed – Check

Combining wheat is always a little more fun than ryegrass I think. Mostly because you get to cut while you combine. In perennial ryegrass we have to swath at night, wait a week, then combine the already cut rows that look like this.

But in wheat, we make the haircut while also separating the crop from the straw. It looks like this:

We also get to dump on the go, the combine never stops (unless you have a girl like me driving and you have to use the bathroom every hour, sorry dad!)