Air support called in for South Dakota wheat

XtremeAg’s Lee Lubbers and Chad Henderson are simply days away from ending 2022 planting season after which specializing in their wheat crop.

LEE LUBBERS – GREGORY, SOUTH DAKOTA

Lee Lubbers of Gregory, South Dakota, grew up within the farming custom, and remembers effectively utilizing leftover scholarship cash because the down fee for his first tractor and lease for 200 acres. At the moment, he farms greater than 17,000 acres of dryland soybeans, corn, and wheat. Lubbers says probably the most essential issues to him is to all the time be studying and difficult himself to construct an operation and a legacy that the subsequent era might be happy with.

We’re within the residence stretch. We have been deathly dry and chilly up till late April, then we acquired two good rains. We’re extraordinarily blessed to get what we did, nevertheless it made for a later begin. For the final two-plus weeks, we have been operating flat-out planting, spraying, and seeding.

It’s been an excellent arduous push and fortunately, we’re getting near the tip of planting corn and seeding soybeans. We’re hoping to beat the rain this weekend. We have now additionally wanted to run extra planes this yr to get our wheat sprayed as a consequence of having too many windy days and the rain from earlier this month. To remain on monitor, we determined to hit our first move on winter wheat from the air.

We had the chance to trial a brand new Fendt Momentum planter this week and ran a number of of comparisons towards our present planters. Tune in to XtremeAg.farm this season as we shall be speaking concerning the planter and the outcomes of our trials.

We’ve additionally been delivering a big corn contract to an ethanol plant and can begin delivering soybeans to a processor subsequent week. Wanting ahead to having crops within the floor and spending a while with household. Keep protected everybody.

CHAD HENDERSON – MADISON, ALABAMA

Chad Henderson is a part of a fifth-generation farming operation in Madison, Alabama. Henderson Farms operates over 8,000 acres of dryland and irrigated corn, dryland soybeans, wheat, and dryland and irrigated double-crop soybeans. When not farming, Chad might be discovered carrying on one other proud household custom as a drag racer for Henderson Racing.

Two weeks in the past, I’d have mentioned we have been extraordinarily dry. The irrigation schedule was operating two weeks forward of ordinary, and our corn was exhibiting indicators of warmth stress. Then every week in the past we acquired 6 inches of rain through the week. Now we’re very moist once more.

Our wheat would have been prepared to chop this week if we had missed the rain, however the moisture set us again 5-7 days. We hope to begin slicing wheat later this week if the climate cooperates.

Our planters are parked once more ready for the fields to dry up so we are able to end bean planting. Now that we’ve got good moisture, when the bottom permits us to get on it, we’ll have them knocked out shortly.

Our corn is wherever from V3-V8 proper now and our corn high costume is midway finished.

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