Last evening before I started working at the computer doing my medical transcription, dad asked me about taking pictures of the summer fallow that was supposed to have been sprayed to kill the pig weeds and fire weeds and sandburs. He is supposed to be planting wheat in this field in 3 weeks and cannot do that with all these weeds growing and taking the moisture from the ground. So we got in the pickup, mom's camera in hand and took a jaunt around the field of summer fallow. I was snapping pictures right and left. There were some spots that looked like the sprayer had not even ventured in. Lots of GREEN HAPPY WEEDS all over the place. There were pigweeds that were at least 4 feet tall and 3 feet wide out there. That is not something you want to try to plant through, not even no-till.
Will see what dad decides to do. There may not be a winter wheat crop this year. We might have to go to milo for this section of farm ground next spring.
Either way, we need SNOW and RAIN and any kind of moisture that mother nature wants to toss our way over the next 6-8 months.
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