Longjohn ★ Posted July 26, 2021 Share #1 Posted July 26, 2021 He owns the field on two sides of my property. I don’t know what he planted. It looks like corn but he planted it solid, not in rows. I guess he is making fancy hay for his horses and prize black angus. He is cutting it with a haybine. This looks like his rig except he has a forklift on the front of his tractor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allen ★ Posted July 26, 2021 Share #2 Posted July 26, 2021 Could it be sorghum? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airehead Posted July 26, 2021 Share #3 Posted July 26, 2021 I thought sorghum, too. I thought your neighbors were Amish? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 12string Posted July 26, 2021 Popular Post Share #4 Posted July 26, 2021 28 minutes ago, Airehead said: I thought sorghum, too. I thought your neighbors were Amish? You can't see them behind the tractor pushing it 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longjohn ★ Posted July 26, 2021 Author Share #5 Posted July 26, 2021 34 minutes ago, Allen said: Could it be sorghum? He didn’t let it get tall like sorghum and I don’t think you would harvest sorghum with a haybine, but I’m not a farmer. 35 minutes ago, Airehead said: I thought sorghum, too. I thought your neighbors were Amish? This in McKean, he lives more than a mile away on another road. He owns more than 1,000 acres. He is a college educated farmer. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smudge ★ Posted July 26, 2021 Share #6 Posted July 26, 2021 Alfalfa? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smudge ★ Posted July 26, 2021 Share #7 Posted July 26, 2021 36 minutes ago, 12string said: You can't see them behind the tractor pushing it OMG, that is frickin' hilarious!!!!!!!!!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donkpow Posted July 26, 2021 Share #8 Posted July 26, 2021 Maybe it is silage. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kzoo Posted July 26, 2021 Share #9 Posted July 26, 2021 1 minute ago, smudge said: Alfalfa? Looks like first year alfalfa to me. I know from my time on farms back in NW Pa, not many farmers planted alfalfa - actually none that I knew of. Most hay was Timothy. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kzoo Posted July 26, 2021 Share #10 Posted July 26, 2021 1 minute ago, donkpow said: Maybe it is silage. Donk, you don't plant silage, you make silage from stuff you plant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donkpow Posted July 26, 2021 Share #11 Posted July 26, 2021 2 minutes ago, Kzoo said: Donk, you don't plant silage, you make silage from stuff you plant. Right and at some point you "harvest" it. Then you put it in the silo. Then you feed it to the animals. Then you plant it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BR46 Posted July 26, 2021 Share #12 Posted July 26, 2021 57 minutes ago, Longjohn said: . He is a college educated farmer. According to Mike Bloomberg it's not that hard anyone can be a farmer. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longjohn ★ Posted July 26, 2021 Author Share #13 Posted July 26, 2021 7 minutes ago, BR46 said: According to Mike Bloomberg it's not that hard anyone can be a farmer. He is such a dork. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tizeye Posted July 26, 2021 Share #14 Posted July 26, 2021 It doesn’t look like corn as too low and lacks the broad leaves. Usually, wen plant corn solid rather than in rows, it is to hide the weed tha returns more per acre and harder to detect. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longjohn ★ Posted July 26, 2021 Author Share #15 Posted July 26, 2021 3 hours ago, smudge said: Alfalfa? It might be or any one of the other little rascals. I learned a lot about hay from uncle google today but no closeup of just the plant. He cut it before it started to go to seed. The seed is the giveaway weather it’s Timothy, or alfalfa, or rye grass. These are the leaves. They curled up by the time I got to the house. They were wider. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
12string Posted July 26, 2021 Share #16 Posted July 26, 2021 9 minutes ago, Longjohn said: It might be or any one of the other little rascals. I learned a lot about hay from uncle google today but no closeup of just the plant. He cut it before it started to go to seed. The seed is the giveaway weather it’s Timothy, or alfalfa, or rye grass. These are the leaves. They curled up by the time I got to the house. They were wider. What does it taste like? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longjohn ★ Posted July 26, 2021 Author Share #17 Posted July 26, 2021 Just now, 12string said: What does it taste like? Probably horse feed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kzoo Posted July 26, 2021 Share #18 Posted July 26, 2021 6 minutes ago, Longjohn said: It might be or any one of the other little rascals. I learned a lot about hay from uncle google today but no closeup of just the plant. He cut it before it started to go to seed. The seed is the giveaway weather it’s Timothy, or alfalfa, or rye grass. It is neither Timothy nor rye. Both of those are tall slender grasses. Alfalfa is a legume and has short leafy stems. When the plant flowers (purple) the stems are already getting stiff. A great source of feed for cows as they can handle it. Much more than 50-50 alfalfa/hay is too hot for horses and could kill them. A loose horse left in that field very long will be dead by morning. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longjohn ★ Posted July 26, 2021 Author Share #19 Posted July 26, 2021 He raises both horses and breeding stock black angus so it might be cow food. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thaddeus Kosciuszko Posted July 26, 2021 Share #20 Posted July 26, 2021 6 hours ago, smudge said: Alfalfa? I don't know much about farming, but I do know this is Alfalfa: 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parr8hed Posted July 27, 2021 Share #21 Posted July 27, 2021 On 7/26/2021 at 11:55 AM, Allen said: Could it be sorghum? I don't think so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted July 28, 2021 Share #22 Posted July 28, 2021 On 7/26/2021 at 11:55 AM, Allen said: Could it be sorghum? I don’t remember him, just Alfalfa, Buckwheat, and Spanky. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheep_herder ★ Posted July 28, 2021 Share #23 Posted July 28, 2021 Remember the photo is not of the field in question, and the leaves John showed are of some sort of grass, but probably not sorghum. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted July 28, 2021 Share #24 Posted July 28, 2021 3 hours ago, Philander Seabury said: I don’t remember him, just Alfalfa, Buckwheat, and Spanky. He was the one with no teeth I think. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digital_photog ★ Posted July 28, 2021 Share #25 Posted July 28, 2021 Sudan grass? https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=Sudan+grass We used to raise lots of it for the dairy cows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longjohn ★ Posted July 28, 2021 Author Share #26 Posted July 28, 2021 5 hours ago, Digital_photog said: Sudan grass? https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=Sudan+grass We used to raise lots of it for the dairy cows. Ding ding ding winner winner chicken dinner, This sure as heck looks like it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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