It may not look like much yet, but this is 5 weeks early! Around here March set a record as the warmest March ever. Normally we see temps like this in May.
Before he left, we had a storm with horrible winds and almost 100 acres of our wheat was blown flat on the ground. It had headed, but not begun the milk stage yet, so the tops were not really heavy. I tried to point out that the stems didn't seem to be broken, just layed-over, so I thought it would stand back up after the sun came out for a day or two. He strongly disagreed. It was so much fun to call him several days after he arrived in Bozeman to tell him that the wheat field looked just like it did before the storm. Every last stem had stood back up!
I picked some wheat heads a couple of days ago that are, I kid you not, 5-6 inches long. If it fills out those kernels, that is going to be some great wheat!
Good luck with your taters! 50 lbs. of seed? My goodness, you are industrious. I also love it that you're still using the old Ford tractor. We have a IH 856 that is older than me that still goes strong. We had the engine overhauled 3 years ago because one of our field hands ran it out of oil. It is a pain to shift, etc., after driving my new John Deere with the hydrastat. I like one pedal for forward and another for backward.
Glad to hear your wheat recovered...with a vengeance.
We got the tractor, and a set of tire chains for it, last fall in barter for a large load of scrap metal. I needed it, since the old JD tacked dozer died beyond any economically sensible recovery, to clear snow in the winter. I sold the dozer to a JD hobbiest who does his own work, and used part of that money to buy a new distributor, carb kit, boom-pole, middlebuster, and drag blade for it.
The dozer buyer did get it running...and promptly threw a rod though the side of the block. We had bought it on eBay some years ago, and had driven to Mountain Home, ID to trailer it home. I used it to repair/rebuild our ranch roads; drag logs; and clear snow, so we got our use out of it.
It may not look like much yet, but this is 5 weeks early! Around here March set a record as the warmest March ever. Normally we see temps like this in May.