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Old 09-22-2017, 11:05 AM
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These pictures are in South Georgia and South Alabama.
Harvest time is earlier down there than in my area of Middle Georgia, probably by 2-4 weeks.
Harvest of cotton and peanuts is probably a month earlier than it was 50 years ago in all of Georgia.
Fifty or sixty years ago, corn was the last of the row crops to be harvested. Now, corn harvest
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My educated guess on yields of the pictured crops: 2.5 tons of goobers per acre, and 2.5 bales of cotton.
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I notice the earlier harvesting of Ohio crops also. I'm really sure it is short duration Hybrids, being planted early in the season. I remember hand picking corn clear into January when I was in 4th & 5 grade (1966-68 school years) and the snow cascading down on you when you chopped the stock. Now, every body uses a $350,000 harvester with a "Corn" head and Air Conditioning! Now the only corn standing after Thanksgiving are fields left up for Whitetail Deer hunting (and maybe for goose hunting too). As to soy beans, I think grandpa's first crop was around 1970 (his dairy heard was becoming too much work so he started doing cash crops!) After 50+ years of farming he retired in fall 1974, and lived until 1987. He always told me he preferred farming with horses, because you couldn't talk a horse into plowing all night!

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Jimmie Rodgers song, here’s Merle’s version.

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Nothing prettier than a field of cotton under a full moon. You may have to be a Southerner to fully appreciate that view.
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My friend in south central Ks has just started harvesting his soybeans.
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Harvest time in Wyoming is a little different. We've been sending out 8 to 10 truck loads of cattle to eat some of that Nebraska corn twice a week since the 8th of August. Finish up next week if it don't snow and close the roads.
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Picking corn here right now. Beans are a couple of weeks out. Cattle won't be off pasture until early October. Crops are a little later this year due to a too wet planting season. Didn't get most of my beans in dirt until after Memorial Day.
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Snow--simply amazing! 92 degrees here today with humidity felt between 98-100 degrees. Hotter this month than ever was during summer. Bow season starts this weekend too. Only thing I will be hunting is air conditioning and a soft couch.
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Snow--simply amazing! 92 degrees here today with humidity felt between 98-100 degrees. Hotter this month than ever was during summer. Bow season starts this weekend too. Only thing I will be hunting is air conditioning and a soft couch.

Univ of Hawaii is coming to play football against the U of WY in a night game this weekend..

7000 feet and suppose to snow Sat night. You suppose those pineapple state kids are gonna have much fun?

They make kick Wyoming's butt, but I'll bet they won't have fond memories of doin' it.
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These pictures are in South Georgia and South Alabama.
Harvest time is earlier down there than in my area of Middle Georgia, probably by 2-4 weeks.
Harvest of cotton and peanuts is probably a month earlier than it was 50 years ago in all of Georgia.
Fifty or sixty years ago, corn was the last of the row crops to be harvested. Now, corn harvest
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My educated guess on yields of the pictured crops: 2.5 tons of goobers per acre, and 2.5 bales of cotton.
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Saw a corn field being picked today nearby and lots of combines getting ready in the fields. Won't be long and the farmers will be at full throttle.
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, I think grandpa's first crop was around 1970 (his dairy heard was becoming too much work so he started doing cash crops!) After 50+ years of farming he retired in fall 1974, and lived until 1987. He always told me he preferred farming with horses, because you couldn't talk a horse into plowing all night!
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Two of Granddad's brothers had a team and wagon in the corn field.
I was about a tall as the wagon wheels.
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Pick up an ear - throw against the bang board on far side of wagon - ear drops into wagon.

Only did this once, but the memory is priceless.

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My mother's family were sharecroppers down in rural South Carolina back in the 1920s. Mom, her sister Wilma, and her two brothers, Odell and Curtis, all worked in the cotton fields or at the gin barn. My mother was seven-years-old and working in a damn cotton field. Her brothers were bad men, but that's another story, and not one to be told on an Internet forum.

Grandpa must have finally scraped enough money together (by bootlegging like his daddy, most likely) and they moved up to York County where Grandpa opened up a little store on what's now Cherry Road in Rock Hill. It's long gone now, of course.

I remember visiting that store as a little boy, seeing Grandpa and his cronies sitting around the stove, looking like something out of a Rockwell painting. Except when you looked closer, and totally unlike a Rockwell painting, they were all gettin' drunker 'n skunks on moonshine whiskey. And yeah, there was a Confederate battle flag hanging on the wall behind the cash register. I remember that scene like it was yesterday, those men sitting around drinking, smoking, and chewing. I couldn't have been more than four-years-old at the time.

Later, when I was older, my grandmother told me a lot of the history of my mother's family, and told me never to tell my mother I knew some of those things. I never did, either.

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The machine digging the peanuts is called an inverter. It digs the peanuts, rolls them over a conveyor
type device, shakes the dirt off the nuts, and leaves the nuts straight up, or "inverted," so the sun
can dry them. In weather like we are having now, over 90* and dry, they will be able to combine those
about the second or third day after digging. They will be dumped on wagons holding five or six tons,
then hauled to the farm or a buying point, where they will be dried using forced heated air.

Many years ago peanuts were dug by simply lifting them out of the ground with smaller tractors and simple
diggers. They were loaded on wagons, and stacked around poles to dry. A stationary combine, usually driven
by a belt pulley mounted on a tractor. The stacks were loaded on wagons and hauled to the combine, or "picker"
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Many good old boys in Kentucky are preparing for the late reefer harvest.

It's our number one cash crop.
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Iggy we had snow this mornin.. Not much but we only live at 4200 ft..The Mountain had plenty Raining here again tonight We've had more'n an inch of rain last 3 days. Keeps doing this and all them mountains will be molehills
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Iggy we had snow this mornin.. Not much but we only live at 4200 ft..The Mountain had plenty Raining here again tonight We've had more'n an inch of rain last 3 days. Keeps doing this and all them mountains will be molehills
Wow!....In the 90's here........We're fighting skeeters with thermocells in our deer stands....Our season comes in August 15th......Nothing much but corn being harvested here now....Next comes cotton......
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My mother's family were sharecroppers down in rural South Carolina back in the 1920s. Mom, her sister Wilma, and her two brothers, Odell and Curtis, all worked in the cotton fields or at the gin barn. My mother was seven-years-old and working in a damn cotton field. Her brothers were bad men, but that's another story, and not one to be told on an Internet forum.

Grandpa must have finally scraped enough money together (by bootlegging like his daddy, most likely) and they moved up to York County where Grandpa opened up a little store on what's now Cherry Road in Rock Hill. It's long gone now, of course.

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Later, when I was older, my grandmother told me a lot of the history of my mother's family, and told me never to tell my mother I knew some of those things. I never did, either.

So yes, old times there are not forgotten, and never will be.
And they were sitting and discussing Marcel Proust.

And Norman Rockwell wasn't so pure as to not stick a jug of squeezins' under the table to hint at ALL that was going on.


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It hasn't been too awful many decades ago, when cotton was king down on the Brazos.


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When I go home next week I'll try to remember to take some pics of them harvesting the sugar cane around the house. They started replanting fields last month and should be harvesting now. The Sugar Cane Festival was held last weekend in New Iberia and that's a pretty good indication when the mills open up for cane.
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When I go home next week I'll try to remember to take some pics of them harvesting the sugar cane around the house. They started replanting fields last month and should be harvesting now. The Sugar Cane Festival was held last weekend in New Iberia and that's a pretty good indication when the mills open up for cane.
No...the Sugar Cane Festival is being held THIS weekend. The cane looks wonderful-my morning walks are along the headlanes in the cane fields and I've enjoyed watching them grow over the year while listening to the Bob White quail calling at sunrise in the bean fields (the farmers grow soybeans in rotation-if the price is good they harvest if not they just plow into the ground). If you do a fly over you can see where the enterprising have carved out little plots in the middle of the fields to grow the OTHER cash crop
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Many good old boys in Kentucky are preparing for the late reefer harvest.

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I heard a tale about them ole Kentucky boys a few years ago, where they were using national and state owned forest lands instead of their own farms; (for THAT money crop), to avoid having their land confiscated.

Common misconceptions about missing a few teeth, shoeless and in overalls; quite often the butt of jokes maybe,... but they don't seem to be lacking any intellect in getting by in life.
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I left one field of corn unpicked one year. Had to pick it when the ducks and geese got in there one day in mid December. Must have been 10,000 birds in there. Price was pretty low but better than no return. I left the corn around the pond unpicked for the geese anyway. I have a friend back east on the Eastern Shore of Md who's 15 yr old son has about 10 acres of corn to pick. Sells it to the deer hunters as "deer corn". Something just seems wrong with that! We called it baiting...but we never did it for deer...just ducks and geese. LOL
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Many good old boys in Kentucky are preparing for the late reefer harvest.

It's our number one cash crop.
Yup, it's erad time in the Commonwealth.........

Helpin' them Good Ol' Boys with their crop in days gone by.





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Hey Keith44spl, Bear guns are often discussed here. What is the best "WEED" gun?
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I heard a tale about them ole Kentucky boys a few years ago, where they were using national and state owned forest lands instead of their own farms; (for THAT money crop), to avoid having their land confiscated.

Common misconceptions about missing a few teeth, shoeless and in overalls; quite often the butt of jokes maybe,... but they don't seem to be lacking any intellect in getting by in life.
As for misconceptions and stereotypes, I imagine some of you remember "Turtle Man" Ernie Brown. Brown is a millionaire businessman who keeps his dental work in place off camera. His schtick is playing the stereotypical hillbilly oaf.

He lives in an area that was for a time the headquarters of the Cornbread Mafia, a hugely lucrative drug cartel. Yes, some of the good old boys do very well indeed.

By the way, I wasn't kidding about weed being our top cash crop. I believe that's still the case. Some of what's grown here is quite highly regarded by connoisseurs, I'm told.
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shouldazagged,

Ya know we got ol Johnny Boone last year....


* As a side note, I testified on behalf of the Commonwealth,
against two members/former members of the 'cornbread mafia'
in a trial, a double homicide, they were charged to have perpetrated...

A few bomb threats, death threats, a lit'l witness tampering and intimidation of jurors,
and after a couple of tries the state would get it's conviction.
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A some what feeble attempt to stay on topic here.......

Cotton on the road side, cotton in the ditch,
We all picked the cotton, but, we never got rich.....

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Hey Keith44spl, Bear guns are often discussed here. What is the best "WEED" gun?
A spray gun with Roundup!! LOL.

Oh I am dense.."WEED" duh

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