Gerald Backx

vegetable/cash crop farmer

[Gerald Backx @gbackx]

@MCSLHartung @MitchpRTaggie I’ve always been told “1992, the year summer never came”

[Gerald Backx @gbackx]

@NickPloeg That’s a crummy deal. The past few years have been interesting, I think we could all use a “boring year.” Hope you can get some cooperative weather. Definitely been a disease year all over.

[Gerald Backx @gbackx]

@bradleyvanluyk We have the fans and air bags on the sprayer. We just put it over too ran the fan wide open to try and stir the air a bit

[Gerald Backx @gbackx]

Some attempts at frost prevention this morning, just too close for comfort

[Gerald Backx @gbackx]

@NickMulders13 A bit on the roofs, it looks like some of our corn next to it got singed a bit

[Gerald Backx @gbackx]

@Paulvdb2016 My dad said this morning. at one point his pickup said 2

[Gerald Backx @gbackx]

Bring on some heat, veg crops are off to the races!

[Gerald Backx @gbackx]

Every time I weld whoever is around hears, “Do you know the difference between a welder and a farmer? Welders don’t think they can farm.”

[Gerald Backx @gbackx]

@KosterKen @GaryDeBorger That was my thought. Takes some water volumes to get down to the silks.

[Gerald Backx @gbackx]

@LMcLachlan60 @Shawridgefarm @MdMcLean1 100% Lawrence, you hear stories of how it was. I couldn’t imagine being in those situations, and say I think we are pretty lucky to live in the place and time that we live in now.

[Gerald Backx @gbackx]

@Shawridgefarm @MdMcLean1 @LMcLachlan60 What I don’t understand is why they even needed to vett him. If they took almost any history class they should know if you were fighting the USSR which side that person was on. I find that embarrassing.

[Gerald Backx @gbackx]

@BeansCA @woody_VA @Pasztor79 @apasztor82 We are at 13.75”’for July, it’s been a pretty dependent on whether you got under some of those storms or not. Then 10 minutes east I think it’s been less than 1/2 of that.

[Gerald Backx @gbackx]

@AdamJPfeffer We’ve given that gesture and said some choice words, I think angers the weather and makes it worse basically every darn time

[Gerald Backx @gbackx]

After over 130mm of rain a big thanks to @ZimmerAir for coming to the area today to help get some crop protection products on

[Gerald Backx @gbackx]

@cropdoc2 I loved the science part of college. You’s’ at Ridgetown did a great job of tying it into real life applications, and make you do some critical thinking. Even high school university sciences were great, but really at the time you wonder the real world applications behind it.

[Gerald Backx @gbackx]

A little top dressing today, and a great visit with one of the manufacturer reps on the weekend (@EjMcMillan). And with another lot of fertilizer delivered today we work with some great people in cadag

[Gerald Backx @gbackx]

@wscottjay There was a nice bit of red on the radar, was hoping no one would have gotten that stuff.

[Gerald Backx @gbackx]

Slightly frustrating…..you leave a lane and people still drive equipment in others fields.

[Gerald Backx @gbackx]

@FarmKid92 @farmerschneck @Pasztor79 @MDDavisDLG @Paulvdb2016 @LMcLachlan60 @MaizeingPete That’s how we’ve done it for a long time. We know how many tonnes of each product we need for our blends from soil samples. We get a prepay statement or a contract with the price and tonnes bought.