Rep Retirement Lodge 137: Counting the long summer days

[MarkEagleUSA]

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Good morning to tLodge!

 

[Ralph Baer]

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Good Morning, MEUSA!


Good Morning to the rest of tLodge!

 

[Ralph Baer]

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leswp1, I sent you an email.

 

[JF_Gophers]

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Morning!

 

[FlagDUDE08]

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Good Morning Lodge.

 

[bigblue_dl]

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Good Morning

This sounds like it will be one of those days I'll be glad that I work in an air conditioned office.

 

[Lady wore Black]

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Good Morning, Lodge!

3-day week and then off to Minnesota. Plan is to come back to Wisconsin, put in my 2-weeks notice, and move back to Minnesota. I hope it all goes well.

 

[melmac]

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Oooh... Good Luck, LwB!!!

 

[goldy_331]

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Morning Lodge.

He should probably teach the arrogance portion.

Nah, there's a kid there whose dad and two uncles played for the Gophers and all had brief pro careers, dad is still a player's agent. Kid has been on lots of top teams his whole life and has at least one State title. He has way more reasons to be arrogant than my kid.

Good luck to dx and LwB! Biddco too, if he ever gets off his butt and gets those apps in!

 

[nmupiccdiva]

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Good Morning, Lodge!

3-day week and then off to Minnesota. Plan is to come back to Wisconsin, put in my 2-weeks notice, and move back to Minnesota. I hope it all goes well.

Yaaaay! Good luck to you! Are you trying to end up in the Cities or back in the St. Cloud area?

That helps. A lot


Although partially offset by not having a non-subbing job lined up for the fall...

I need to get substitute teacher apps in this week...

Yeah, about that... I suppose I should think a bit more about doing that. Even with this management gig, I suppose the extra money and foot in the door couldn't hurt, right?

'Morning, kids! July = survived, and even though I've been acting in it for a few weeks now, today I officially start my assistant manager and director of marketing and sponsorships gig.

 

[goldy_331]

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OK, CIty Boy question for the farmers in the crowd. Yesterday when driving back from the lakes I saw A field of corn where there were 4 or 5 rows of shorter plants with no spreading tops and then a row significantly taller with those tops. This was repeated consistantly for the whole field. None of the other fields of corn were like that. What was up with that filed? Did the farmer get a different hybred in one resevoir of the planter, or what?

 

[bigblue_dl]

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OK, CIty Boy question for the farmers in the crowd. Yesterday when driving back from the lakes I saw A field of corn where there were 4 or 5 rows of shorter plants with no spreading tops and then a row significantly taller with those tops. This was repeated consistantly for the whole field. None of the other fields of corn were like that. What was up with that filed? Did the farmer get a different hybred in one resevoir of the planter, or what?

That would be seed corn. When it is planted they plant 2 different varieties of corn, usually 5 rows of variety A, 1 row of variety B, 5 rows of variety A...etc. Since it is seed corn, they have to control the germination of the plants. In corn the 2 different "sex organs" are the tassle, at the top of the mature plant, and the silk, the stringy stuff on the cob. In seed corn they only want the tassle from one of the varieties to germinate the entire field, so they de-tassle the alternating 5 rows that aren't the correct variety. So essentially, this is how they create a new hybrid, they only use the tassles from one variety to germinate the other.

 

[hockeyplayer1015]

OK, CIty Boy question for the farmers in the crowd. Yesterday when driving back from the lakes I saw A field of corn where there were 4 or 5 rows of shorter plants with no spreading tops and then a row significantly taller with those tops. This was repeated consistantly for the whole field. None of the other fields of corn were like that. What was up with that filed? Did the farmer get a different hybred in one resevoir of the planter, or what?

Erectile dysfunction. That's my only guess.

 

[leswp1]

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Anyone else see the connection here?

I did. does that make me bad?

Interview with a major local chemical company tomorrow. Wish me luck!

Good luck.

leswp1, I sent you an email.

I will look. Working off my netbook which somehow erased my favorites bar I have to remember how to get on the email acct.

Good Morning, Lodge!

3-day week and then off to Minnesota. Plan is to come back to Wisconsin, put in my 2-weeks notice, and move back to Minnesota. I hope it all goes well.

Good luck with that.

That would be seed corn. When it is planted they plant 2 different varieties of corn, usually 5 rows of variety A, 1 row of variety B, 5 rows of variety A...etc. Since it is seed corn, they have to control the germination of the plants. In corn the 2 different "sex organs" are the tassle, at the top of the mature plant, and the silk, the stringy stuff on the cob. In seed corn they only want the tassle from one of the varieties to germinate the entire field, so they de-tassle the alternating 5 rows that aren't the correct variety. So essentially, this how they create a new hybrid, they only use the tassles from one variety to germinate the other.

Learn something new every day.

GOOD MORNING EVERYONE!! moanin' monday.

Life is good

 

[Greyeagle]

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Good morning.

That would be seed corn. When it is planted they plant 2 different varieties of corn, usually 5 rows of variety A, 1 row of variety B, 5 rows of variety A...etc. Since it is seed corn, they have to control the germination of the plants. In corn the 2 different "sex organs" are the tassle, at the top of the mature plant, and the silk, the stringy stuff on the cob. In seed corn they only want the tassle from one of the varieties to germinate the entire field, so they de-tassle the alternating 5 rows that aren't the correct variety. So essentially, this is how they create a new hybrid, they only use the tassles from one variety to germinate the other.

I detasseled in Jr. High, what an awesome job. Worst job ever but good money for 7th-8th-9th grader We were mostly south of Hastings, could have been traipsing around bb's ranch.

My niece is a plant biologist for Pioneer Seed, works in Mankato. She's basically been living in the fields for the past several weeks as the corn moves towards maturity (right term?).

 

[bigblue_dl]

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Good morning.


I detasseled in Jr. High, what an awesome job. Worst job ever but good money for 7th-8th-9th grader We were mostly south of Hastings, could have been traipsing around bb's ranch.

My niece is a plant biologist for Pioneer Seed, works in Mankato. She's basically been living in the fields for the past several weeks as the corn moves towards maturity (right term?).

I think you have got the basics down.
Yeah, south of Hastings is around my area. We're south of the Cannon River, and I think most of the seed corn would have been north, along Hwy 61, in the Miesville area. Still, only about a 15 minute drive from our farms.

I never detassled, I was busy working for my dad, but I spent enough time running around in corn fields as a kid to know how much that would be a hot, humid and itchy job.

 

[Lady wore Black]

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Yaaaay! Good luck to you! Are you trying to end up in the Cities or back in the St. Cloud area?

Either one. I am pulling every single string I have up there to move back. My interview is in Rodgers, but I am also looking at a place in Rosemount and one in St. Cloud.

 

[Greyeagle]

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I don't think we went that far south, seemed like we were closer to the Mississippi, probably close to Treasure Island and I also remember being in the neighborhood of Hidden Greens & Bellwood Oaks golf courses.

 

[bigblue_dl]

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I don't think we went that far south, seemed like we were closer to the Mississippi, probably close to Treasure Island and I also remember being in the neighborhood of Hidden Greens & Bellwood Oaks golf courses.

OK, the golf courses are between Miesville and Hastings along 61, so that is kind of where I thought it would be. They have bigger fields up that way, which the seed companies prefer.

 

[state of hockey]

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Got a pretty good chuckle from the shirt the "Idiot College Freshman" is wearing on theCHIVE.