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Post by peelergtfb on Oct 9, 2011 20:40:09 GMT -5
Was it just in our area or were everyone's beans extremely dusty this year. I must have blown a 100 pounds of dust off the combine. I hate it when that crap falls down the back of your shirt all through harvest.
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Post by jabber1 on Oct 16, 2011 5:57:59 GMT -5
Was bad here too. Didn't clean the cab filter on the grain cart tractor until yesterday. When I pulled it out, I was wondering how any air got through.
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Post by kcm on Oct 21, 2011 7:09:45 GMT -5
What about shatter? Seems like we always have a few shatter, but this year they started before all the leaves were off. I suspect this might not happen in the good farm country farther north and east, like Iowa and Illinois. Quite a few of the beans I have cut had lost at least 2-3 bushels per acre to shatter. I cut soybeans that looked like silage and would stand in a cone in the bin and still test 10%. This drought thing sucks. I cut 45 acres yesterday for a neighbor and got about 400 bushels of beans.
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Post by peelergtfb on Oct 21, 2011 7:18:16 GMT -5
Pre harvest shatter here is usually not too big of a problem. Mechanical shatter was a big issue this year with the beans going from green and too wet to dead ripe and too dry in a couple of days. It sounded like a machine gun shooting at the cab a few afternoons.
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