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Post by Bob O'liver on Oct 23, 2011 7:29:14 GMT -5
How much do you have left? The final push to get the onions is on in this area. Had a couple of days with half inch rain, and it set the harvest back a couple of weeks here. Yesterday in our area there were onion trucks all over. Looked like every onion field had a harvester and trucks. I was thinking if anyone needed to hire a contract hauler in an effort to make sure they had plenty of trucks to keep the harvester running....I think they would be out of luck these last few days. Hopefully one more day today.
Hope your non eventful harvest keeps rolling along.
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Post by kwestfarms on Oct 23, 2011 10:15:13 GMT -5
Bob : All of mine is left!! Goes through the drier , still time for plenty of field drying left......much cheaper than LP gas!!!! Of course you have to plant corn that will stand. John
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Post by glowplug on Oct 23, 2011 13:08:39 GMT -5
Bob,
It's 17% moisture so I've been rolling. Got some rent-free land that gets harvested first, or the deer damage is severe. (Yup, it would be possible to lose money farming no rent land if I waited, so I start when it gets down to 20%.) At this point, I'm 25% done.
Easy going so far as long as we don't get a major rain......
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Post by Bob O'liver on Oct 24, 2011 7:19:27 GMT -5
We had a good day yesterday until the last truck load of the day. The farmer turned on the end to head back up the row to finish the truck load. Set the harvester and turned it on......then squeal, clank, bang. Broke a shaft that turns a fan. I suppose if I had been drug through all the acres of dirt it has been drug through this season, I would have things fail on me....grin.
Out here the corn that is combined, much of it goes to cattle feed. They call it high moisture corn. It is put in a pit, and as I understand they will put sprinklers on it to get it to the moisture level they want. When it sets up in the pit, they tell me it will look a lot like cheese cake. So, a really dumb question, do you fella's grow corn for that purpose?
Speaking of drying corn....about twenty miles west of me, there was a big dryer running last week. Kwest, it looked to me like dollar bills were floating out of the dryer. I thought the same as you, that mother nature was cheaper. I suppose if you have a contract to fulfill, however, you do what you have to do and finish the contract.
For all of you out on the tractors or combines today, BE SAFE and here is wishing you an uneventful harvest day.
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Post by glowplug on Oct 24, 2011 8:02:40 GMT -5
Bob, when corn gets dry in the field, there can be added grain losses when the ear hits the stripper plate, wildlife damage, stalk lodging, rainy weather screwing up late season harvest, etc. My preference is paying to dry down a couple points.
Could roll out the NI 325 corn picker and crib dry it, there ya go Kwest, it's one step above being Amish. Rained late yesterday. More possible Tuesday. Today will be a good day to get 'er done, well get done as much as possible........be safe guys, don't have time to attend funerals...................
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Post by Sofakingwhat on Oct 24, 2011 8:11:05 GMT -5
Got a little over 5000 bushels out saturday with no breakdowns. Not to shabby for a 29 year old combine, 34 year old tractor, a pair of 400ish bu wagons and a 300 bushel wagon. Comedic note was dad pulling the 300 in with the dualled up TW30 while I was in line with the two big wagons and waiting across the road from the co-op to take the empties back to the field while I took the full one back into the line. 30 was a little too wide to make it in the scale. Got a GOOD day or two left, but not much gets done on the weekdays with everyone working opposing shifts in town.
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Post by kwestfarms on Oct 24, 2011 10:08:14 GMT -5
Hey Glow , got something against the Amish? They live and die just like the rest of us! John
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Post by glowplug on Oct 24, 2011 21:22:02 GMT -5
Not at all, John. There's several groups of them in the area. Been invited in their homes for coffee and pie, good eatin'.
Just the fact that a NI 325 corn picker, for cribbing corn is a step up from the Amish system. They either corn binder the corn, set in shocks to dry, then run it through a corn shredder or they hand snap harvest the corn. I'd choose the NI corn picker.
Meanwhile, had a good day on the combine, two farms left to harvest now.
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Post by Bob O'liver on Oct 25, 2011 7:20:41 GMT -5
WE FINISHED!!! It was a push. Twelve hours yesterday and the last onion went to the shed. I sure enjoyed the harvest, however I was glad it came to an end. I compliment you on your upbeat attitude. Seems to me that you just keep your head down and attitude up and get it done.
Kwest, I sure hope things dry down for you and you can get started. I remember back a few years ago (actually many years ago) my father grew corn. They were picking it on a day that was colder than a mother-in-laws kiss. He pulled the trailer with a John Deere A. The day was still and cold and when they sat at the end of the field the "A" would blow smoke rings. As a little kid, I was very fascinated with that.
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Post by kwestfarms on Oct 25, 2011 11:05:12 GMT -5
Bob O : Never take corn out until early to mid Nov. I am in a cold area of Wis. , cooler temps , heavy clay soils. Grow 80-85 day corn that was planted after beans were in this year. Finished up planting June 1.....so will wait at least another 10 days- two weeks. Always a good feeling to be done...can feel that in your last post. John
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Post by ses on Oct 25, 2011 20:22:08 GMT -5
Bob, there is a feedlot west of me 40 miles that takes high moisture corn. Last year they took in 6.6 million bushels and I assume probably did this year again.
I don't think there is as much high moisture corn as there had been. 6.6 million bushels at $6 per bushel is a chunk of change to come up with. Most people's bankers aren't that friendly. lol.
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Post by Bob O'liver on Oct 25, 2011 20:48:23 GMT -5
Bob, there is a feedlot west of me 40 miles that takes high moisture corn. Last year they took in 6.6 million bushels and I assume probably did this year again. I don't think there is as much high moisture corn as there had been. 6.6 million bushels at $6 per bushel is a chunk of change to come up with. Most people's bankers aren't that friendly. lol. HOLY HAWKEYE BATMAN.....6.6 Million bushels. That is a lot of mouths to feed. Will it last through the winter? Rather, how long does it take for them to feed it out?
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Post by ses on Oct 25, 2011 22:03:52 GMT -5
They feed it in one year. It's always in two piles. There is a feedlot in southwest Kansas, that dwarfs that one. Their corn pile is so big four wheel drive tractors look like toys sitting on it.
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Post by Topshot on Oct 26, 2011 17:01:57 GMT -5
Finished today. Started corn at around 24% and ran most around 20-21%. I'm not one to sit and wait on it, figured it isn't worth a dime until it's in the bin and I don't like harvested down corn or i the snow. Of course this year's corn should have stood a long time---there wasn't much of an ear on it to pull it over. Monitor said about 350 ac. average around 115/ac. Guess I should have drank more beer and peed on it more since it didn't rain any.
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Post by glowplug on Oct 26, 2011 22:21:37 GMT -5
Congrats on finishing, Porter. You've earned a lot of future beer.
Had one load test 16% today, the rest at 17%.
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