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Corn & Soybean crop maturity & Harvest Progress in your neck of the woods?

Started by HOGFARMER, August 30, 2009, 09:45:09 PM

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Norm

We finished up harvest on Saturday! 8) 8)

My buddy who combines for us had me running carts for him but I'm so slow he made me run his new combine. Patty rode with me and we finished up at 3:30PM that afternoon.



Yields were good but everything is wet so we got dinged hard on the soybeans and the corn averaged around mid 20's moisture. We had some bottom ground corn that went over 300bu in spots but we averaged 225bu dry yield on all of our corn ground. Beans were around the low 60's averaged on the 2 fields we had them in.

Next is trying to get some fall tillage in.



This is the first time I've ever used a big 4 wheel drive articulated tractor. It has tons of power and traction but the ride is kind of rough. The 16' chisel does make it go pretty fast though.



Later on that day I had my  best farm hand come out to check out Grandpa's new toy.



The weather is supposed to be nice the rest of the week so hopefully they'll have the dry fertilizer spread so I can finish up chiseling.


fishpharmer

300 bu corn is awesome.  Glad you got it done.  That big JD looks like a handy tool to have for that big chisel.  How many HP?

Bet the little farm likes the big JD as much as you. ;)

Are you putting dry fertilizer out for wheat?
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Norm

The JD is 300HP, it's an 86 model that you can buy pretty cheap because they were know for a weak engine.

We don't do winter wheat here, some have tried it with a soybean rotation but most have given it up.

Ayden loves tractors but when he saw this one his eyes got big and he didn't say one word the whole ride.  :D

nas

Quote from: Norm on November 10, 2009, 01:15:06 PM
Ayden loves tractors but when he saw this one his eyes got big and he didn't say one word the whole ride.  :D
You know their impressed when.... :-X :o 8)
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Coon

Is the tractor an 8650 by chance?  If so that 16 foot chisel plow is pretty small for that tractor unless you are working the ground pretty deep.  Those tractors seem to run alot better if you work them fairly hard but still not over doing it at the same time. 

We should be finished harvesting by mid afternoon tomorrow, as we only have around two hundred acres of wheat left.  We very well could have still been copmbining at this very minute but within a couple of hours we would have been caught up to the swathers.  We have to swath this wheat, that we normally would have straight cut, due to the snow and rain knocking it down to about six inches off the ground. 

Will get some pics of the harvesting tomorow.

Brad.
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Norm

Brad it is an 8650 and you're right the chisel is undersized but it's paid for so that's what we use. On the plus side the JD barely grunts and the chisel does go down nice and deep.

Looking forward to your harvest pictures.

Ed

Beans are dissapearing real quick around me. The couple guys I've spoken to were getting mid 50's for yeild. Moisture was up a little, but nobody is waiting around for it to get better, most are way behind.
The farmer across the road moved in about 5:30 last night, by 10:00 the 90 acres was close to being history. He had 2 Deeres with 30' headers.
Corn is another story....in our fields the ears have dropped but the corn hasn't even gotten hard yet. You can still smash the kernels between your fingers.  :( No idea when it'll be dry enough to harvest.

Ed

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We have thousands of acres of soybeans and cotton in our Northern counties that will not be harvested due to flooded fields.  The yield was low anyway due to the dry weather this Summer.  Talk about backwards.....
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Don_Papenburg

Finished soybeans two weeks ago .  Best yeild I got was 54bu/a with Liberty link beans .  My ground tends to yeild on the lower side.  and it would make that 8650 grunt with the 16' chisel.   I have an 8430 just rebuilt the motor last year it is kicking out about 220 hp . That makes the fall work go  a bit faster.
We have started corn our driest so far has been  26.5 %  The elevator has been closing at about noon so the dryer can cacth up.  We have about a quarter of the corn out.
Normal year we are done with field workby  two weeks ago.
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Coon

We finished harvesting today at aout 5 pm.  8)  8)   The wheat came off tough but it is binned and ready to go to the drier.  It was testing 17.5%.  We were in a very scenic area today to top it all off too.  ;D  Some pics to prove it too.   ;)





















Brad.
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Norm

Thanks for the pics Brad. That looks similar to how we do oats but on a much bigger scale. What size combines are you running?

Faron

I hope to finish beans today.  One field we finished yesterday looked like we might be able to lay tile when we finish with corn.  It has an old system on 60'.  We are going to install a second shallower system on 40'.
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Coon

Those combines in the pictures are JD 9770 STS's with the Bullet Rotors. We have three of them and a friend was out with his New Holland CR940.  I never managed to get any pics of the New Holland as it always seemed to be at the other end of the field when I had the camera out.  Those JD combines now go back to the dealer as we traded them in on three brand new ones. Normally don't trade them in with this few of hours but getting a really good deal on new ones.

The swathers normally help to dry out the crop before combining except in this case.  Normally we straight cut all the wheat but this stuff was all flattened to the ground by snow and rain.  It will definately be a harvest to remember as normally there is no harvesting being done in November due to snow.  We had 41 days of bad weather and had not combined sive September 30th.

Brad.
Norwood Lumbermate 2000 w/Kohler,
Husqvarna, Stihl and, Jonsereds Saws

Gary_C

What do you do with all that straw? Looks like pretty heavy windrows to just till into the ground.
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Coon

Well there wasn't much straw left after we were through.  :D  Straw was pretty much rotten after it had been wet for so long.  The staw choppers on the combine cut it up pretty fine.  In any instances where there is too much straw we simply heavy harrow on a warm and windy day before seeding.  It usually busts up pretty good.  We seed everything down for the most part with zero till.  There are some cases where we pre till if the land is rutted and rough.  On 13,000 acres we usually end up pre tilling about a 1,000 acres at the most.

Brad.
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trapper

I have 40 acres i rent to the neighbor.  he harvested the beans last week and the corn today.
he estimated 140 bushel per acre on the corn.
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fishpharmer

I travelled through NE Mississippi on Friday morning.  Around 11:00 am there were lots of combines running in rutted bean fields.  Its still wet.  As a matter of fact, resevoirs on the west side of the state aren't releasing any more water
than they must until Delta crops are harvested.  There's gonna be some flooding when they do.
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