Harvest!

[mbailey]

Looks like you live in Heaven there Whiskey. Beautiful photos sir

Corn and beans all harvested here in Pennsylvania.

Wait....You smell that?  I think it might be......startin' to smell like Deer season aroud here!!

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Mbailey

[Banshee7]

Wait....You smell that?  I think it might be......startin' to smell like Deer season aroud here!!

Technically this IS a harvest:



Was only a 7 point I killed Monday.  THis deer needed to be taken out of the gene pool.  He had the biggest body anyone had ever seen for this area (225lbs--180 field dressed), but his rack wasn't didn't do him any justice.  I didn't bother scoring him

[Plawranc]

Nice work yanks, maybe someday you will be as good as our cattle farmers  .


 

[WWhiskey]

nice pic's
 and thanks to all!

 home, when i was a kid!
it all started here!

[L0nGb0w]

hot damn, I live in Iowa and that's more combines than I've ever seen in one field  to you

[VonMessa]

Here in Illinois there are still fields full of corn awaiting harvest.  It's very strange.  Most farmers are finished long before now, but the wet spring pushed the planting very late this year.

Then on top of that, the corn that has been coming out of the fields this year is very wet, which is good for my Dad and brothers who own and operate a Propane distributing company.  Lots of propane getting sold for corn dryers this year.

The wetness sucked for my garden this year, except for the hops.  They seemed to love it.  I harvested almost 7 pounds this year, almost double the norm.

At 2-3 ounces average per 5 gallons of beer that's around 37 batches or roughly enough hops to make 185 gallons or around 2000, 12 oz. bottles        

  to all farmers out there.

[Meatwad]

Here in Illinois there are still fields full of corn awaiting harvest.  It's very strange.  Most farmers are finished long before now, but the wet spring pushed the planting very late this year.

Then on top of that, the corn that has been coming out of the fields this year is very wet, which is good for my Dad and brothers who own and operate a Propane distributing company.  Lots of propane getting sold for corn dryers this year.

I cant think of the thousands of gallons of propane we sold and delivered to the farmers because of the wet grain. Some took corn to the neighboring elevator that the moisture content was about 30, must were in the 20's.

Here they are still working on getting everything out. Its still wet enough that some are still cutting ruts in places. Cant dry out for nothing around here. But it did get dry enough that we are out spreading fertilizer and did some spraying too

[batch]

holy crap.... they took in corn in the 30s or even the 20s?   alot of elevators wont even accept corn if its above 21 ...... and anything above 15 (which is considered dry) they dock you about 20 bushel per point...... so on average if youre taking in corn at 30.... you just lost about 300 bushel...... didnt hear todays prices but when I took my last in on Sunday it was at $9.80

and here I was holding off an extra week because mine tested 18.2 on Sunday...... was 17.3 on Wednesday and 16.8 this morning..... so after a nice sunny day with a nice slow wind blowing today itll probably be good enough to take it off tomorrow

[PFactorDave]

I cant think of the thousands of gallons of propane we sold and delivered to the farmers because of the wet grain. Some took corn to the neighboring elevator that the moisture content was about 30, must were in the 20's.

Here they are still working on getting everything out. Its still wet enough that some are still cutting ruts in places. Cant dry out for nothing around here. But it did get dry enough that we are out spreading fertilizer and did some spraying too

It's the same up here, but I'm not that far North of you really (Decatur area)...  Around here, the farmers are doing a lot of their own drying simply because the elevators are charging too much for drying.  Definitely a good harvest for the propane guys.  Most of the farmers in my area have figured out they are better off drying the grain themselves and taking it to the elevator dry.

[PFactorDave]

holy crap.... they took in corn in the 30s or even the 20s?   alot of elevators wont even accept corn if its above 21 ...... and anything above 15 (which is considered dry) they dock you about 20 bushel per point...... so on average if youre taking in corn at 30.... you just lost about 300 bushel...... didnt hear todays prices but when I took my last in on Sunday it was at $9.80

and here I was holding off an extra week because mine tested 18.2 on Sunday...... was 17.3 on Wednesday and 16.8 this morning..... so after a nice sunny day with a nice slow wind blowing today itll probably be good enough to take it off tomorrow

Wish you the best of luck, my family has never farmed, but because we sell propane I have a better understanding of what farmers go through every season.

[j500ss]

holy crap.... they took in corn in the 30s or even the 20s?   alot of elevators wont even accept corn if its above 21 ...... and anything above 15 (which is considered dry) they dock you about 20 bushel per point...... so on average if youre taking in corn at 30.... you just lost about 300 bushel...... didnt hear todays prices but when I took my last in on Sunday it was at $9.80

and here I was holding off an extra week because mine tested 18.2 on Sunday...... was 17.3 on Wednesday and 16.8 this morning..... so after a nice sunny day with a nice slow wind blowing today itll probably be good enough to take it off tomorrow

Be happy that yours is drying down in the field, NO ONES is below 23% here, that I have heard of anyway  ( northern IL )  and most are around 30%.   It has not come down at all from 3 weeks ago, and with the heavy frosts we had early, I suspect it will not.  Most guys have no choice but to get it out now and take the dock,  oh, then there is the damage dock as well, 30% corn does not go through a combine without grinding and cracking some,  ours was 11% damage after it came out of our drier yesterday, have not heard about todays yet.

[batch]

ya I was just reading on thursday that only 35% of corn has been taken off here in IL using 5 year averages......

of that only 65% was good quality and something like 7% was rated very poor quality

gonna be a hard year for alot of farmers..... Im just thankful that we didnt get as much rain as alot of the other areas......... although I wouldnt mind a small shower here soon.........put wheat in the ground last week