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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: WWhiskey on October 01, 2009, 03:58:38 PM
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Well silage harvest is almost over!
luckily my mom got some good pictures this year!
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Way cool ,,Makes me wish fo rspud harvest again .
But I must ask What is the differnce between seed corn and regular corn ?
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:O I live deep in corn country and that's big time farming even by our standards (Iowa).
I guess they really do, do it bigger in Texas :lol :salute
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Some silage was cut by here, but not as much as last year. Seems there was more alfalfa then usual since it was so wet this spring.
Some beans are being cut and just a sliver of corn is ready. Harvest here will be late. Some may not even be ready by the time we get our first frist
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Corn's being shelled and beans are being cut around here...but I can't wait til cotton season
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I probably got 2-3 weeks (hoping dry days) before my beans are ready......... and probably a week or 2 after for corn......... was cold and wet start this year so everything got in a little late round here
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Eastern Oregon: Corn being harvested, onions- LOTS of onions, and sugar beets will follow when it frosts real good.
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We had a very wet planting season. The majority of the fields we had set for cotton was flooded, so we had to plant beans because it was too late for cotton when it dried. We still have a lot of cotton on the high grounds.
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Nice Pictures Whiskey. I'll try to get some pics when the cotton harvest comes around :aok
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As promised here are some pictures from yesterday. This year we only had 800 acres of cotton, so I didn't work for the farmer. Although, it has been a tradition since I was a little kid to ride in the pickers or help around. As I got older I was driving...
Cotton being dumped into the module builder
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Last few acres of cotton left in my field
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Me actually driving the cotton picker and dumping into the boll buggy
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Sorry for the bump
Again, me driving, with my partner "Cup" standing outside the cab
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Yall hit any baseball players out in them corn fields?
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Saying that farm dwarfs any with which I have experience is an understatement. That is quite the operation! You just don't see farms that big in Western NY...
<---- Hand-picked HVA for the most part.
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I thought you harvested corn after it already dried out in the field.
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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.
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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
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Wait....You smell that? I think it might be......startin' to smell like Deer season aroud here!!
Technically this IS a harvest:
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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
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Nice work yanks, maybe someday you will be as good as our cattle farmers ;).
:aok
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nice pic's
and thanks to all!
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home, when i was a kid!
it all started here!
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hot damn, I live in Iowa and that's more combines than I've ever seen in one field :salute to you
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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 :aok :rock
:salute to all farmers out there.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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