Fernwood Farms Journal #5 - Soybean Harvest.

[JD_4630]

You can diffently tell fall is here. The long hot steamy days are gone, and replaced by short cool cloudy days, geese are flying South, along roadsides are trailers and wagons littered with orange pumpkins for sale, you can hear combines hmmming in fields and wagons rattling down the roads.

This week Fernwood Farms hired their neighbor to start harvesting some early beans that were planted on high ground. Since the farm is very small it is just easier for them to hire someone with large update to date equipmemt.

Thanks for viewing as usual any comments or questions are more than welcome.

[ramman00]

Lookin good:)

[Reese]

Nice to see a small head on a combine for a change. How many acres of beans did you have and how well did they do?

[JD_4630]

Reese: In my area a lot of farmers still run "smaller" heads on newer combines, there's areasoning behind it. 1) Road travel its easier and faster to leave the head on especially if its a one man operation if no one is around to pull the head behind a truck. 2) A lot of smaller farmers plant with "smaller" equipment yet such as 4, 6, and 8 rows, and hire a larger neighbor to harvest, the smaller head matches up to the rows better. 3) Older farmers either retire or rent out the land to a large neighbor. The bigger newer equipment can't fit or turn around in the smaller fields.

I really don't go much into detail on my layouts on pretend acerage. My display represents a small hobby beef farm where the cattle mostly graze. For the equipment I have it represent somewhere between 80 - maybe 200 acres.

From what I've been seeing and hearing yields are actually above average for beans and most areas are 10 to 13 percent moister.

Ramnman00: Thanks, most of my displays that I build are fall themed due to all the possible farm action, the different colors and fall decorations that can be added for that time of the year.

[farms]

I like your farm set up