Post by 70ds on Nov 22, 2009 13:11:12 GMT -5
November has been a more productive month than October was. The weather has became a lot more favorable for getting some crops out of the field. We have been finished up with our milo for a little over a week now. So any spare time we have had we have been putting up electric fence around milo stalks and moving cows. That has been the morning projects before we can roll with the combines. Minkler Harvesting is still working on milo for some customers. They should finish up their last field of it today. Then they will be switching to corn. Here they are a week ago in the morning waiting to roll.
The milo yields were good this year. The farm average was right around 120 bpa. We are glad to be done with that itchy stuff. This took place about a week ago finishing up milo.
The grain cart operators haven't had to worry about getting bored this year. Those 3 combines in good milo are keeping them busy. When we get into corn they are really going to be busy. ;D
Parked in the last field of milo ready to roll.
After the milo was finished we brought the combines home to switch to corn.
I grabbed my 8010 and went to a field that was close to the farm to see if the corn was dry enough. It was 16.5 so I decided to roll. I called for a semi and told them to bring the other combines and carts.
I had a semi load picked before the other combines and carts got there. The yield monitor was showing 200 plus at times which is phenomenal for dry land corn in North Central Kansas.
We were taking this to our storage so at least we had a short haul and took some of the pressure off of the trucks.
We have been picking for a week now and it has been going good so far. We have been having a little trouble finding corn that is under 18 moisture. We may end up having to run our dryer this year. We are starting to think seriously about buying a higher capacity dryer because ours is old and will only do about 800 bushels per hour. There is no way it will even come close to keeping up with one of our combines let alone 3.
If we start it we will have to run it 24 hours a day and maybe park a combine. So hopefully we will be able to stay in dry corn and the wetter corn will dry down some before we get to it. That is all for now questions and comments welcome.
The milo yields were good this year. The farm average was right around 120 bpa. We are glad to be done with that itchy stuff. This took place about a week ago finishing up milo.
The grain cart operators haven't had to worry about getting bored this year. Those 3 combines in good milo are keeping them busy. When we get into corn they are really going to be busy. ;D
Parked in the last field of milo ready to roll.
After the milo was finished we brought the combines home to switch to corn.
I grabbed my 8010 and went to a field that was close to the farm to see if the corn was dry enough. It was 16.5 so I decided to roll. I called for a semi and told them to bring the other combines and carts.
I had a semi load picked before the other combines and carts got there. The yield monitor was showing 200 plus at times which is phenomenal for dry land corn in North Central Kansas.
We were taking this to our storage so at least we had a short haul and took some of the pressure off of the trucks.
We have been picking for a week now and it has been going good so far. We have been having a little trouble finding corn that is under 18 moisture. We may end up having to run our dryer this year. We are starting to think seriously about buying a higher capacity dryer because ours is old and will only do about 800 bushels per hour. There is no way it will even come close to keeping up with one of our combines let alone 3.
If we start it we will have to run it 24 hours a day and maybe park a combine. So hopefully we will be able to stay in dry corn and the wetter corn will dry down some before we get to it. That is all for now questions and comments welcome.
