Post by mnjosh on Nov 1, 2011 23:24:39 GMT -5
For the first time in three years, we had a dry harvest. In fact, it has almost been too dry. First done was soybeans. Yield wise they were pretty average in the 30-40 bu/ac range. We did have one small field spike up to around 48 bu/ac. The beans were almost too dry, but the stalks were wet and green and plugged the combine up several times. For us in the upper midwest, we usually can get a good killing frost before or during harvest to kill the plant and then it's dry and goes right through. This year we started on September 26, which is the earliest that I can remember in at least the last 5-7 years. It took about a week to get through almost 200 acres with the mighty Gleaner L2.
This year was also the earliest that I can remember starting corn which we began around October 6. Our corn did not do as well as we hoped. We had 100 acres and it was located at the wrong place at the wrong time. In July around tasseling, we had some strong winds that knocked it over. The overall area affected wasn't that big; it measured about 1.5 miles east and west and 1 mile north and south. Combining was difficult as a lot of it was goosenecked. Yield was affected as it was around 120-150 bu/ac. It did come off dry with it not being much wetter than 16%. Here's the L2 again taking 6 rows.
We added another wagon this year, it is the red one in front. Hauling grain Iowa stlye!
The wagons are apart of our poor man's grain cart system. We have enough storage for about half of our corn crop and the rest goes to town. After the wagons are full they get transferred into the truck.
On October 14, we finished harvest. In a later post I'll have some tillage. Thanks for looking.
This year was also the earliest that I can remember starting corn which we began around October 6. Our corn did not do as well as we hoped. We had 100 acres and it was located at the wrong place at the wrong time. In July around tasseling, we had some strong winds that knocked it over. The overall area affected wasn't that big; it measured about 1.5 miles east and west and 1 mile north and south. Combining was difficult as a lot of it was goosenecked. Yield was affected as it was around 120-150 bu/ac. It did come off dry with it not being much wetter than 16%. Here's the L2 again taking 6 rows.
We added another wagon this year, it is the red one in front. Hauling grain Iowa stlye!
The wagons are apart of our poor man's grain cart system. We have enough storage for about half of our corn crop and the rest goes to town. After the wagons are full they get transferred into the truck.
On October 14, we finished harvest. In a later post I'll have some tillage. Thanks for looking.
