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Post by duplin97 on Sept 2, 2012 19:15:45 GMT -5
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Post by Southern on Sept 3, 2012 9:56:33 GMT -5
Looks good, you didn't get the tobacco harvest pics? Most our corn looks like ready to harvest in the next week or so. I saw a few fields still with some green as those was planted late.
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Post by duplin97 on Sept 3, 2012 11:58:30 GMT -5
Sadly I wasn't there when they harvested their tobacco. However I hopefully will have a couple of corn and soybean harvest pictures.
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Post by duplin97 on Sept 3, 2012 17:31:33 GMT -5
Samuel if you want to see some of the Tobacco Harvesting equipment (Probably the spraying and planting Equipment too) I can try and get some pictures of them in the next couple of weeks.
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Post by austin7930 on Sept 3, 2012 19:27:12 GMT -5
nice pics....no offense, but from the size of that ear of corn compaired to your hand, that can't be much more than 110 bpa corn........  I've have found drought corn around here like that and i'm very disappointed in it |
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Post by nctobfarmer on Sept 3, 2012 19:32:19 GMT -5
Austin, in NC, we rarely get much more than 175 bpa corn. A lot of times it's in the 110-150 bpa area and is considered a good crop. Corn is not our #1 money maker in this state. Tobacco is still the most profitable per acre by a good margin. Lots of folks are growing sweet potatoes and peanuts as well. Cotton also does well here.
That spraying contraption sure isn't much to look at, but it gets the job done! What was it originally?
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Post by duplin97 on Sept 3, 2012 20:08:22 GMT -5
Austin that ear of corn was off an end row, and for an end row down here that is pretty good.
Nctobfarmer, Soybean lately has been the hottest crop in the east since all of the hog farms started to pop up. Also I wanted to grow a small crop of Tobacco on 10 acres but since it is all through contract that is getting farther from reality. Tobacco is a lot of work but makes a ton of profit it you have a good crop. The Sprayer is completely home made. No manufacture logo on it, all made out of scrap metal. Front tires are from an implement of some sort and the rears look to be off of a Farmall cub.
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Post by Quinton DeDecker on Sept 4, 2012 5:36:32 GMT -5
that sprayer is not homemade, we have the exact same one up here in ontario canada, was built and manufactured by Decloets
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Post by duplin97 on Sept 4, 2012 17:54:47 GMT -5
Oh dang, wow. I swore that thing was homemade, searched all over for a manufacturing/builder label or the remains of one and could not find it.
If possible could you give me the exact model of the sprayer?
Thanks!
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Post by nielsenfarms on Sept 4, 2012 19:42:35 GMT -5
Wow, looking at that picture of the ear in your hand reminds me that I'm a long way from Iowa (Home). But you farm what you can get. Great pics.
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Post by nctobfarmer on Sept 4, 2012 19:46:07 GMT -5
D97, you are right about the soybeans. They are doing well in this part of the state too. My in-laws have a farm in Wilson, and they had about 10 acres totally destroyed by deer. I will try to take a picture of that field when I go dove hunting later this week. What's funny is the food plots I planted a little later on a different part of the farm did fine. The deer at the buds off the plants at about the 4-5 leaf stage and stunted the field. A field of similar size 300 yards down and across a road was fine.
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Post by duplin97 on Sept 4, 2012 20:19:22 GMT -5
As you can guess by the shed decorations, the soybeans around here are well "protected".
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Post by duplin97 on Sept 4, 2012 20:21:10 GMT -5
Southern, next week I will try to get in touch with a couple of tobacco farmers around here and see if any of them are still harvesting.
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Post by Southern on Sept 5, 2012 4:03:35 GMT -5
Thanks, I would like to see some of those pics. I have cotton harvesters pics from the Farm Show at Raleigh a couple of years ago.
Yeah corn isn't our big crop. The best we get is like the others said around 100-150 range. Corn never grew well in our area. In the past only time you saw corn being grown was for animal feed. However cotton is a big producer in our climate and soil. That is how my area used to look like in the past when cotton was really King. We had 3 local gins trying to keep up. Now its lot different after cotton prices bottomed out.
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Post by Quinton DeDecker on Sept 5, 2012 14:14:19 GMT -5
im not sure on the model number, but it has alot of custom parts and stuff on it, i can get a pic of ours when it is in the barn next time, only thing diff is this one has square tubbing front and back and ours has round but ours was used as a priming machiene to
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Post by nctobfarmer on Sept 5, 2012 19:31:30 GMT -5
As you can guess by the shed decorations, the soybeans around here are well "protected". Yeah, I'm looking forward to Oct. 15th when I can start knocking some down to! |
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I've have found drought corn around here like that and i'm very disappointed in it
