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2020 Crop
Aug 26, 2020 0:31:25 GMT -6
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Post by snapper22 on Aug 26, 2020 0:31:25 GMT -6
Not much going around here for harvest yet. Canola probably next week before we cut. Early hrs variety I grow not quite ready to preharvest nor the oats I seeded right after. Feed barley last seeded needs time before I think about swathing. By virtue of being a smaller operator and selecting shorter maturities my crops are a lot more advanced than others but it’ll be a while before we make dust. At least all the feed is made and old grass stands terminated and in the process of spiking it until steering motor decided to blow oil. To me this looks like an average crop with canola looking slightly better. Cereals I just can’t see enough plants and seeds per foot for much above an average crop. Seen a Producer article about possibility the prairie crop might not be as big as the experts claim. No kidding. Pedestrian ag journalism at its best.
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Post by torriem on Aug 26, 2020 7:38:12 GMT -6
Down here in southern Alberta, wheat harvest is well under way. Yields are decent. Our irrigated yields are about average. Dryland, on the other hand, is well above average. 20 bu/ac is pretty normal for continuous-cropped dyland. I am hearing reports of 70-80 bu/ac hard red spring wheat. I'm sure durum will be in the same range. Pretty astounding for our dry climate. Given their lower input costs and with prices over $7/bu right now, I think they will make some good profit. Which is a nice change from the last two years. A lot of farmers are shipping right off the combine this year.
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Post by jaymo on Aug 26, 2020 7:49:57 GMT -6
We started spring wheat this week. Its actually yielding pretty good. Most of this was seeded into soft, muddy ground, but then no rain for a month and just a few timely rains at the end of June and July.
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Post by meskie on Aug 26, 2020 10:50:22 GMT -6
Mostly just barley combined around here. It’s all over the map. Ours on some poor fields was in the 60s. My uncle has some that’s in the high 90s. And the neighbours are in between. Few peas are harvested also. They are from 20-50 from what I’ve heard.
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Post by hardrockacres on Aug 26, 2020 12:38:41 GMT -6
Just barley done around here also. Most is yielding well - 2 row is at 90+, but bit of rain last week and the neighbors samples were stained already, swathed Sunday and combined on Monday. Bit of desiccating has started. East of us I see some canola knocked down. I am likely to spray cereals this weekend and start cutting early canola, maybe tomorrow or Friday.
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Post by generalchaos on Aug 26, 2020 19:07:28 GMT -6
Swathed 110 acres of canola today. Some was shattering and some was grass green. Very uneven germination.
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Post by SWMan on Aug 26, 2020 21:28:06 GMT -6
Um, I should amend my comments on the pea yield from yesterday. Apparently I did that 20 acres of Chromes with the rock trap open. ;-| They might actually have a small edge on Carver for yield after today's acres, still with less rain.
Mental note to check that rock trap is closed after cleaning combine from now on...
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Post by victory on Aug 26, 2020 22:17:17 GMT -6
Bit surprised that Claas didn't put a sensor on for that. Not a huge fan of sensors all over the place. Just more things to fail. When it affects the pocket book, the mental note usually starts working better. I know what that feels like.
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Post by Oatking on Aug 26, 2020 22:37:13 GMT -6
This is turning out to be the best yields in 21 years on my farm in the red river valley. I just hope the weather will cooperate and collect everything out there. Cereals are done oats range from 140 - 200 depending which quarters got more rain , wheat averaged 70, and the canola is looking like low 60s. Again hope weather is on our side. The hrs is grading a 1 13.3 pro which I was surprized because it was not nice and red looking anymore but I guess that doesn't affect quality. Flax is still a week and a half away and my early soybeans, nsc gladstones are starting to turn. To be honest I thought the wheat looked beter but the dryness must have taken its toll. Usually 70 is pretty good but at 6.50 a bushel , it doesn't pencil out to well. Combining is brutally slow but when the yields are bumper it makes the day enjoyable. Sw man what size header are you running on your new clause. That's a pretty sweet machine. Is it true , I heard in the mid west where corn yields 400 bu an acre they thrash 7200 bushels of corn an hour. Man that's 7 semi tandem trailer loads an hour. My word, My 13 by 85 farm king would never keep up to that combine. I had a scary moment 2 days ago, My tv140 was hooked up to my farm king and was backed up to the bin. I was maybe tired or what ever but I failed to check if the hydro was in neutral. I drove off and when I came back the tv 140 was slowly creeping across the yard towards my new 60000 dollars alum trailer. Yeah you can guess what I almost did. Always reminded to slow down and be careful especially when the eyes are red!haha
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Post by warreng on Aug 27, 2020 6:56:22 GMT -6
how much do you figure fell to the ground through the open rock trap ??
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Post by SWMan on Aug 27, 2020 11:43:53 GMT -6
Victory I kind of thought the same, can't drive across the field in second gear and separator off with a Claas bleeping at you that the hopper is open, but nothing on the feeder house. Won't catch me asking for more sensors though, my job to watch that stuff.
Oatking there are some crazy high numbers from down in the USA midwest in corn. Best I have done is 4000 bu/hr give or take in corn and in oats with a 780, usually wheat is 1800-2400/hr, canola 1300 and these peas have been around 1600/hr at like 40-50% power level because of caution on belt slippage. Straw is pretty tough and running 180RPM on the cylinder for seed production. Slow and steady gets it done. Glad your crop is good, stay safe and get some rest. Lots of time to get the crop off yet.
Warren I was looking today on the ground, not much loss from what I saw. I was thinking 10 bu/acre missing but not sure it was that bad. I think when feeder goes down it closes most of the gap. First day I did some headlands which could have been poorer to start with.
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2020 Crop
Aug 30, 2020 8:12:44 GMT -6
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Post by kenmb on Aug 30, 2020 8:12:44 GMT -6
Started my Metcalfe barley yesterday, running just over 60 bu/ac on 100 ac combined (400 seeded) so best barley crop yet. This is with 4.5" rain from late April to mid Aug. Was around 120 lbs of a nitorgen/mesz blend in fertilizer band and 35 lbs mesz in seed band. Had good soil moisture in spring yet still seeded through every low spot on the farm, some places never seeded before. Seems like heavy barley, fits easily into moisture tester seed cup. My pea/thistle intercrop was more of what I was expecting at 30 bu/ac. Grew well in the low areas but any kind of elevation or sandy ground and just little tufts of plants. Massive explosion of Canada thistle and sow thistle this year in my peas. Going to be a few years of getting those back under control.
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Post by kevlar on Aug 30, 2020 8:54:41 GMT -6
Harvest 2020 is starting out like harvest 2019 ended. Just can't get 2 good days in a row. Have 390 acres of barley off, been 6 days combining, and only 10,000 bushels of it dry, running the rest through the dryer. Yesterday was the nicest day so far, was cooler with low humidity, but still didn't come dry until supper time, then we go maybe 4 hoppers off before we were back in the wet bin. Raining today, third rain since we started. Up until yesterday, it was so hot and humid, 70-90% humidity, so we couldn't even start until 4 o'clock, then tough by 10. Fields are getting close to being wet again, only one or two more decent rains and we will be wet. We are only dropping the oat straw this year for a guy, and only because he had nothing else he could find, we didn't want a repeat of last year where guys couldn't get the bailing done or bales off until it froze. We desperately need to get some spraying done, fields are a disaster, last 3 falls we couldn't get an acre sprayed, it shows. Last night looked promising, wind picked up and little dew, then we broke a chain that drives the clean grain elevator at midnight, a couple more hours would have finished the field we were in. Anyone who has changed this chain on a CX combine before knows the fun that lays ahead for me, stupid place and a 2 man job. Not going to take any chances this year with the weather extremes we have had, as soon as it can go through the combine, we are going to go, maybe seems a bit crazy this early in the year, but with what I have seen the last couple harvests and the weather this year, it could all be over in a heartbeat. Not to worry anyone, but I have a feeling that it's going to be an early winter!
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Post by meskie on Aug 30, 2020 10:05:18 GMT -6
You’ve brought back memories changing that stupid chain on a CX. Only did it twice then it was a new chain at the start of harvest for it. We were in some oats yesterday that were running 130. Ran out of moisture but they are dry and have decent weight to them. It was the nicest day we have had to combine in a couple years managed to get 250 acres off with one machine. Good thing it was only a 1.5 mile haul to the yard. Rain was supposed to be coming and wanted to finish up. But it’s sunny and windy here this morning.
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Post by Oatking on Aug 30, 2020 15:18:16 GMT -6
WOW 250 acres in one day in oats with one machine, that's a great day. Was that windrowed or straight. We struggled to get a quarter done a day with two machines running . We had fog in mornings or heavy dews every day during the oat harvest and as soon as the sun went down the straw was too tough. Oats average 165 bushel an acre. We also ran out of moisture as my swamp quarters were yielding around 200. My seed was dry but the straw was green even after 4 days laying in the swath. I also suspect the beans will be hurt from the dryness. I am also thinking bean acres in Manitoba will take a decline once again since canola is yielding 50 - 60 bushels an acre on my farm and area. I have to say , this has been my best crop in over twenty years. Its pretty hard to have every crop go bumper but this is pretty close.
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