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Post by garyfunk on Sept 12, 2023 12:30:56 GMT -6
Good job Oatking!!
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Post by kevlar on Sept 12, 2023 12:51:12 GMT -6
Now i see why you always say see if the crop makes it earlier in august! He in the red river valley its usually a given canola makes it! its been a while since frost hurt our beans and more of a chance with the corn. weather looks great next week with temps hitting maybe 30! harvest is all wrapped up on my farm. wished I had more to do, bean harvest went quickly ! No combine or anything really broke down which is always makes a stress free harvest. Only slight problem was the unload auger on my 05 9760 wouldnt fold out once or twice. Found out the cylinder had an internal leak. Also they say to grease the auger zerks when the auger is extended out to push grease across the tracking. Mine did have some debris on the track so that made it harder for the cylinder to push out. calder you might want to grease your auger zerks with it in the dump position and just check around the pivot point for straw and packed chaff from rain or just washing the combine. Most guys are pretty well finished here. odd corn field and bean field left. field work is starting but some fields look pretty chunky after the deep tiller! I cant wait till seeding time now. I AM JUST A GRAIN GUY SO its lawn chair lazy time now!!! So you’ll be looking for some work? I know a guy who has some piles of grain to clean up and run through the dryer. He doesn’t pay very well but he’s easy to get along with. |
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Post by garyfunk on Sept 12, 2023 14:22:36 GMT -6
Should finish the barley today except for the 60 acre chunk that was sown into pasture sod. Tomorrow we'll hopefully see how the canola is going to run.
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Post by kevlar on Sept 12, 2023 17:10:48 GMT -6
Got started in the wheat today, hasn’t moved off 17.5% moisture all day, I thought it would come down a little at least, nice clear day finally but not very warm.
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Post by victory on Sept 12, 2023 19:50:13 GMT -6
We had a beautiful weekend of drying weather. Finally low humidity. Finished up the barley yesterday and started the wheat yesterday evening. A little more rain this morning. The wheat was grading a #2. Hope the grade doesn't drop from the rain. The wheat is also heavy again this year. A little surprising considering how much rain we had.
Hopefully get going again tomorrow. The wheat was down to 13% moisture yesterday. Couldn't believe how much it changed in a couple days.
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Post by OptimallyDismal on Sept 12, 2023 22:20:39 GMT -6
Got started in the wheat today, hasn’t moved off 17.5% moisture all day, I thought it would come down a little at least, nice clear day finally but not very warm. Same here, did a sample and will wait for tomorrow, no dryer or air bins, no choice |
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Post by kenmb on Sept 13, 2023 8:50:44 GMT -6
Kevlar, from when I did side by side passes with mustard at 8 and 14 lbs/ac, the 14 lb resulted in smaller plants that bloomed for about 10 days less and all plants quit blooming around the same time. The 8 lb had more areas that kept blooming as weather/moisture permitted. Seeded around 8 lbs for a number of years and now moved up a bit for that reason that fewer, bushier plants are more of a pain to get through headers. Don't want to seed to heavy because I also think if the stand is too dense, then the plants use up the resources available that much quicker (competition) and shut down sooner so may miss out on improving conditions later. For areas that have good rain fall, heat and soil then that scenario doesn't happen.
Definitely a year for making observations. Better mustard crop on the adjacent quarter, a few volunteer rape seed but pretty small number vs other weeds. Never operated the 2388 for so many hours at 2.2 to 2.6mph. 3 more days of mustard than probably 4 for flax.
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Post by kevlar on Sept 13, 2023 10:46:22 GMT -6
I sowed this just over 4 lbs per acre but should have cut back to 3, it was smaller seed and got about as close to 100% germination as you can get I would guess, was thicker than the hair on a dog’s back. I think it was just competing so much that it kept stretching out. That or it was trying to get above each other to be the one to catch the few drops of rain that did fall. One good thing, there isn’t a single weed coming, no way anything could grow under that canopy.
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Post by kevlar on Sept 13, 2023 10:48:13 GMT -6
 unlike this tough little bugger |
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Post by Oatking on Sept 13, 2023 10:49:08 GMT -6
Kevlar, from when I did side by side passes with mustard at 8 and 14 lbs/ac, the 14 lb resulted in smaller plants that bloomed for about 10 days less and all plants quit blooming around the same time. The 8 lb had more areas that kept blooming as weather/moisture permitted. Seeded around 8 lbs for a number of years and now moved up a bit for that reason that fewer, bushier plants are more of a pain to get through headers. Don't want to seed to heavy because I also think if the stand is too dense, then the plants use up the resources available that much quicker (competition) and shut down sooner so may miss out on improving conditions later. For areas that have good rain fall, heat and soil then that scenario doesn't happen. Definitely a year for making observations. Better mustard crop on the adjacent quarter, a few volunteer rape seed but pretty small number vs other weeds. Never operated the 2388 for so many hours at 2.2 to 2.6mph. 3 more days of mustard than probably 4 for flax. Kenmb How does the cost to produce differ from canola to mustard? Curious about cost of production ? What is a good crop of mustard yield . I know that depends on market price and net return . Net return id more precise measurement of income earned .br]I didn’t know your area was in the mustard zone ? Thought that was the southwestern sk zone . |
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Post by Beerwiser on Sept 13, 2023 11:26:03 GMT -6
unlike this tough little bugger Haha, I got one of those growing in the old hog barn. Next to no sunlight in there, but he is 4 feet long. Oddly no other thistle around for 300 feet or more, he must be lonely in there🤣. |
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Post by Oatking on Sept 13, 2023 12:00:39 GMT -6
unlike this tough little bugger Kevlar instead of a huge hopper , sounds like you need to build a huge flat bottom if you have piles of grain . I remember back in 03 I had 7 piles of oats ! One for each quarter . I had really poor bin space at the time and also no grain cart! I actually used both my tr 96 and tr98 yellow bananas to dump in a 22ish thousand bushel pile. That worked well. I tarpped the piles with tires and Walmart giant blue tarps . Ah…. Those were the days !!! I hauled out quite a few bushels with an 85 brig and drag auger or super sweep!!! NEVER AGAIN would I pile grain . Grain rings are even worse to clean up . I think that is why I have only one good lung now!!!! Kevlar with your good crops build a 40 000 bushel bin or two 25000 s . I should have splurged in that size years ago! My helper said to me ! You should have built a cement terminal back in the late 90s instead of all the steel hoppers! Boy , those hired helpers always know what’s best eh!!! Can’t help you shovelling, but I can stand there and drink a beer with you!!!! |
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Post by kevlar on Sept 13, 2023 12:30:55 GMT -6
I don’t know how many hundreds of thousands of bushes I’ve cleaned up off the ground in my life, it’s not fun, a lot better now than when I was a kid and we just used a crappy old auger and drag auger that shook the piss out of your arms, go to bed at night and my eyes would be burning with dust.
I think we’re somewhat sticking with the original plan, but going with 10,000 hoppers instead of flat. Move our 4000 hoppers around to work with the dryer. Big bins would be nice and definitely cheaper, but a bit smaller bin works good for our area. Our harvest conditions are quite a bit different than down your way, it would be very difficult most years to fill a 40,000 bushel bin with all one grade of grain. I was thinking the other day after you asked what size of bins were common here, and even the bigger operations with 3-4 combines only have 20-30000 bushel bins, so thinking they have the same idea as me. Once we get this row of bins complete we’ll start with bigger bins. Don’t want to tie up all the money at once, have several other upgrades planned and put some money into our equipment and grain truck.
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Post by Oatking on Sept 13, 2023 13:06:36 GMT -6
That makes perfect sense .
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Post by Oatking on Sept 13, 2023 13:09:43 GMT -6
My largest hoppers are 25 ft . 8400 bushels . Love them for oats . About 10800 bushels of oats fit in them.
One important thing is get a good foundation made. One of my bins done in 2012 had poor quality cement . It cracked and started heaving in the middle
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