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Post by Oatking on Oct 16, 2023 14:35:29 GMT -6
  been done soybeans for over a month now , finally hauling them in to Paterson grain in Morris! Not sure they will fill it this year . |
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Post by generalchaos on Oct 16, 2023 19:03:40 GMT -6
Hey Oatking. Did you hear about the fire in St. Jean Saturday night? My son’s buddy is on the Altona fire department and said there were 4 fire departments at the fire. Sounds like some kind of elevator or grain receiving plant.
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Post by Oatking on Oct 16, 2023 20:25:49 GMT -6
Hey Oatking. Did you hear about the fire in St. Jean Saturday night? My son’s buddy is on the Altona fire department and said there were 4 fire departments at the fire. Sounds like some kind of elevator or grain receiving plant. Yes , it sure is too bad ! Actually I knew the owner quite well . I bought land from Daniel in 1998. He quit farming and had a new vision … hence his business name nuvision. The grain loss is the worst part. I hope he rebuilds steel bins. Maybe by the old versatile dealer by st Jean . The grain must have heated up ! Barely is terrible for heating up! I don’t know why! Anyways, hope the son who took over rebuilds. I could see the fire clearly from the farm! |
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Post by kevlar on Oct 18, 2023 14:30:57 GMT -6
Captains Log:
Day 227 of harvest 2023,
End in sight. Canola surprisingly dry for having been rained out yesterday. 50 acres still standing. Duct tape and prayers still holding things together. All crew members fed up and exhausted, mutiny almost inevitable. 40 acres swathed, no one really cares. Many hours of work remains, but energy supplies critically low. Members questioning career choice.
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Post by Oatking on Oct 18, 2023 14:37:42 GMT -6
Captains Log: Day 227 of harvest 2023, End in sight. Canola surprisingly dry for having been rained out yesterday. 50 acres still standing. Duct tape and prayers still holding things together. All crew members fed up and exhausted, mutiny almost inevitable. 40 acres swathed, no one really cares. Many hours of work remains, but energy supplies critically low. Members questioning career choice. Hey Kevlar , your harvest report posts must be delayed a month just like Mike mitchils!! Lol God I almost want to load up my John Deeres and see what is like to combine real canola! Lol Glad you got it in the bag soon ! Lawn chair lazy over here! |
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Post by kevlar on Oct 18, 2023 14:52:31 GMT -6
Captains Log: Day 227 of harvest 2023, End in sight. Canola surprisingly dry for having been rained out yesterday. 50 acres still standing. Duct tape and prayers still holding things together. All crew members fed up and exhausted, mutiny almost inevitable. 40 acres swathed, no one really cares. Many hours of work remains, but energy supplies critically low. Members questioning career choice. Hey Kevlar , your harvest report posts must be delayed a month just like Mike mitchils!! Lol God I almost want to load up my John Deeres and see what is like to combine real canola! Lol Glad you got it in the bag soon ! Lawn chair lazy over here! You could probably get some custom work around here, still lots of crops out. Gets worse to the north east of me, I think they were delayed this spring being wet and that might have set them back enough to miss the only good weather we had early harvest. Lots of years we take off a good chunk of our crops in October so this is nothing new really, it’s just dragged on for so long, only ever get a couple days at a time in. Drying grain pretty much doubles the workload, not sure when my last actual day off was, end of July or early august? Looking forward to it snowing then you know you’re done. Only got about 300 acres sprayed so far, still a couple piles to clean up and dry, fortunately one is small 👍. Bin guys are supposed to show up tomorrow, I figured we’d have been done long before they got here, might have an auger set up in it while they are tightening up the bottom bolts! lol still have to finish leveling them and tamping them, did some today, realized I’m not as young as I once was. |
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Post by northernfarmer on Oct 18, 2023 19:04:10 GMT -6
Speaking of combining as I believe I mentioned some hail damaged crops in a certain area a few miles away from our farm, I talked to the neighbour who farms some land out that way ( they had some hail damage but not nearly as bad ) and he was working some land on Saturday and watching two JD 1100 combines just crawl slowly through standing canola with their 50 foot headers. He said it took them forever to make a round and they were not using their grain cart which they normally use ( 2200 bushel or so cart on tracks ) perhaps meant the yield was not that spectacular either. He said they were making dust though but I have to think the straw down lower was tough and why such slow going, not making good time with their million dollar combines on that crop it would seem.
They were yacking a certain amount of snow fall of all things to happen in a few days but have backed off of that a lot, however they show a low of -13 projected for Monday night and highs of -4, sometimes we will get a hit of cold later fall and then it pop back up a bit at the end of the month or just into Nov, winter has never failed to come yet though. However today into the afternoon the wind picked up and shot up to 17 so that nice weather should reach Manitoba soon ... hopefully !
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Post by kevlar on Oct 19, 2023 19:35:13 GMT -6
DONE!!!!!!!🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳
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Post by northernfarmer on Oct 19, 2023 20:13:30 GMT -6
I can well imagine the relief as one wonders if crop will stay out once one gets well along into Oct, not sure what will play out around here but they are back to forecasting snow by Saturday night and into Sunday with highs below freezing, then turning colder yet down to a low of -14. That doesn't give one much confidence for harvesting weather around here. I expect your goal now is to get piles cleaned up and put through the dryer and as you mentioned bins that are due to come.
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Post by victory on Oct 19, 2023 20:51:21 GMT -6
Just before the mutiny happened I bet. Just think how happy they will all be that they stuck it out to the end when the captain takes them all out for a fancy meal and a good celebratory drink! |
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Post by iamwill on Oct 19, 2023 23:06:34 GMT -6
Got a call from the irrigation district today telling me that I am not in compliance with the terms of the lease agreement we have with them on some grass we run cows on and they have to be out. The cows were only supposed to be in there for a week but it turned in to 13 days because they ripped out some fences when doing pipeline repairs last winter and never bothered to repair them on the field the cows were supposed to go. Not the first time it's happened with these clowns, same thing 2 years ago and years before that they took out a full mile of fence and never bothered to replaced it even though they said that they would. So spent all day today fencing instead of combining. Oh well only 8 days of snow in the two week forecast and 100k bu of corn left standing in the field. Fkn aholes!!!! Somebody's getting close to having a hunting accident.
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Post by kevlar on Oct 20, 2023 6:38:52 GMT -6
I can well imagine the relief as one wonders if crop will stay out once one gets well along into Oct, not sure what will play out around here but they are back to forecasting snow by Saturday night and into Sunday with highs below freezing, then turning colder yet down to a low of -14. That doesn't give one much confidence for harvesting weather around here. I expect your goal now is to get piles cleaned up and put through the dryer and as you mentioned bins that are due to come. Yes it’s a big relief. Still lots to do but it can be done in less than perfect weather, just makes it a little less fun. Sounds the same for here, maybe a couple decent days then cooling right off. I feel bad for those with crop still out, looking back now it seems like a good idea taking barley off at 17 August. Not sure if we’ll get any more sprayed, supposed to be windy today. |
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Post by Oatking on Oct 20, 2023 9:51:08 GMT -6
I can well imagine the relief as one wonders if crop will stay out once one gets well along into Oct, not sure what will play out around here but they are back to forecasting snow by Saturday night and into Sunday with highs below freezing, then turning colder yet down to a low of -14. That doesn't give one much confidence for harvesting weather around here. I expect your goal now is to get piles cleaned up and put through the dryer and as you mentioned bins that are due to come. Yes it’s a big relief. Still lots to do but it can be done in less than perfect weather, just makes it a little less fun. Sounds the same for here, maybe a couple decent days then cooling right off. I feel bad for those with crop still out, looking back now it seems like a good idea taking barley off at 17 August. Not sure if we’ll get any more sprayed, supposed to be windy today. I was wondering if it was getting late to spray! I saw one guy spraying last week . Mostly some guy are floating on 46-0-0 now. Still some corn out but mostly harvest is wrapped up! I decided against floating on dry fertilizer. Seeding one pass on zero till beat my neighbours canola by a good 15 bu per acre. I see why they do it to save time and a cheaper fertilizer price but it’s no doubt more efficient and profitable in the spring I believe! My area floods often and even if we don’t flood the ice melt seems to linger for a long time in the spring. I wonder how much you really lose? Agronomist say 15 % , but it’s hard to know for sure. |
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Post by Oatking on Oct 20, 2023 9:56:42 GMT -6
How many of you get soil tests in the fall and follow their recommendations !
Also how many of you use variable rate technology during seeding!
Man I was listening to the radio the other day listening to a farmer north of Winnipeg say how important it was to adopt that technology!
My land is so uniform corner to corner I have never even considered changing my practices on the same field . I can see if you have hills or valleys.
My drill has the capability to enter different rates but have never touch those buttons!
How wide spread is variable rate fertilizing now! I must be behind the times !
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Post by meskie on Oct 20, 2023 10:58:01 GMT -6
We follow the soil tests. Variable rate the fertilizer and the seed. On all 1/2 the farm. On our land it keeps the crop more even. Lots of small hills and depressions and some fields have 3 different soil type across the 1/4.
If you land is even you wouldn’t see any benefit from it in my opinion.
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