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Post by slipclutch on Aug 18, 2024 9:50:45 GMT -6
After 18” of rain thus so far this year. The corn looks the best out of all crops. It’s about 8’ tall but some stalks don’t have a cob and others have two. The little sucker cob that’s taking away from the big one will bring down the yield a bit. I would say after this rain there is a potential 180 crop dry. But if it freezes 😬 it’s fu*ked Just thinking. I haven’t crunched the numbers yet. I think I would make more on this crop if it freezes and collect the insurance and sell what’s in the bin for big $$$.
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Post by Oatking on Aug 18, 2024 10:13:46 GMT -6
I think I just got relegated to watching the bombers today . 11 o’clock and my oat swaths are wet . Drying day I guess
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Post by SWMan on Aug 18, 2024 21:44:29 GMT -6
Garden corn is not really a barometer for grain corn, much shorter season.
Grain corn is probably gonna be light test weight and average yield if I had to guess, but could be amazing if we get heat and it makes it...or could be a disaster if we get early frost. No way to know for another month at least.
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Post by bob123 on Aug 19, 2024 10:56:00 GMT -6
[quote source="/post/27198/thread" timestamp="1723991197" author=" One thing about straight combing oats is you need a well operated grain cart driver to unload you in a timely fashion . With 200 plus oats on a thirty foot swath one pass to the end fills the combine tank ! What length passes do you do? We have gone to 1/4 mile now and bin extensions on everything. The good thing about straight cutting is you can just go till your bin gets half full and turn around, don't need to make the guess while swathing haha
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Post by Oatking on Aug 19, 2024 11:19:54 GMT -6
[quote source="/post/27198/thread" timestamp="1723991197" author=" One thing about straight combing oats is you need a well operated grain cart driver to unload you in a timely fashion . With 200 plus oats on a thirty foot swath one pass to the end fills the combine tank ! What length passes do you do? We have gone to 1/4 mile now and bin extensions on everything. The good thing about straight cutting is you can just go till your bin gets half full and turn around, don't need to make the guess while swathing haha Half mile , but yes I see guys going angle wise . I just worry about field traffic or making angle ruts in the field .
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Post by bigal on Aug 19, 2024 17:35:30 GMT -6
We started on the barley today. Slow going with all the lodged spots, but it's working. The boss is swathing oats. Sounds like it's slow going there too with all the lodging.
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Post by Oatking on Aug 20, 2024 6:00:53 GMT -6
We started on the barley today. Slow going with all the lodged spots, but it's working. The boss is swathing oats. Sounds like it's slow going there too with all the lodging. Started oats yesterday at 3 . Still wet straw but oats were dry . Very slow going . Hopefully the swaths dry more because we did use the slipclutch and I hate that . Strange how our first pass with the 680 combine resulted in an overheating code . Looked in the back 😠, no fan belt ! I think they forget to put one on during inspection . I need to inspect the inspection !!!
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Post by victory on Aug 20, 2024 8:15:42 GMT -6
I need to inspect the inspection !!! Lol!
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Post by generalchaos on Aug 20, 2024 8:58:25 GMT -6
Stockton said “Did you get cutting? I’ve said this to my family 4 days in a row now. Then every morning it’s soaking wet out again and not looking like much of a drying day so I say it again. “
I started on Saturday. Some places mud sticking to tire, but I had to stop at 8:00 pm. I finished yesterday at 2:00 pm. Worked better after the weekend.
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Post by bigal on Aug 20, 2024 9:32:48 GMT -6
We started on the barley today. Slow going with all the lodged spots, but it's working. The boss is swathing oats. Sounds like it's slow going there too with all the lodging. Started oats yesterday at 3 . Still wet straw but oats were dry . Very slow going . Hopefully the swaths dry more because we did use the slipclutch and I hate that . Strange how our first pass with the 680 combine resulted in an overheating code . Looked in the back 😠, no fan belt ! I think they forget to put one on during inspection . I need to inspect the inspection !!! One of our neighbors was picking up oat swaths yesterday, looked like pretty slow going for them too. Last fall we had a similar overheating issue. The belt came off,or more likely, was left off of the rotary screen. That was on me though. Seems like every year, there is at least one issue of some sort that stems from work done on the machine during the winter. But we usually can't blame anyone but ourselves for that, as we do pretty much all the work.
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Post by meskie on Aug 20, 2024 10:18:26 GMT -6
If it would ever quit raining every couple of hours we might try some barley one of these days. My cousin did some before the weekend that was testing 18. It was running well over 90 also in the couple truck loads they did. I’m hearing sone really good yields on some peas and barley from some other farmers also.
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Post by Oatking on Aug 20, 2024 12:29:14 GMT -6
If it would ever quit raining every couple of hours we might try some barley one of these days. My cousin did some before the weekend that was testing 18. It was running well over 90 also in the couple truck loads they did. I’m hearing sone really good yields on some peas and barley from some other farmers also. We will have that problem too , even at 1:30 in the afternoon humidity was 60 ! Frustrating ! Hope you can get a good stretch !
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Post by iamwill on Aug 21, 2024 7:41:43 GMT -6
Combined the dryland wheat yesterday. It yielded over 3 times as much as last year! Not sure that 17 bpa is something to get excited about but we are moving in the right direction.
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Post by meskie on Aug 21, 2024 15:45:35 GMT -6
14.5-14.8 moisture on the first load so I guess it’s go time. Don’t mind the straw spread. Had a sensor not working for the deflectors.
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Post by generalchaos on Aug 22, 2024 7:10:57 GMT -6
Finished the oats last night. Best yield in oats I’ve ever had. 25 ft swath my 9750 with extension and tarp could make one pass. Had son on combine, wife on cart while I did the trucking with 18’ tandem. I couldn’t keep up. Mind you had to drive 4:5 miles and have a 10” Farm king auger.
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