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Post by meskie on Aug 22, 2024 9:29:50 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. There are worse problems to have…..
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Post by meskie on Aug 22, 2024 9:31:52 GMT -6
Finished the first 1/4 of barley last night. Ran 95+. My son was glad we upgraded grain carts for this year. Moisture was 14.2 on the whole sample.
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Post by Oatking on Aug 22, 2024 10:49:41 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. Excellent yield . Yep if your oats were able to survive the moisture this year 200 was possible . If you keep growing 200 you will need a 13 inch . Man , with my wider end gates and a 16 inch auger , I was able to keep the combined going ! When I dumped my Loadline tandem with the regular gate. It was like molasses in flow . 3 minutes conservative to unload 1350 bushels with 16 . Didn’t want to push it to the max !
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bigal
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Post by bigal on Aug 22, 2024 14:33:22 GMT -6
We didn't manage to finish oats yesterday, but since it was a perfect night for harvesting, we managed to go till 4:30 at night. That was when it finally got too tough to go. For most of the night, we could go almost as good as the daytime. We got the equipment parked, and not long after, we started to get the rain that was forecasted. Got about a 1/4 inch, but might get more later today.
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Post by Oatking on Aug 22, 2024 15:40:10 GMT -6
We didn't manage to finish oats yesterday, but since it was a perfect night for harvesting, we managed to go till 4:30 at night. That was when it finally got too tough to go. For most of the night, we could go almost as good as the daytime. We got the equipment parked, and not long after, we started to get the rain that was forecasted. Got about a 1/4 inch, but might get more later today. Wow , great progress , we finished at 10:30 and was getting tough . Didn’t want to start a new quarter at 11pm . Local elevator has cut off high moisture oats . Apparently guys with 15 and over have to go home now .
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Post by Oatking on Aug 22, 2024 20:30:08 GMT -6
Going to be hard to get dry oats . Yesterday oats were 13.5 for a little while and then at 9 they shot up to 14.5 ☹️. Almost half an inch this morning . I hate this hot humid weather !
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jaymo
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Post by jaymo on Aug 22, 2024 20:34:56 GMT -6
Just got started in oats yesterday. Humidity was high and the straw is pretty green but working pretty good. Yield is looking excellent, standing up nice, bushel weight a bit on the lighter side but still around 235 grams at 15% moisture. Rained out last night, about .5", hopefully get going Friday again.
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Post by kenmb on Aug 23, 2024 8:48:07 GMT -6
8:30 am and fog with 200 yards visibility, doubt I will be doing much today. Wait for the next rain to come that is forecast overnight. 0.7" on Wednesday so was thinking today I could maybe try some peas but need sun and low humidity to give that a chance of happening and fog isn't the answer. When it is sunny it has been 50 to 70% humidity.
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Post by Oatking on Aug 23, 2024 9:14:57 GMT -6
8:30 am and fog with 200 yards visibility, doubt I will be doing much today. Wait for the next rain to come that is forecast overnight. 0.7" on Wednesday so was thinking today I could maybe try some peas but need sun and low humidity to give that a chance of happening and fog isn't the answer. When it is sunny it has been 50 to 70% humidity. Exact same fog here , every thing drenched . Not good when environment Canada has a fog advisory in the morning . No wind either . Patients is wearing
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bigal
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Post by bigal on Aug 23, 2024 16:52:32 GMT -6
8:30 am and fog with 200 yards visibility, doubt I will be doing much today. Wait for the next rain to come that is forecast overnight. 0.7" on Wednesday so was thinking today I could maybe try some peas but need sun and low humidity to give that a chance of happening and fog isn't the answer. When it is sunny it has been 50 to 70% humidity. Exact same fog here , every thing drenched . Not good when environment Canada has a fog advisory in the morning . No wind either . Patients is wearing Took a while to dry from the heavy dew, but we started rolling about an hour ago. We're combining right behind the swather.
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Post by kenmb on Aug 24, 2024 6:20:28 GMT -6
Harvest progress is slow, as in about 8 ac/hr. Lots of up and down ladder clearing knife. Pushing dirt and mud because it keeps raining, and when it is sunny it's 60 to 80% humidity. Quit at sundown and my weather unit showed 84% humidity, and then it rained 0.10" over night.
Chrome peas running around 30 BPA. Fungicide probably wouldn't have added bushels via more crop production but this year the peas would have stood up and allowed for good combining and lower losses.
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Post by Oatking on Aug 24, 2024 7:34:44 GMT -6
Harvest has barely started and it feels like it will drag on ! Terribly rain one day than sun , repeat for this week . My last oats might not be so pretty ! The soybeans are loving it ! Maybe make up the money lost in oat quality with better beans ! My oat contracts are 3 or better . Lots of guys have oats in swath so not the only one . Standing oats must be shelling out by now . Drove by some standing fields and you can see it’s all white on top . Would be interested what percent the shelling loss is compared to in a swath . 60 km wind today
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Post by SWMan on Aug 24, 2024 21:39:36 GMT -6
Finally got my act together and have my equipment ready, figured I would try the barley. Test was 15% so bring other equipment out, soon realized the field was pretty variable. Did a semi load and it was 22%....oops. Got the bugs out, sure hope next week things dry out. One thing I was surprised at was how much swathing is still going on in Eastern MB, and if we can avoid the heavy rains it might still be the best way to dry this crop down. The barley straw was almost wringing wet today.
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MBRfarms
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Post by MBRfarms on Aug 24, 2024 22:09:14 GMT -6
About 2/3 done wheat, yields are decent so far. Seen some fuz but nothing terrible yet. Guys who's wheat lodged flat over a month ago might have way more problems with that one. Got the drainage equipment hooked up and calibrated yesterday. After a wet spring it's easy to see where work is needed and it's an easy way to kill these damp foggy mornings. Looking like we'll have a nice break between wheat and canola to tackle the larger drainage jobs I've got planned. Hoping to also start on manure spreading and tillage next week if all goes well.
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Post by Oatking on Aug 24, 2024 23:17:52 GMT -6
Finally got my act together and have my equipment ready, figured I would try the barley. Test was 15% so bring other equipment out, soon realized the field was pretty variable. Did a semi load and it was 22%....oops. Got the bugs out, sure hope next week things dry out. One thing I was surprised at was how much swathing is still going on in Eastern MB, and if we can avoid the heavy rains it might still be the best way to dry this crop down. The barley straw was almost wringing wet today. Oats swaths are like wet hay but seed is 12.5-13.5 today . Some of my neighbours are done cereals and going in straight cut canola . Oats still look pretty good quality .
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