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11/20/2009
Will You Get Any Fall Tillage Done? How’s the Weather in Your Parts? Are You Running Out of On-Farm Storage? Will Your Crop Mix be the Same Next Year?
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- 11/20 - Henry County, Ill.: Two corn plots out, both averaged 220. One bean plot out, it average 53. Our field averages on beans = 56 to 65.
- 11/20 - Bristolville, Ohio: We're running the New Holland 8970 with DMI Colter-Champ Disc Chisel Plow in a corn field that was just harvested.
- 11/19 - Southwest Minnesota: Finished up corn. After dry down figure about 185 bpa average with average test weight 52#, had ranges of 50 to 54#. Never took out anything dryer than 19% or wetter than 23%. Some mold evident, the cob centers were soft and resembled the center of a salted nut roll candy bar.
- 11/19 - Southwest Ohio: I think about you guys who cannot finish harvest. We are so blessed to get finished last night, bins all full and buyers took the excess grain. I think we will average 58 bu beans and 210 plus corn. What a year!
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-- Southwest Ohio
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- 11/19 - Dane/Columbia counties, Wis.: Looks like the high moisture levels in corn are starting to break. Sampled some today that was 18.6 to 20. 3% moisture. Having light rain today and tomorrow. Done with the Soybeans, half done with the corn. Lot of winter wheat got planted very late. Hope above freezing temperatures last another ten days at least. Does anybody know what is going to happen to all the high moisture silage that was put up with mold in it? I've been told that the mold will continue to grow unless dried down to 15%.
- 11/19 - Slaughters, Ky.: Harvest is coming to a close for this young lady in Slaughters, Ky. 60 more acres of corn, hope to finish this week weather permitting.
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-- Slaughters, Ky.
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11/19 - Greenville, Ill.: Farmer C.W. Gaffner is finishing up one of the last soybean fields.
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- 11/18 - Holdingford, Minn.: Never had as good of yields as I have this year. Soybeans pushed 60 bushel/ac. and Corn is all of 200 bushel/acre dry with test weight of 57+ lbs. I don't have enough storage so some is going to have to stand in the field and I will just feed it up to the feedlot cattle as long as the heavy snow allows me to. Moisture in the corn has come down to approximately 19-20%. I have a lot to be thankful for this year. Happy Thanksgiving everyone and take care!!.
- 11/18 - Beresford, S.D.: Farmer Gordon Anderson inspects one of his field’s corn ears for disease.
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- 11/18 - Polo, Ill.: Farmer Dustin Spears says they hope to be wrapped up in 10 days with harvesting.
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- 11/18 - Rich, Utah: Got the crops all in, fall plowing done, weaned the calves. Tomorrow a guy is coming to buy my heifers to use for replacements in his heard. I'll feed the steers a couple more weeks before selling. I have a few acres of CRP which ended Sept. 30. The payment is due Oct. 1. Over a month and a half later still not paid while interest is occurring on my loan, which is due in a couple weeks.
- 11/18 - Texas: Mother Nature served up mild, warmer weather with a little rain on the side to some Texas customers, a recipe that promoted the harvesting of cotton and other crops, according to Texas AgriLife Extension Service personnel.
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County gins in the Rolling Plains were getting a steady supply of cotton modules the second week of November, according to Texas AgriLife Extension Service personnel.
(Texas AgriLife Extension Service photo by
Dr. Todd Baughman)
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- 11/18 - Hamilton/Eaton area, Ohio: My husband and son farm over 3500 acres, most of which are rented. Our corn harvest is reading over 300 bu/acre in some areas per my husband of 53 years old. His beans are running as high as 120/acre. He has never in his life seen a harvest like this. After 2 drought years we are left with three years of input costs so although our yields are great, we will use every dollar to pay down the 3 years of costs plus interest. It costs us $600 a day in fuel just to dry the corn. That is for 5000 bushels and running the dryer 24 hours. Biggest problem is storage and dumping. Many grain companies are full or have no where to store. It’s a good problem to have but nonetheless, a problem.
- 11/17 - Lone Elm, Mo.: Fall harvest at Wieland Farms.
- 11/17 - Indiana (12mi. south of I-70 and 5 miles east Illinois state line): Finished 11/14, corn yielded 185/210 bu/ac, 15-20% moisture. Fortunately because being slowed down by drying we only got in 1/3 of corn acreage this year due to flooding and wet weather. Beans planted before 6/20 yielded upper 40's to low 50's, after that date to 7/8 upper 20's to upper 30's (due no rain from middle of August to third week of September and beans being infested with aphids. Traded for 40' Macdon at the last minute (Oct 1) which greatly speeded up bean harvest, saving bean losses in short beans over the 635F. Ground is dry, most farmers in this area closed to finished and fall tillage is being done.
- 11/17 - Macomb, Ill.: Beans are harvested around the Macomb area, but lots of corn still in the fields. Maybe 1/3 is out, and moisture running from 19 to 21/22 %. Lots of dock to take. LP gas supplier ran out yesterday, but got truck in overnight and delivered this morning for dryer. Rained all day yesterday and today with 6/10 on Sun. Haven't looked this evening (Mon). What a year!.
- 11/16 - Southern Iowa: We finally finished up all the beans with a 50+ average and the best beans we have ever had. We broke open our corn fields to be shocked at how muddy it was...but yet yields were testing the best we have ever had with15-17% moisture. And now they are calling for 2+ inches of rain/snow/sleet/geez this sucks...seriously!? Guess we will have find out if this Dekalb corn can stand in the field until a freeze...*sigh*.
- 11/16 - Brown County, S.D.: Beans finally dry enough to harvest, but ground is not. A neighbor stuck his combine, couldn't pull it out, brought in a track hoe, and check out the results. Combines are buried all over NE South Dakota, and got another half inch today. Yields are decent-40 to 60, but getting them out is obviously a big problem.
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- 11/16 - North Central Illinois: Putting soybeans into a bin using a 4430 and a 10x72' auger. (Video courtesy of Delhotal Farms).
- 11/16 - Western Walsh County, northeast North Dakota: Harvest is finally over!! We finished the last of the edible beans and soybeans on last week. Both types of beans had some frost damage, making them tough to market. I will have to run them over a gravity table in an effort to remove the frosted beans. This year has not been “normal”...every season and every operation has had its difficult twist. But I'm sure every occupation has its challenges. Only a few acres of corn (not much was seeded around here) and some sunflowers remain. This beautiful November weather has also allowed us to get 65% of the farm fertilized for next spring. We are still doing some tillage, ditching, and rock picking. Just 3 weeks ago we were certain that we would never get everything harvested, nor any falls' work done......but we were blessed with a run of great weather. Thanksgiving will have a special meaning later this month.
- 11/16 - Cerro Gordo County, north central Iowa: Finished harvesting one field of corn on November 14, 80 acres of 103 day corn, planted May 18 - average moisture 32% test weight 48 lbs.
- 11/13 - Macon, Ill.: Pam Smith, Farm Journal Seeds & Production Editor: At the grain elevator in Macon, Ill., you can find long lines of trucks unloading high-moisture corn.
- 11/13 - Ellsworth County, Kan.: Fortunately, we were able to finish our fall harvesting of sorghum and soybeans on Wednesday, November 11th. We intended to plan 350 acres of HRW wheat behind soybeans. However. because it has been wet, and it is now late with reduced crop insurance (our final planting date was 10/31), we decided not to plant those acres to wheat. This will drop our intended acres by about 25% which is quite significant.
- 11/12 - Plains, Kan.: Corn harvest, wheat drilling, and more from Southwest Family Farms.
- 11/12 - Lafayette, Grant counties, Southwest Wisconsin: Harvest in full swing. I am amazed to listen to the noon radio shows and not hear them comment on what I feel is one of the most amazing corn stories in my 40 years of farming. In the past 3 weeks, corn has dried from 3-10 points. The most amazing dry down I have ever witnessed...especially this late in the year. We took out corn at 19% yesterday, and corn that was 32% is now 24% and drying. The other big story is how well the corn is standing overall. I guess we are blessed to have October and November weather flip flop. Yields are very good for the corn, and harvest will wrap up in the next 3 weeks. Very strange year, indeed.
- 11/12 - Bristolville, Ohio: Running 9.5 mph with the New Holland 8970 with Great Plains Turbo Till in Corn Stubble.
- 11/12 - South Central North Dakota: All done, combines in shed, trucks swept, augers down. Beans never did get dry 15%. Sunflower went from 18% last week, wouldn’t auger out of the grain cart, to 9% Tuesday couldn’t keep the combines from catching on fire from the fines. For those not done, “keep the faith, be careful” the end of harvest will come and optimism for next year will return.
- 11/11 - Monroe County, Ohio: Very little corn has been harvested here in southeast Ohio. Corn is testing around 20%.
- 11/11 - Texas: In some areas, rains let up and fields dried, allowing agricultural producers to get back into fields for planting and harvesting, according to Texas AgriLife Extension Service personnel. In many areas, producers were either waiting for fields to dry out to either plant small grains or winter pasture or try to take one last cutting of hay.
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Hay producers were either waiting for fields to dry out to either plant small grains or winter pasture or try to take one last cutting of hay.
(Texas AgriLife Extension photo by Robert Burns)
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- 11/11 - Cottonwood County, Southwest Minnesota: Finished corn on Saturday – what a long and stressful harvest. However after measuring and re-measuring for accuracy our overall corn yield was 224 (converted to dry bushels). Our 5 year running average is 178. So this is a big surprise. Moisture form start to finish was 24.8 and the test weight averaged 52.8. I pray November continues to bless us with some favorable harvest weather.
- 11/10 - Roseau County, Northwest Minnesota: It's a BEAR corn market!
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-- Roseau County, Northwest Minnesota
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- 11/10 - Southern Will County Illinois, 50 miles south of Chicago: We have now been harvesting eight days in a row, the longest harvest window so far this season. We have finished soybean harvest as have most producers in our area, I would say soybean harvest is at least 90% or better complete. Almost everyone has gone around wet holes, but over all, ground conditions have not been too bad, soft, but manageable. We started corn today, the first we have done, running about 24-27% moisture, at least not the 30-37% levels as reported a couple of weeks ago. Very little corn harvested in our area, probably less than 5 %, but I believe that will change a lot this week. Many producers with in bin dryers are talking about not using them, because of higher moisture levels. Harvest progress may very well be governed drying capacity of local elevators.We don't grow any winter wheat, but there are some produces who do, I have only seen two fields planted to wheat, far less than normal.
- 11/9 - Grenville County, Eastern Ontario, Canada: We were very lucky and were able to harvest our beans Oct 18-19. The weather was good and the moisture was from 12-12.5%. We got the bonus for IP quality which makes quite a difference on your selling price. My average was 45bu/acre which I am quite happy with considering we had a lot of rain in June & July. I had a Cruiser seeding rate plot on the best ground on the farm and the top yield was 125,000 seeds/acre in 15" rows @ 65bu/acre. My regular seeding rate of 175,000 seeds/acre was close behind @ 64bu/ac. I think I can cut my seeding rate to 150-160,000 seeds/ac and still get decent yields but I will continue to use Cruiser if I lower my seeding rate to get better emergence and some aphid control. I would be interested to hear from some others on what seeding rates they use and what results they have had with Cruiser or other seed treatments. Thanks.
- 11/6 - Fredericksburg, northeast Iowa: Crops are harvested, so it is time for fall tillage for Iowa farmer Kyle Wendland.
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- 11/6 - Oxford, Pa.: Farmer H. Grant Troop says he corn harvest in his area is much further along than the soybean harvest.
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- 11/6 - Odebolt, Iowa: Farmer Carol Raasch says the beans are yielding around 60 bu./acre, with some reaching 80 bu./acre.
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- 11/6 - Bristolville, Ohio: Harvesting corn with a Case International 1660 Combine with 6-row head. Corn was running from 25% to 30% moisture. Ford 6600 and Ford 7810 running Killbros 350 Gravity wagons.
- 11/6 - Obrien County, Iowa: We’ve been hauling some to the elevator from the field 21% moisture and 54.5 test wt. The comment at the elevator is that that is a good test wt as they have been getting a lot of 51# corn in at 25% moisture. Beans are 75% done with corn 20% done. Corn yields are running 160 - 230/acre.
- 11/6 - Southern Iowa: We are 40% done with corn and 35% done on beans. Bean yields in mid 50’s (good for us) and corn is better than normal so far on home farm (200+) but neighbors corn that we harvested is not so good, we think nitrogen got away. Corn stalks in good condition considering all the wet weather this year though. Sprayed most with fungicide which definitely paid off with yield and standability and only partially offset by high drying cost. Still was worth it though.
- 11/5 - San Luis Obispo, Calif.: The cactus had a good summer. The early rain, the largest October rain in California in 45 years washed the ground-water mineral deposits off the leaves. We've been harvesting since April... we'll be picking still until the first hard frost... usually in Jan.
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-- San Luis Obispo, Calif.
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- 11/5 - North Central Illinois: Cartman catches dad right after he turns around. (Video courtesy of Delhotal Farms).
- 11/5 - Texas: Many parts of Texas had excessive rain, taking them from drought to flood, but overall it's a good thing, according to Texas AgriLife Extension Service experts.
- 11/5 - Cooper County, Mo.: Sara Schafer, AgWeb Crops Online Editor: At least the Amish community in Cooper County, Mo. is making some harvest progress!
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-- Sara Schafer, AgWeb Crops Online Editor
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- 11/4 - Logan/Champaign counties, Ohio: Beans mostly harvested here. Yields extremely high, some white mold. Corn yields are best we've ever had. Our corn has run between 18 and 21% moisture. There is still some corn in the mid-to upper twenties. Lines at the elevator are long WHEN the dumps are open. Will be a long harvest.
- 11/4 - Franklin Country, North-Central Iowa: Corn at 28%, we have maybe 10% harvested in this area. The last load of beans I took in was 14.2%, we have around 33% harvested around here. Yields for beans going low-50's to low-60's. Corn yields- only God knows. I would say we will be down around 25 bu from 2004 record yields; probably 190-195 will catch it this year. Certainly no record yield in my part of Iowa as the USDA is saying. Quality will be a big issue this year; I see a lot of corn getting dumped, rather than stored. The old-timers are saying they have not seen a harvest like this for many years and I hope we never see another one like this one for 30 years.
- 11/4 - Ambia, Ind.: Darrell Smith, Farm Journal Conservation & Machinery Editor: Nov. 3 found Mike Pitts, son Joe and father Melvin of Ambia, Ind., 60% to 65% finished with corn and 100% finished with soybeans. The corn Mike was harvesting was around 23% moisture; the previous field had been 28% or 29%. “That’s about $100 per acre in drying costs we hadn’t budgeted for,” he says. “We move around, trying to find the driest fields we can.” There’s another reason the family is logging extra road time this fall: Area elevators are all closing at noon. “So we load trucks in the evening,” Mike explains. “In the morning, we put that corn into wet holding bins for our two farm dryers. Then we pick for the elevator until noon. In the afternoon, we go back to picking for the farm dryers. Often, that requires moving to a different field.” On the plus side, Mike adds, “yields are pretty good.”
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-- Darrell Smith, Farm Journal
Conservation & Machinery Editor
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- 11/4 - Monroe County, Western Wisconsin: What a challenging fall with all the steady rains, cold temps, high moisture crops, and mud! We finally finished harvesting the last of our soybeans today. The last field of soybeans was 13.6%, but most were 14% to 17.5%. We rarely have to dry soybeans in the bin, but we felt that we just could not wait any longer to let them dry in the field this year, so we took them off and are drying them now. Yields were down this year too, with most beans at about 40 bushel/acre. We would like to get started on corn now, but we can't find a field that tests less than 30%. We are reluctant to use so much LP to dry this wet corn crop, but stalk quality is an issue and field losses from lodging could begin to take a toll without timely harvest, especially if windy or snowy conditions prevail going forward. Test weights are poor on this crop too, with many from 49# to 53#. My guess is that this crop will be a challenge to manage while in storage too. We are praying for a better 2010. Have a safe harvest everyone.
- 11/4 - Buffalo County, South Central Nebraska: Finally back in the field combining corn. A few started yesterday but we decided to wait an extra day for things to dry out a little more. Corn is about the same moisture as when we quit a week ago being just below 20%. Yields are mostly 200-270 bu/A. which is about 30 bu. above normal. A bin buster for sure for Nebraska. Most all beans done in this area with yields mostly 70-85bu./A. We are about 3 weeks behind with harvest but the next 5 days look real good and many extra hours will put a big dent in harvest. My neighbor stopped by tonight and asked to bring our grain cart over tomorrow a.m. so he can unload his that is stuck in a pivot track!! Be patient and safe!
- 11/4 - Nueces County, Texas:We had a muddy-muddy harvest in 2007 and I don't ever want to go through that again. Here is just a few things I'd like to share that helped us: A long 2" nylon or poly rope is about the only thing that will pull a combine out of the mud (cheaper and longer than straps). Watch out for sharp corners and the stretch will multiply your pull to 150,000lbs+.... so be careful! Wrap a short chain (4-5') around the tire, trough the rim and weld together. It helps clean out the mud and reduce bent shields. A track tractor at 45 degrees will plow out ruts ok. It is possible to break off front tires, hub, spindle, ect. on a MFWD JD. Rice and Cane tires. Y’all be careful.
- 11/4 - Southwest Ohio: We were able to shell 12,000 bu. Sunday and 12,000 bu. yesterday but running out of no-till ground. We had to level some fields up and they look soggy. Mud on the road with no-till and don't want to bury the machines. Our market is demanding corn, bring it in and we will stay open for you. I think we can average over 50 bu. beans and 190 corn including some pretty rough farms. That is excellent. The best thing is 500 acres of wheat and barley sprouted but the neighbor's looks better than mine!
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- 11/4 - Mille Lacs County, Central Minnesota: Whew, what a battle. Finished the last of the 165 acres of soybeans last night. Had to dry every bean this year. Moisture was between 15 and 18%. Took the combine out every chance we could between the rains and some snow. Averaged 31 BPA. Now we can finally get started harvesting the corn.
- 11/3 - Southwest Iowa: We are finally able to get back in and work on the last of our beans starting late Sunday. We noticed some of them starting to pop out of the pods...figured we better get them done ASAP! They were testing 13.5 when we started up again and after some warm breezy days they are running 12.5 as of last night. RR1 and RR2 beans are running anywhere from 50 to 65 which is fantastic for our area. We hope to be done with beans in the next day or two....we planned on switching everything over to corn but all the sudden people are catching wind that we are close to done with beans now and farmers are tossing their checkbooks at us to help out with custom work on beans...guys are just so far behind and made weather related choices this spring to put in beans when they couldn't get corn in...so we might hold off on corn just to help out around the neighborhood! We checked some 113 day corn planted on April 15th about a month ago...hand shelled some ears into the tester...it was 17.5 a month ago...we figure we can hit corn anytime now and we should be looking pretty good. Thanks to the man upstairs for what looks to be a long stretch of warm and dry!
- 11/3 - St. Clair County, Southwestern Illinois: We picked up a mere 14 inches of rain in October. Not only was this the wettest October on record, it was the fourth wettest month ever recorded in our area. Saturday brought about panic for guys farming in the bottoms along the rivers. Many were doing anything possible to get their crops out before any of the rivers crested. It is slow going for everyone as you cannot bring any trucks, wagons, or grain carts into any fields for fear of burying them. The neighbor down the road buried his combine and it took two Caterpillars to get him out. I would put corn harvest at maybe 8 percent complete as some folks have never started due to high moisture and no on the farm drying. Beans are maybe 30 percent complete. I guess we will see how much the beans rotted in the next few days. We are hoping for beans to go on Wednesday or Thursday in this area. It was 70 degrees today and we could use another six weeks of this weather. Many nervous folks around here and who can blame them. Corn yields are running anywhere from 170-240 and beans are running 35-54. Be safe everyone and best of luck with your harvest.
- 11/3 - Central Nebraska: 12 in snow just melted. Fields a saturated and corm is wet with little hope of drying down because of freeze before maturity. The USDA needs to wake up and smell the roses.
- 11/2 - Cooper County, Mo.: Sara Schafer, AgWeb Crops Online Editor: Harvest is finally moving in central Missouri. My father was able to harvest this field of beans, with the help of float tires and 4-wheel drive.
- 11/2 - Winnebago County, North Iowa: 9.8 inches of rain last 35 days -Winnebago River is bank-full slowing drainage-beans 40% harvested -corn -5% at most. Corn running from 24-30%. Won't turn a wheel here to at least Wednesday/Thursday on sandy ground. Local elevator can dry only 25,000 bu daily of 25% corn. Almost all reporting points in Iowa are showing from 2x to 3x normal rainfall from history in past 30 days. Tow ropes are sold out. Fields will look like war zones before this December harvest is over!
- 11/2 - Northwest Minnesota: 31% beans don't flow as good as you would think!!
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- 11/2 - Mercer County, Northwest Illinois: Another 1.8"s MUD, MUD, MUD. We've only cut 235 acres of beans out of 1400, none below 13 %, most over 14 %. White mold was severe in over half of them! Yields around 40, RR2's. We picked 5 whole acres of corn out of 1600. It tested 28 %, planted first week in May, 111 day RM. Yields appear to be good, but really haven't done enough to tell. Local inland elevators and river terminals are already closing early, or not open at all some days. This is due to the overwhelming amount of wet corn, and there is very little corn even picked. We have a new high capacity continuous flow dryer scheduled to deliver this week. We will see if that really happens. Be safe!.
- 11/2 - Putnam County, Ill.: We like many in the Midwest have seen one of the wettest Oct. that we can remember. My neighbor and morning coffee partner decided as we had our morning discourse about the weather and how to handle the wet corn. Made a decision to try some of his May 20th planted DK 63-42. He did and took a sample for my new tester and he also took a sample to the local elevator it tested in my tester 34 and at the elevator 37.4 we were both taken a back. The next morning coffee time was, what are we going to do with that wet of corn, we both have allot of that number planted. We came to a decision based on our many years of farming Pray for a warm dry November and hope Fred our LP man has plenty on hand and CGB will give us time to deliver our fall contracts. Oh by the way the yields I did not even ask and he didn't say - moister shock can do that to you. We hope to do beans by mid week we will go around the wet holes and come back and get them when we are waiting on the corn dryer. Have a safe and blessed week.
- 11/2 - Will County, Ill. (50 miles south of Chicago): We are now very wet. Basically the last harvesting was done on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday (Oct. 21-23). We received 3.1" of rain. Soybean harvest in this area still stands at 30-40% complete. Since Oct 21, no soybeans have been harvested. As of today, received 3.5" rain this week, with .7" early in week, and last night and today an additional 2.8", so far. There has been a few operators taking a little corn out before this last big rain, moisture levels still reported to be in the 30 + % range, and field conditions are muddy. You can probably go ten miles in any direction of our farm and find less than 1 % of corn harvested. In our low spots today, we have corn standing in water, with water up to the ears, and in some places the ears are in the water. So far this month, we received 9.2", let’s hope Nov. will be dry.
- 11/2 - Shelby County, Iowa: Rain and drizzle today. Some beans out with about 160 acres left in the field. Corn half done moisture 19 t0 21.5 friend tested some still at 28%.It will take a few days of sunshine to get back in the beans. Good luck.
- 11/2 - Houston County, Minn.: Help me out here. I am confused. Just finished reading the crop comments. No harvest progress, beans to wet to combine or frosted while green. Corn molding, too wet to combine and many reports of very low test weight. Snow burying corn in Colorado and Nebraska. Flooding burying crops in Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, etc., etc. Was at the local elevator yesterday. They are in a bind because they have contracts to fill but either no beans are coming in or they have to reject them because of high moisture. Biggest crop ever coming in??? Where?
- 11/2 - Walcott, Iowa: Even though its rained all week, these guys are still in the field with tracks on combine. Photo by Doug Ratermann.
- 11/2 - Floyd County, Iowa: Corn is 32.5 wet, dried corn weighs 48.lbs.., not a leaf off the stalks, many go through combine, slows you down. Not much corn harvested yet. No one booked enough L.P., now it is $1.50 per gallon. Extension office say corn will not dry anymore in field. Just received 2.3 to 4 inches of rain thank God it isn't snow, over 12 inches of rain in October, water standing everywhere now.Beans are maybe two thirds harvested.
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