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timdcrossley
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 Posted - 10/30/2009 : 08:34:13 AM
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Hey Dennis, No dirty tools are aloud in the shop! Besides, almost all of our farm equipment is parked in a wet, wet barn yard over near New Castle, IN waiting for dry weather. We will finish beans next week.
Yesterday we got the second bin fitted with a burner. I bought a 7120 Magnum and another auger cart. Tuesday Obermeyer Young will have the dryer going.
Next week we will knock out beans, then back to corn and running it thru the dryer if everything goeas smooth.
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yotebustin
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Posted - 10/30/2009 : 09:26:46 AM
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| let it dry naturally. yeah if we dont get a snowstorm. in a perfect world that would be ideal but snowstorms happen. |
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dennis1
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Posted - 10/30/2009 : 09:40:44 AM
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tim,
Have you looked out the window yet?
IF EVERYTHING GOES SMOOTH--
time to wake up |
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tw
297 Posts |
Posted - 10/30/2009 : 10:50:32 AM
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quote:
[i]Originally posted by dennis1[/i]
[br]tim,
Have you looked out the window yet?
IF EVERYTHING GOES SMOOTH--
time to wake up
No rain here on the ohio border yet-still runnin no ruts-knock on wood
govt. can only confiscate wealth from one sector and transfer it to another sector-glowplug |
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WCKS
18 Posts |
Posted - 10/30/2009 : 11:10:25 AM
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| There was a comment made in another thread takling about the fact that the ground in the dakota's isn't tiled. This is something I was talking to a neighbor about a couple of days ago about western KS, we are not used to having this kind of moisture and our soils don't drain. Our soils are like a bank and hold moisture very well, these soils are what we rely on to grow a crop. It will be a very long time before we can get in the fields without making a big mess. I will agree with other posters that this will wreck fields for no-tillers. |
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48
6223 Posts |
Posted - 10/30/2009 : 1:11:13 PM
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WCKS: On Oct. 25, 1997 we had a 24" blizzard. The only reason
that I jog your memory is...the most important thing is getting
the crop out. If that means you have to trash a no till field...
so be it. That's why I keep a full line of tillage equipment
even though I no till dryland and strip till irrigated. You can
always go back to conventional till for a year to fill the ruts
and straighten the field out so you can go back to no till. Too
many make no till a religion to be followed on blind faith.
The most important thing is harvesting the crop and putting
the money in the bank so you will be around for the next year.
Had .70 rain in the guage at 7pm last night, and it was still
coming down. Woke up to blowing snow. I would guess 1 1/2" snow.
Now, the sun is shining and supposed to be nice for a while. |
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dennis1
1244 Posts |
Posted - 10/30/2009 : 1:45:38 PM
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48,
you need to start our air compressor--you are
losing the blow hard reputation
When it will cost more in repairs and maintainance-
equipment and land, even the banker will say give it
some time--unless he has you completely by the short
hairs, then it might be his equipment and land
no matter if the crop comes in or not....
What the neighbors got out of the milo they used tracks
on last year won't even pay the interest on a new set of
tracks. Besides that, they had to haul the combine both
ways to and from the fields, plus pay the tire man to
jack and furnish the air and tools to make the switch
to and from tires to tracks, and back.
Cosmetic harvesting is like giving a woman a credit card
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timdcrossley
392 Posts |
Posted - 10/30/2009 : 2:11:11 PM
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Wow, this morning we didn't do anything because rain was moving in....It's after 2PM and there still is no rain. Matter of fact the sun is shinning! Unreal. We will work on beans the next dry day we get!
Life is good! |
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dennis1
1244 Posts |
Posted - 10/30/2009 : 2:21:27 PM
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WCKS,
Do a faust with an original twist--pull the planter
behind the combine----next spring.
We can see where the sun is in the sky---almost shadows,
Halloween is near. |
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48
6223 Posts |
Posted - 10/30/2009 : 2:21:50 PM
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quote:
[i]Originally posted by dennis1[/i]
[br]48,
you need to start our air compressor--you are
losing the blow hard reputation
When it will cost more in repairs and maintainance-
equipment and land, even the banker will say give it
some time--unless he has you completely by the short
hairs, then it might be his equipment and land
no matter if the crop comes in or not....
What the neighbors got out of the milo they used tracks
on last year won't even pay the interest on a new set of
tracks. Besides that, they had to haul the combine both
ways to and from the fields, plus pay the tire man to
jack and furnish the air and tools to make the switch
to and from tires to tracks, and back.
Cosmetic harvesting is like giving a woman a credit card
EXPENSIVE
Dennis: I'm not advocating buying tracks. On Wed. I was rutting
up my Lessee's fields pretty bad...ruining them from a
no till stand point...well...not really...but from a purist's
stand point. It was academic anyway cuz he has so many weeds
out there...in RR corn!!!...lol...that it can't be no tilled
back anyway. I'm just saying...that the whole point of this
is to harvest a crop and make money...not leave a perfect
field to no till back into.
The only reason I go to banks is to deposit money...not to
borrow money! lol. |
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farmertodd1966
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Posted - 10/30/2009 : 10:32:12 PM
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| Hey guys...I live in southern Ky...and may have bought the last used dryer in the area.It is a Farms Fan 500 bu. batch unit.Here most corn is still 20-26% wet and this is Kentucky...not Iowa.We have cut very little beans yet.The yield in good....180-220 corn....50-75 beans.This year is the year to have moved the pop. up alittle more.We ran 60 acres of corn today...before it rained.I hate ruts...but atleast we are not planting any wheat this fall. |
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groundhog
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4450
262 Posts |
Posted - 10/31/2009 : 05:53:07 AM
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| I have to agree with 48. I just finished cutting beans by plowing ruts through the field like you can't believe. But I was able to call the landlord and tell him his beans were in the elevator. I wouldn't have the nerve to call him and tell him I wasn't going to harvest his beans until the ground either dried-up or froze because I didn't want to leave a track. Even though he likes no-till. I've lost wheat to harvest-time hail storm. I've also beat a harvest time hail storm by one day that totaled all the un-cut wheat in the area. If you own the land, then you can do what you want. But if I ever rent my land out, I want someone who is going to get the crop out as soon as he can. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. |
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ECI
1234 Posts |
Posted - 10/31/2009 : 05:56:51 AM
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| 4450 , glad to hear you got your beans in , good deal ! Ken |
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WCKS
18 Posts |
Posted - 10/31/2009 : 09:32:43 AM
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48: I do remember the blizard of '97 very well, I finished harvesting the morning before it started. My crew and I busted it to the shop with the machinery to get it cleaned up and put away before it hit. By the time we got everything cleaned up and headed to the storage shed, which is a fair piece from my shop, it had started snowing a little. By the time I was about half way to the storage shed it was snowing and blowing terrible. Not good conditions to be roading a combine down the highway if I remember right. LOL
I am very well aware of the importance of getting the crop out, I was just making general statements about a conversation I had with a neighbor and the general consensus about the conditions here. Since I have switched back to strip till I am not concerned about a few ruts, but why cut ruts if the ECI sampling is comming out at 25% plus? If the moisture would get under 20% and with drier air on the way I would start picking some and putting it in the bin. You can't air dry corn with wet air. |
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2009 harvest progress report
