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timdcrossley
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 Posted - 10/07/2009 : 08:34:19 AM
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The sky is sun shiny and pretty today. I made 3020's & ECI's rain go around us and head toward Bins and JDMax. I think I can cut 200 acres of beans today. There was no dew last night, corn is down to 18% and drying fast......
Back to reality, rain, rain and more rain. Beans are cutting tough (when you can get in the field). Corn is wet. Dry or not, I would guess the corn will stand another 3-4 weeks before we even think about it. In my opinion, this is where grain bins pay big. When Coop is full and there is a line, we will be shelling. Build bins....
Keep your chin up, we are all fighting the same battle! There has NEVER been a year yet that we have not harvested the crop.
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iadave
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Posted - 10/07/2009 : 09:54:30 AM
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I beg to differ on the "never been a year we didn't get a crop out".
We have had had more than one. Course we got two out the next year,
but it really make it hard to get the next one in when your combining instead of planting! |
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timdcrossley
392 Posts |
Posted - 10/07/2009 : 10:12:55 AM
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IA Dave: Point well taken. I have never harvested past Nov before in my life but I know people have. This year will be my first. Regardless, we are all in the same boat and everything will work out! We all need to worry about things that within our control and don't worry about the other stuff.
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Edited by - timdcrossley on 10/07/2009 10:27:11 AM |
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Faust100F
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Posted - 10/07/2009 : 10:58:58 AM
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| Tim - W T F are you doing on the internet? it is 9:52 AM, here in gods country, why are you not in the field getting those crops out? You should have been done by now, had the equipment lubed, washed off, the grain heads repainted and cabs vacuumed out for next year, and sitting in the coffee shop whining with your neighbors about grain prices. You know you are going to have to take it up a notch, and get back in the game or your reputation in the community may be tarnished. They just do not make farmers like they used too. Adios Amigo. John. |
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ECI
1234 Posts |
Posted - 10/07/2009 : 12:02:08 PM
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John your not going to belive this but I call'd Tim
yesterday on the TX at 11:06 and guess were he was,
He was setting on this a$$ IN THE HOUSE !!!!!!!!!!!
I been at the shed since 6 , lubeing up the old girl
O I mean the combine ,cleaning out the cab , just
getting tune'd up ,Anyway he said he need to go , He need'd
to call this wife back , 10 bucks say's she was on her
way home and he haul'd a$$ to the shed so she would
think he was doing something !
BTW Tim , My dad use'd to tell me , Son there is always
something to on a farm every day , The day you don't think
that ,your just fooling your self ,LMAO
Have a good day Tim ! Ken |
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Agnut
137 Posts |
Posted - 10/07/2009 : 12:46:39 PM
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Just read Faust's last post. Just to ease the confusion, I always thought that we put a crop out at planting and brought a crop in at harvest. Am I right or wrong. Just wondering what the rest of the country thinks.
Going out to check sb's on the off chance that they might run. |
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timdcrossley
392 Posts |
Posted - 10/07/2009 : 2:17:33 PM
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Faust: Here is the truth. ECI was close but not exact! It was 11:07 (not 11:06) and I had to call my wife back because I missed her call. She was on here way home with her dad. She had taken him to the hospital (check up). I was in the house to eat lunch because my wife wasn't around to fix it. I did NOT watch The Adny Griffith show like I normally do! I was in the field before 11:40 and the beans were plenty tough then.
So ECI was close but not exact!
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dennis1
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Posted - 10/07/2009 : 2:41:59 PM
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No matter what time this shows for posted, it is now
1:41 pm Central S time--the soybeans are where they ended
up yesterday---15%, the guys with bins and air--started,
NO dust, reel came off the Red POS (48's version of a
combine)---our combine is under a roof---clouds south of
I-70 moving NE---we are still in clear--EXCEPT for the stuff
building this side of Trinidad and La Junta and moving NE.
Couldn't get the correct spelling, so it is now 1:44. |
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IA CORN FARMER
1041 Posts |
Posted - 10/07/2009 : 5:34:09 PM
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[i]Originally posted by Agnut[/i]
[br]Just read Faust's last post. Just to ease the confusion, I always thought that we put a crop out at planting and brought a crop in at harvest. Am I right or wrong. Just wondering what the rest of the country thinks.
Going out to check sb's on the off chance that they might run.
It is now 4:39pm Central Time and sitting in a bar having a beer.
But this is scary, I talk like Faust, we also say putting a crop in at spring and taking it out in the fall. Must be a Iowa thing.
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ECI
1234 Posts |
Posted - 10/07/2009 : 9:32:06 PM
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Well if we get all the rain they say we might get
we might be saying we put the crop in the spring and
take it out in the spring ! Ken |
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JDMax
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Posted - 10/07/2009 : 10:04:46 PM
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quote:
[i]Originally posted by timdcrossley[/i]
[br]The sky is sun shiny and pretty today. I made 3020's & ECI's rain go around us and head toward Bins and JDMax. I think I can cut 200 acres of beans today. There was no dew last night, corn is down to 18% and drying fast......
Back to reality, rain, rain and more rain. Beans are cutting tough (when you can get in the field). Corn is wet. Dry or not, I would guess the corn will stand another 3-4 weeks before we even think about it. In my opinion, this is where grain bins pay big. When Coop is full and there is a line, we will be shelling. Build bins....
Keep your chin up, we are all fighting the same battle! There has NEVER been a year yet that we have not harvested the crop.
Life is good!
Thanks Tim for the rain,lol. Just got a couple of showers early last night but the wind blew so hard that that is was dried off by noon. been getting the beans out and in the bin. things have been running pretty smooth,(knock on wood).
The more I'm around a red POS, the better I like it!LMAO The only combine I knew was GREEN!
Take care, stay safe everyone
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timdcrossley
392 Posts |
Posted - 10/08/2009 : 08:25:57 AM
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I know I love my Red POS. We were able to cut another 30 acres yesterday. We quite at 8:30 because the were soppy wet from the dew. At the rate of 30 acres per day it will be a very long harvest. Looks like we have plenty of tome for planning. 2-4' of rain comeing in later today.
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48
6223 Posts |
Posted - 10/08/2009 : 09:36:56 AM
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Hey fellers:
How many of you in NE+IA north of I80 are blacklayered?
In IL+IN north of I74, how many are black layered???
In IN+OH north of I70, how many are black layered???
Black Layer is physiological maturity at 30% moisture.
Let's try to figure out how many bil bu of corn is going
to be low test weight due to the freeze.
We may see $4 cash corn again. lol. |
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r3020
3877 Posts |
Posted - 10/08/2009 : 10:41:55 AM
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Just come accross the county highway scanner, we are supposed to get 6-7 inches. Hope they're wrong!!
"The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it."--H.L. Mencken |
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timdcrossley
392 Posts |
Posted - 10/08/2009 : 11:18:24 AM
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48: Rough numbers would be:
About 220 acres of corn in the mid 20%'s on moisture planted April 27
About 200 acres right on 30% planted May 12th
About 325 acres that thinks it is August (25% more milk line to go to black) planted May 22nd
We were done planting corn on May 24th.
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2009 harvest progress report
