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Faust100F
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 Posted - 11/04/2009 : 12:41:56 PM
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Well boys Indian Summer finally arrived here in Gods Country across the River. Monday I cranked up Big Foot cut a half hopper of beans, tested 14.5%, shut it down. Should be about 13% this afternoon (Wednesday), if they are, looks like we have six or seven nice Sunny days ahead of us. Water still Standing in an untiled field across the road, but my fields are solid it does pay to have fields that are tiled out.
Now if I can get the Xmas tree lights on my console inside my cab to stop blinking and the buzzers to shut down, should be the start to a great harvest. Talked to a building company this morning the building will be here early next week. It will take about one day to erect it. to put up a building I can pull my semi under and two grain auger carts, and four gravity flow wagons and a combine. So my days of tarping grain wagons, auger carts, and a semi, are over. No more twisting off unloading augers in the combine when everything is full and cannot move because of gravel roads turned to mud.
I just do not know how I managed to take corn and soybeans out over the past 35 + years with a combine without monitors, and sensing units inside a combine cab. Big foot is running great, just as it was when I shut it off last year, but the Xmas tree inside my cab and the buzzers say otherwise. Soooooooooo I am stopping by my JD Consultant Parts Provider in a few hours to pick up the sensors I need replaced. I am sure they will have their theory why things as they are, I mean after all they went to Parts Replacement School. Wonder what they are going to say when I tell them the combine is working perfectly, but I have to spend a few hundred dollars to get the noise and flashing lights in the cab shut off.
Farmers are still crying North of I-80 about low test weights, high moisture corn (38%) in eastern Iowa, and the huge drying charges. But . . . those guys have always been crybabies.
Met with my Crop Insurance agent this morning, he said I had three more checks coming, and I thought everything had been paid. He went to crop insurance school yesterday, and said the disaster payment due to be paid by FSA this month on 2008 losses should be about 30% of the loss paid out on Crop Insurance that year, he said it could be a bit more. We are also eligible for those payments for the 2009 crop year since Iowa was one big disaster again this year.
Soooooo I want to thank Taxpayer, Okie, tw, and Justin for their continued support. Adios Amigos. John. |
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Kansascowman
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Posted - 11/06/2009 : 1:37:12 PM
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We have Indian summer too, I am not sure for how long. Neighbors pulled in on wet ground across the road from where I was cutting Wednesday and pulled out again in an hour, plowing was too hard.
I wonder if I am the only one suffering from "clenched anus" syndrome(might get censored)? You get that from combining beans the creek has been over. It is like being blind and combining, the dust swirls around you and once in a while you see the ground. You are clenched because you hope you see whatever has drifted into the field. To go along with this I have advanced harvest/weaning/fall calving fatigue syndrome. I am trying to do all three, and not doing a great job with any one of them, although I guess I am holding my own. These short days are a real downer, but we will be OK if Indian summer lasts till Christmas. |
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wctyilfarmer
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Posted - 11/06/2009 : 9:23:52 PM
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[i]Originally posted by Kansascowman[/i]
[br]We have Indian summer too, I am not sure for how long. Neighbors pulled in on wet ground across the road from where I was cutting Wednesday and pulled out again in an hour, plowing was too hard.
I wonder if I am the only one suffering from "clenched anus" syndrome(might get censored)? You get that from combining beans the creek has been over. It is like being blind and combining, the dust swirls around you and once in a while you see the ground. You are clenched because you hope you see whatever has drifted into the field. To go along with this I have advanced harvest/weaning/fall calving fatigue syndrome. I am trying to do all three, and not doing a great job with any one of them, although I guess I am holding my own. These short days are a real downer, but we will be OK if Indian summer lasts till Christmas.
we are in the bottoms also , leaves half way up the bean stalk,$41t buried under the leaves, dumping in wagon you have to shut auger off and wait for the dust to leave so you can see how much is in it. muddy on top. |
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taxpayer
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Posted - 11/07/2009 : 01:40:46 AM
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| Faust, I'll be signing up for SURE too. Could be very complicated for a multi county-multi crop producer. I'll be glad when we get one year of it behind us, so we will know better how it works. |
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Iowa55
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Posted - 11/09/2009 : 08:20:34 AM
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Just love this weather, A few frogs and cricket singing and grasshoppers are flying.
Just got the last 40 acres of hay baled last night. 8th of Nov. - time to be done with hay. If the corn would dry down - corn stalk bales. AAAAGGHHH. |
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Faust100F
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Posted - 11/15/2009 : 2:27:42 PM
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Taxpayer - yeah! I a sat out of the government program last year,and again this year, SURE may be a good thing, but we will have to see if ICF hits the jackpot. He was going to buy me a new pickup. It sure is a bad thing, when the USDA cannot provide information which would let a person calculate the benefit before he signed up, rather than wait for a year to find out whether he guessed right.
Love these jD Engineers, to put on a slip clutch sprocket on a tailings auger, I have to take four bolts out of the fuel tank and jack it up to get the old one off. It is amazing to me that JD is still in business, with the Engineering that goes on to build their equipment. There is always a trick to putting a part on.
Keep those silver tipped boots shined, and that 4X Beaver Stetson clean. By the way, I have thrown Texas Tech under the bus, I am now a fan of TCU, last nights game was one of the best I ever watched. I think they could beat Texas. Adios Amigo. John |
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