Harvest: Lets hear about it!!

[Mr.Goffena]

I'm not to informed on the corn grain harvest because I am the chopper tech for the local JD dealer. Chopper season is over for most ppl around here. There are a couple of guys that are still doing some earlage but it is getting to dry for that. I do know that most have started combining corn around here. Chopper season started out at around 70% moisture but dropped quickly do to an early hard freeze about a week after they started. The moisture droped quickly after the freeze. Most ppl switched to earlage in the last week or so of harvest and that was at about 40% or so. I tell you what when you cut earlage in 20% moisture and in high wind it doesn't look like any of it is even getting in the truck. I really should try to find time to take some pics of this stuff but I just never think of it at the time. I was in some corn this year that I had to stand on the back deck of a 7980 JD chopper to see over it. I do have to say that I love choppers just because they are some of the biggest Horse power users in ag industry.

[J-Mech]

Well, we finished up beans last night...... and we're all glad!! We still have some double crop beans to get, but they're still wet (butter-beans) so they will just have to wait. Now, on to finish corn! Still have over 400 acres to go. We're ready for this harvest to be over. Normally we're done long before now. It's late partially because of weather, late planting and rain during harvest. Also it's taking longer because everything did so well! Good problem to have, but not so good because it makes prices fall. Like, REALLY fall.


Here's a couple shots from the weekend. I was running the auger cart, unloading on the go. Had to switch over to one of the 2+2's because it go so wet. Needed a bigger tractor on the cart.

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[jimbob200521]

Originally Posted by J-Mech

Well, we finished up beans last night...... and we're all glad!! We still have some double crop beans to get, but they're still wet (butter-beans) so they will just have to wait. Now, on to finish corn! Still have over 400 acres to go. We're ready for this harvest to be over. Normally we're done long before now. It's late partially because of weather, late planting and rain during harvest. Also it's taking longer because everything did so well! Good problem to have, but not so good because it makes prices fall. Like, REALLY fall.


Here's a couple shots from the weekend. I was running the auger cart, unloading on the go. Had to switch over to one of the 2+2's because it go so wet. Needed a bigger tractor on the cart.

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Good pics, I love seeing those long nosed SOB's out there still earning their keep! How are your yields down there? We are so far coming in at about 210bu/acre adjusted for dry corn, so not too bad.

I'm right there with ya on finishing up harvest. We're down to 2 good sized fields, and 3 smaller ones and hoping to finish up in about a week to ten days (still something like 400+ acres left, I believe, we'll race ya!! ). I'm ready!! I've got fresh Cubs in the garage to get some wrench time in on, a go-kart to tinker with, a truck that needs some TLC, not to mention just being home. Oh well, it's all worth it in the bank account I suppose.

[J-Mech]

Beans were all over. Range from 45-60+. Most of what we've been in the last week or so were 55-65 BU/A. Corn, we've only shelled maybe 160 acres and I'm not sure what it came in at dry weight. My guess.... 140 BU/A. We can't grow 200+ corn here consistently. We don't have the soil for it. 140-160 is really good here. More than that and we're ecstatic! We may have some yield more than 160 dry, but dunno yet.

Race me huh....... I'm too tired to race.

This ol' man is wearing out.

[ACecil]

Watched the cotton pickers, pick the cotton behind the house. I always enjoy watching them. Sure glad they use the right equipment!

[jimbob200521]

Allen, that looks like a cotton picking good time! I didn't know you lived by those kind of fields, at first I cotton believe it!!!

[ACecil]

Ryan, I get a front row seat for all the fun...lol!

[J-Mech]

Hey those are really cool pics Allen!! Thanks for sharing! We don't have any cotton in Illinois, and I've seldom seen it, or a cotton picker for that matter.



We were shelling corn in the bottom ground today. (Down by the "river" in the low lying area's, where it's nice an wet!) I though I'd try and do a video set for one whole trip. Never done anything like this before, no do I have a cool Go-Pro camera like CAD does, so my phone was the official video cam. I "walk" you through unloading on the go, unloading the auger cart into the truck, driving the truck out of the bottom, weighing the truck and finally unloading. I tried to describe what I'm doing, what's going on and the why and how of what I'm doing. Keep in mind, it takes a lot of concentration to watch what I'm doing and run a cam at the same time, so sometimes as I'm rambling on it doesn't make sense, LOL. Some of the vids are during some pretty loud noise, and you can hardly hear me. Yes, it is very loud sometimes. One more thing..... I did not record these in the order they play in, so if some of my dictation is out of order that is why. I wasn't sure if I would be able to drive and hold the cam for every aspect, so I worked my way from the easiest to hardest parts. Well, enjoy!!

One round trip from field to the bin.

[bocephus1991]

Cool pics ! I ran one of those 2+2's pulling a grain cart for a neighbor once. It was a beast though. No doors no hood, quite the tractor!

[zippy1]

Cool set of videos Jonathan
Great shot out the windshield of the 2+2! Love those tractors.