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We finally got after the beans today. Jake got the header control straightened out for the most part.

Those look pretty good in the grain cart!

What kind of combine you running there?

I wouldn't know how to act in a field that big and flat...I might fall asleep....
I'm gona switch over to beans today...

That's a mighty nice combine!

What size header you run on it?

Richard - good to see that you allowed the combine to mature to red rather than acquiring it while it was still green!

While we were up in Minnesota (as far as Waseca) for a youth football game over the weekend (got snowed on), I noticed that while they were later in planting than we were down here, they had a lot more beans out than we did at this point.

A 20 foot header, it would handle a 25. 6 row corn head.

What kinda yeald you seeing on your beans..

59 bushels on the first field.

Is that an average yield for your area. Soybeans been tried here but they didn't work out. Too bad. They are easy to grow

70 bushels are very good beans for us. For the season we had, we are happy with the yield so far.

Grow any canola there? It's our "go to" crop. Good yielding consistantly. Long term soybean yields in the teens here. A lot of people have tried.

No canola, I think that is a northern crop. Other than hay, Iowa is corn, and soybeans. Pasture on rough ground.

Yes. A lot of corn and beans. My relatives (retired farmers) have their land rented. Corn and beans is all their tenants grow.

Forty years ago, we raised some Harco soybeans. I was amazed to see the beans were developed by Ontario ministry of Agriculture. Back then, I thought Ontario was only lakes, rocks, and trees. I learn as I age.

Always learning..... the best part of farming!!!

Send me a PM some time saskfox, my second language is Canuck.

They have been cutting them around here for a few weeks. No one is bragging about their yields though. Everything was planted late due to the wet Spring and a lot of ground did not get planted.

"I'm Captain Jinx of the horse marines ...."

I guess it was all the dry weather we have had, but when you pass a field here where a combine is cutting beans, there is a huge dust cloud. We were coming back home yesterday afternoon, and saw what I thought was smoke on the horizon, and I told my wife that it looked like a fire somewhere. Turned out to be the dust made by 4 combines in a bean field. That was a relief.