I'm sure that there are a few different hybrids planted, depending on the soil type and whether the farm was irrigated or dryland, but I don't have a report showing the yields by farm and hybrid yet. These guys mostly plant Pioneer hybrids, but I don't know what numbers or which farms they are grown on. Most of these farms are well drained and level, so there is seldom any stnding water anywhere, probably less than 2% of the tilled ground. I do know that some of the older center pivot corners that aren't irrigated are planted with a dryland hybrid that probably had lower yields. Understand that I'm not a farmer, just a land owner who is on-call to help with field work, plantiing, and harvest. I have helped out more in 2020 and 2021 because a couple of guys came down with COVID and they were short a semi driver. I don't have a CDL so I can't haul grain to the farm, but I can run a tractor and haul grain from the combine to the semi, freeing up the regular grain cart man to drive the semi. I usually just shuttle anhydrous tanks and the seed tender during planting and do parts runs and shuttle the service truck and fuel trailer, the easy non-technical, stuff.
I'm sure that there are a few different hybrids planted, depending on the soil type and whether the farm was irrigated or dryland, but I don't have a report showing the yields by farm and hybrid yet. These guys mostly plant Pioneer hybrids, but I don't know what numbers or which farms they are grown on. Most of these farms are well drained and level, so there is seldom any stnding water anywhere, probably less than 2% of the tilled ground. I do know that some of the older center pivot corners that aren't irrigated are planted with a dryland hybrid that probably had lower yields. Understand that I'm not a farmer, just a land owner who is on-call to help with field work, plantiing, and harvest. I have helped out more in 2020 and 2021 because a couple of guys came down with COVID and they were short a semi driver. I don't have a CDL so I can't haul grain to the farm, but I can run a tractor and haul grain from the combine to the semi, freeing up the regular grain cart man to drive the semi. I usually just shuttle anhydrous tanks and the seed tender during planting and do parts runs and shuttle the service truck and fuel trailer, the easy non-technical, stuff.
I'm sure that there are a few different hybrids planted, depending on the soil type and whether the farm was irrigated or dryland, but I don't have a report showing the yields by farm and hybrid yet. These guys mostly plant Pioneer hybrids, but I don't know what numbers or which farms they are grown on. Most of these farms are well drained and level, so there is seldom any stnding water anywhere, probably less than 2% of the tilled ground. I do know that some of the older center pivot corners that aren't irrigated are planted with a dryland hybrid that probably had lower yields. Understand that I'm not a farmer, just a land owner who is on-call to help with field work, plantiing, and harvest. I have helped out more in 2020 and 2021 because a couple of guys came down with COVID and they were short a semi driver. I don't have a CDL so I can't haul grain to the farm, but I can run a tractor and haul grain from the combine to the semi, freeing up the regular grain cart man to drive the semi. I usually just shuttle anhydrous tanks and the seed tender during planting and do parts runs and shuttle the service truck and fuel trailer, the easy non-technical, stuff.
I'm not a farm employee and even if I could legally haul grain on public roads I wouldn't want to. I help the farmers who rent from us because I want them to believe that renting from us isn't all about money, it is also about relationships and working together to have the best outcomes for all of us and for good stewardship of the land.
Finished the last 230 acres yesterday. 2 more guys have tested positive for COVID, so I may be helping with post-harvest field work for only the 2nd time in 17 years. If so, I'll need to make myself a check list and laminate it so that I don't forget to do something important. My neighbor had a volumteer farm hand back a combine into his pickup, damaging both the combine's ladder and the right front quarter of the pickup. I don't want to be that guy.
Independence, KS, is about 300 miles straight south of Omaha, far enough farther south such that planting can start earlier and the same days to maturity corn can be harvested earlier,
Watertown, SD, is about 300 miles straight north of Omaha, far enough farther north such that planting starts later and I'd guess that a shorter days to maturity corn would need to be planted to avoid having to harvest in the snow in most years.
Our harvest started later than usual, but I think that was due to planting longer days to maturity corn. Whatever the reason, the yields were exceptional, everything that could have influenced yields was positive and everybody is happy, even the 3 guys who tested positive for COVID. Even better, for me, was that I didn't break anything, didn't spill any grain, didn't get anything stuck, and helped to keep things running smoothly.
