Corn. - 10/23/21
We just got a good start Thursday.![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/7Hgqqos.jpg)
Re: Corn. - 10/23/21
Go get 'em! 
Re: Corn. - 10/23/21
We were rained out yesterday, we're gunning for after dinner.
Re: Corn. - 10/24/21
Most of the corn here has been combined. Yields were good. That looks like good corn Richard.
Re: Corn. - 10/24/21
We're hoping for 200 James.
Re: Corn. - 10/24/21
Rained out.
Re: Corn. - 10/24/21
A welcome rain here today. I need a day or two off.
Re: Corn. - 10/24/21
Quite a bit of rain here today.
Re: Corn. - 10/24/21
Lots of much-needed rain over here as well.
Re: Corn. - 10/26/21
We finished up all our crops Saturday. Corn went about 170. Not sure on beans yet.
But the harvest is done!
But the harvest is done!
Re: Corn. - 10/26/21
Still wet today, work on the new corral some more.
Re: Corn. - 10/27/21
More rain today, pluggin' on the corral.
Re: Corn. - 10/28/21
Rain here too we have some of the best corn ever most fields are breaking 200
Re: Corn. - 10/28/21
I was hoping for a day or two off, looks like it'll be a week and a half at best. Probably gonna wind up with 6"-7" all told. It's soaking in though which is a good thing.
It's gonna be a bin buster year if I can ever get in to pick it.
It's gonna be a bin buster year if I can ever get in to pick it.
Re: Corn. - 10/28/21
More rain in NW Iowa as well.
Re: Corn. - 10/28/21
We started early and ran late thru last Saturday, 10/23/21, before it started raining buckets. We tried to finish on Tuesday, 10/26/21, but it was too wet and we quit rather than cause more soil compaction and probably having stuff stuck in the mud. Still have about 230 acres of standing corn, but need some dry and windy weather before the fields and county roads will be firm enough to handle the weight of loaded combines, carts, and semis. Corns is running around 277 which is making everybody happy, happy, happy and looking forward to the best payday since 2014.
Re: Corn. - 10/29/21
Still wet in NW Iowa.
Re: Corn. - 10/29/21
I'm sure it'll be Monday before I will be able to get back in the field. We've had a lot of rain over the past week.
Re: Corn. - 10/29/21
Wet is an understatement, it is downright soggy here, so I went hunting. Corn will be there when I get back.
Re: Corn. - 10/29/21
Originally Posted by 260Remguy
We started early and ran late thru last Saturday, 10/23/21, before it started raining buckets. We tried to finish on Tuesday, 10/26/21, but it was too wet and we quit rather than cause more soil compaction and probably having stuff stuck in the mud. Still have about 230 acres of standing corn, but need some dry and windy weather before the fields and county roads will be firm enough to handle the weight of loaded combines, carts, and semis. Corns is running around 277 which is making everybody happy, happy, happy and looking forward to the best payday since 2014.
Re: Corn. - 10/29/21
The first 1,204 yielded an average 267 bpa.
The last 1,232 yielded an average of 277 bpa.
that leaves 230 acrea still standing.
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.
The last 1,232 yielded an average of 277 bpa.
that leaves 230 acrea still standing.
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.
Re: Corn. - 10/30/21
Originally Posted by 260Remguy
The first 1,204 yielded an average 267 bpa.
The last 1,232 yielded an average of 277 bpa.
that leaves 230 acrea still standing.
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.
The last 1,232 yielded an average of 277 bpa.
that leaves 230 acrea still standing.
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.
Are you a farm employee over 18? You may not need a CDL by law. Check with insurance too.
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Re: Corn. - 10/30/21
Originally Posted by 24HourCampFireGuy50
Originally Posted by 260Remguy
The first 1,204 yielded an average 267 bpa.
The last 1,232 yielded an average of 277 bpa.
that leaves 230 acrea still standing.
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.
The last 1,232 yielded an average of 277 bpa.
that leaves 230 acrea still standing.
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.
Are you a farm employee over 18? You may not need a CDL by law. Check with insurance too.
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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.
Re: Corn. - 11/01/21
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.
Re: Corn. - 11/01/21
Amazing how a little distance makes a difference. The corn has been gone from here (SE KS) for two months.
Re: Corn. - 11/01/21
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.
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.
Re: Corn. - 11/02/21
Just now in from the field, When the hours are long, I think of this song.
Re: Corn. - 11/02/21
Gonna try to get back out today. This covid stuff has been kicking our butts for the last week or so.