Grain just can't seemed to dry down.

Bruce from Can. · Aug 18, 2015

Tried to run some grain swaths through the combine today, managed to bung the cylinder , grrrr! Humid weather is a pain. have had grain swathed for 4 days , and the straw still feels tough. Now rain is in the forecast. I guess if farming where easy, everyone would do it. Bruce

centash · Aug 18, 2015

Same here. Standing oats remained at 17 to 18 percent for several days; got one good drying day in yesterday, down to 14. Combining at .8 mph in places down so bad. Yield is an icredible 140 bu/ac. Neighbours ran over 160. Now, the price....

Ben

JD Seller · Aug 18, 2015

Bruce your finding out why I have not harvested oats as grain in 20 years or more. I gave up after having several GOOD crops sprout in the heads while in the windrow after rains. I now just chop any oats we raise. If I need straw I raise wheat and direct cut it standing.

Bruce from Can. · Aug 19, 2015

Some of our grain has been down too, but not in any one direction. Looked like the wind sort of swirled it and twisted the grain around ,and the heavy rain beat it down. I put crop lifters on the swather evey 18 inches and they did a remarkable job of lifting the down grain. Not prefect but, a lot of grain got cut that would have not gone into the swath without the lifters. Bruce

Chris in SK · Aug 19, 2015

Hope the weather picks up soon for you. Combining or swathing any downed crop is never fun, and neither is tough oat straw! I usually put a lift on every 4th guard finger. Putting a lifter through the combine isn't much fun either.

Ande · Aug 19, 2015

Bruce, like to send you some dry weather, we had a nonstop harvest. And its bone dry here. 9% moisture on hard wheat. Golden brown color

Grain just can't seemed to dry down.

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