Wheat harvest - the saga continues

David from Kansas · Jun 19, 2016

Just got started cutting again after a one day break because of rain and it rained again Friday eve/night. About 2" most places. So....maybe tomorrow (Monday) will try again. Ground is getting really muddy. I'm sure the wheat will be dry before the ground is.

notjustair · Jun 19, 2016

Wheat was ready today but my heart wasn't in it. Every necessary machine has broken down this week and I couldn't bear another. I spent the day planting beans instead. Tomorrow the combine will start rolling, though. No one is in full swing here (northeast Kansas) but there was a lot of test cutting before the big storm that came through Thursday night. Tomorrow I won't be the only one in a combine here. I don't have a lot as I had to but all new certified seed got his crop. I'll be done in a few days. I've still got 8 hard days of bean planting at least.

4435 · Jun 19, 2016

Here is my contribution. Everest variety, 60+ Bu./acre across the scale averaged. 61+ lbs./test Moisture was in the lower 12s'. It was a hot miserable SOB in the truck. The wheat wacker was nice and cool inside though.
Second best I have ever raised. We are severely challenged here In SEK by wet weather and fungus usually.

This little field was getting pretty lazy. The other patch was on the east side of those trees and was 99 percent erect. Tom

notjustair · Jun 20, 2016

Mine is Everest as well, Tom. I expected tons of vomitoxin, but everything I have picked and hand
threshed to check had no signs of pink. I was wanting to bale a bunch of straw but the stuff isn't
very tall this year.

dhermesc · Jun 20, 2016

Around Manhattan that "big storm" was good for 10 hundreds of an inch - if that - I didn't get a drop. Starting to get real dry around here.

Weatherman keeps predicting rain for tomorrow and it doesn't happen. I keep wanting to cut hay but since its all going to horse people I can't let it rain on it. Would missed 7 days in a row I could/should have cut because of 40%-70% chance of rain predicted a day out. Put down 400 square bales on Friday on the off chance it wouldn't rain - should have put down a 1000 bales.

1206SWMO · Jun 20, 2016

Wheat harvest is about done here...Most fields averaged 50-70 bushels but have heard of a few fields in the 80-110 range..

The corn sure looks good for only getting a little over 1" of rain so far in June...It desperately needs rain soon...

Bobl1958 · Jun 20, 2016

Man Dave - all that rain missed me up here in Central KS. I would love to see it now, since all the hay is in the shed. Baled a couple hundred small squares of super nice wheat straw yesterday. Good straw and combined it high. Took the swather and mowed a few windrows. Found some willing helpers and we baled it all up and got it in the shed. Tonight I start putting the eqt in the shed until next year. Bob

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