Pickin and a little grinnin

RBnSC

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The rain held off for us to pick some of our corn (Sorry no pictures). We picked 6 gravity wagons of ear corn that partially Filled a 20 ft. shipping container and sold 100 bags. I combined 146 bushels before the machine sprung a leak. The next day we fixed it and the third day we picked 270 bushels and stopped as the price had dropped from $5.00 to $4.75. I generally run the One row ear picker and My brother runs the combine. He had shoulder surgery a few months ago and is unable to climb up down and operate the 4420 JD. I haven't operated one in 40 years and that was Dad's Gleaner A. I have to say I thoroughly enjoyed myself. Looking forward to getting back to it tomorrow if the weather holds up.
Ron
 
How is your brother doing after the surgery. I am 7 months into it and doing great, the first 5 months were He!!.
 
Interesting you're using a shipping container to store new ear corn. How dry is it, do you have ventilation in the container?
 
It aint the best thing . It needs some vents on top. We leave it open as much as we can to let it dry more. The moisture condenses on the sides and runs down and makes the corn rot on the edges. Its what we have.
Ron
 
He is doing good. He hurts after he goes to rehab and after he crawls under the combine to patch a hole. All in all he has done well.
Ron
 
If your corn is not pretty dry it will spoil in the shipping container if you do not have any forced air ventilation. I tried to use them years ago to store ear corn and it was a mess. Half rotten corn is what I got.

As for the JD 4420 combine. They are a nice smaller combine. Pretty good with a 4x30 head.

As far as the price. I think that you will not see the $5 corn until after harvest if then. If we have a good harvest the days of $5,6 & $7 corn are over.

Nation wide and world wide the high corn prices has caused two things to happen.

1) The end users have switched to cheaper protein/starch sources. There is a lot of feed grade wheat now that was not there 3 years ago.

2) There is corn being raised in places that have not raised much corn before. They may not be raising 200 BPA corn but maybe they can make it on 50 BPA corn in that area. I read last Jan. that South Africa was exporting corn. That is not a normal export for them.
 
How long has it been for him?

I was really getting depressed about 3-4 months into it, then it got better in a hurry.
 
Are you using cabbage bags or feed sacks for the corn? I bagged some last week at 22% in cabbage bags and it has kept fine and actually dried down a good bit.
 

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