I am seeing a lot of corn being picked...

Dave H (MI)

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Hows the corn going across the northern states? Been using every excuse imaginable to roam the countryside looking at this years fall leaves. Lots of guys picking their corn now. These fields were all planted 2-3 weeks ahead of mine. I have a ways to go, still half green. All thru the month of June everywhere I went the wife was pointing out the fields of corn and saying..."his is a lot bigger than yours". Was starting to make me feel inferior. This past week I asked her why she weren't pointing at all the fields and saying..."his is a lot more shriveled up than yours". Give the ego a boost! In a strange sort of way.
 
a lot of guys here switched from beans to corn since its been too wet to do beans.

a couple still filling silos. Kinda depends on when you got things planted. we had good planting windows then rain, then a small window then rain. Kinda that way with harvest now.

REally surprised how much seed corn is still out yet at this time of year. i swear those guys pick as soon as there is a hint of the stalk changing color.
 
I'm a few weeks off even if the corn was ready to pick. I have to get this barn finished up first.
The ground is so wet I'd have trouble in spots I think. I still have some of that silage corn standing. Been chopping every three days and feeding it. I went down this morning and there was water standing on the south side of the field. I chopped about 2/3s of a load going one way on the north side. The wagon cut in pretty good in a few places.
 
Think a lot of the corn I'm seeing harvested is either for silage or seed corn. Those guys sure harvest theirs different. Have seen a number of semis piled high with stalks of corn - guessing they're going to dry it then actually shuck and remove the corn from the ears as a separate operation. Thinking ear corn is still pretty wet to pick or combine.

I'm going out and try to bale hay today. Actually, I'll be baling up the loose hay from broken bales, etc in the mow. At least then I can handle it for feeding. Still have a couple loads of straw in neighbor's polebarn that need to be stowed away in the barn.
 
Corn harvest is in full swing in some areas
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I'm done with hay for the year. I ran up to the courthouse and picked up my wife for lunch today and drove over to the field after. Big change in the corn this past week. Was green a week ago but mostly brown and dry today. Rattling in the wind. Better get the new chains and roller knives on the corn head. Going to poly the auger bed too. Hoping harvest is easier than planting was. Mud, mud and, (let me think)...more mud.
 
(quoted from post at 09:14:08 10/17/14) I'm a few weeks off even if the corn was ready to pick. I have to get this barn finished up first.
The ground is so wet I'd have trouble in spots I think. I still have some of that silage corn standing. Been chopping every three days and feeding it. I went down this morning and there was water standing on the south side of the field. I chopped about 2/3s of a load going one way on the north side. The wagon cut in pretty good in a few places.

A farm where I hung out as a kid is a big operation now. They have about 1,200 acres of corn for silage, and two weeks ago when I was working at the old family place in between downpours, their trucks were going by at pretty close intervals. When they are on wet ground they have big tractors at the low places that pull in behind the trucks as they come by. They follow just a few inches back, and if the truck starts to spin it gets a quick nudge and the operation doesn't slow down. They have a lot of equipment and a lot of employees. They buy plenty of new equipment but never new trucks or tractors.
 
Still working on beans for the most part in Boone County (central) Iowa. Not to many beans left so I imagine by Monday the trucks will really start rolling by the house.

Nate
 
Tested Corn Today, 19.5% Test Weight 53 Western Wisconsin (92 Day) Planted May 10th if weather holds up this week (Nice in the 60's)We will be combine this weekend!!
 

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