Finished the oat and straw harvest today

Adirondack case guy · Aug 20, 2016

Well I can't post the farm name anylonger (named after a famost revolutionary war general that commanded the continental army) not the female blank running for pres.
Anyway here are pics of the final 2016 oat harvest. Had a good amount of straw where there was no new seeding planted, but where Alfalfa was planted and oats were a cover crop, our deluge of Aug rain caused the Alfalfa to grow as tall as the oats. Rolled only 5 round bales off one of the 22A field up between the woods where I cut firewood and where we tap the trees for maple syrup. The Alfalfa got a heck of a start though, and boy do the beans look really good.
Loren

rrlund · Aug 20, 2016

I finished cutting my weedy oats yesterday. Started clipping the straw this morning,but got rained off right after dinner. The wife just checked,she said an inch and a half of rain,so it'll be a day or two before I dare go back out there.

Bob Bancroft · Aug 20, 2016

Finished oat harvest here two weeks ago. Drought ravaged crop dried up early. Was a foot, to 18" tall. On a couple of fields I did something I've never done before- let the cutter bar down in the flex position, and used the auto. header height control. I ended up with more straw, and a lot more oats than last year, when they got flooded out.

tom stalker · Aug 20, 2016

Boom or bust in our valley Loren.

Corn or beans...if they didn't hit the timing right in the spring with the lack of late spring / summer rain

Those that hit the timing right in the spring...everything looks great

Your beans look beautiful

Until the last 3 weeks of rain....second cutting was thin

Adirondack case guy · Aug 20, 2016

Second cut alfalfa sucked here too. Left it grow till it was in full blossom about 5 weeks after first cut. Third cut is far thicker, taller and looking great only starting third week after second was cut.
Loren

Bruce from Can. · Aug 21, 2016

Weather has been a trial here for me as well . I have 27 acres of grain to combine, and it seems to shower every other day . Next week we are supposed to get a dry stretch so I will swath Monday. Any green stuff that has come up in the grain will dry enough after two days to run right through the combine , and I will get all of my straw . Swathing is one extra job but, straw is money , at least for me .

2underage · Aug 21, 2016

You are one busy man. You cut a lot of fire wood and finished the oats all in one day! I wish I had half of your energy. Just kidding and glad to see your posts. This is a great State that we live in and very scenic but I hope your great photos don't cause a bunch of those city dwellers to swarm to our area and spoil it for all.

centash · Aug 21, 2016

3 cents a pound for straw here....hardly can give it away. Ben

Bruce from Can. · Aug 21, 2016

At .03per pound is only $15.00 for a 500 lb bale . $30.00 for a 500 lb bale here , and even more east of here.

Bret4207 · Aug 21, 2016

Must be you guys got the rain we didn't Loren. We're hurtin' up here for lack of rain.

Finished the oat and straw harvest today

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