cuttin beans

stonerock

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been raining 3+ weeks on and off, cut beans when not raining beans running 15-14% taking a hit at the mill, bean ben's are full on both farms. hate to pull out dry to put wet in, bean ben only has a fan, got about 150 ac to go and about 300 corn, some corn starting to go down...some years you just dont win
 
I have to laugh at that. When we had the dealership, there was a large population of Polish and Chech farmers in the area. Great people and their word was golden. They would never buy anything on a Friday, or allow us to deliver a new machine to them on a Friday.
Loren
 
If it is like around here the weather is not there meaning the beans are tough. Even for the latest and greatest combines. Also, everybody is behind so nobody is available to help as their own work comes first.
 
got a 9610 and a 9600, 25 and 30' heads. beans were down to 14%, but ground was to wet. got the equipment when the weather breaks
 
Had that trouble a few years back. Beans were 16-17. Elevator/processor wouldn't take them. Ended up running then thru the dryer to get down to 13.
 
At 15% they're not docking you enough to even matter. Most guys would love to get them down that dry out of the field right now.
 
at those level go for heaven sakes, not enough dock to worry about, snow gets on then you will think again. why are you not picking the corn?
 
ztr mowers, the shrink on 15% moisture is 9.000%, been hauling with the straight trucks 400bu loads is 36.033 bu dock thats 360.00$ loss each truck. am a no-till farmer, to wet to pick corn...to much money to loose per truck, guess I dont farm like you do
 
davpal,normaly cut 13% or lower they will drop back down, will go again when the ground dries , we got two weeks of better weather commin
 
How dry are the ones in the bin???

I blended a lot of 10's and 14.5s this fall, and got 12- 12.5 at the port terminal. It can be done and beat the system with just a little planning. Think about it.
 
You're not getting docked 36 bushels on a load. You're hauling in 36 bushels worth of water weight. The bushels were never there to begin with. Think of it as a water tank on the truck that weighs another few hundred pounds. You didn't lose the bushels, you never had them to begin with. The dock on a load is very small. When we run beans at 15% instead of 13% the loss is so minimal it doesn't even matter. Getting them out of the field before you really start losing bushels to deer and snow is what's imortant.
 
there used to be a jewish cattle dealer in this area story as if walter couldn't make a deal first thing monday morning he wouldn't work rest of week.
he thought it was bad luck for rest of week not to make a deal on monday
 

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