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Kelly in tx

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I've posted previously about our drought. I've now seen a sight new to me. It is combines
with grain headers harvesting corn. My friend tells me the ears are so tiny they just fall
through if the farmers use a row crop head. And because the stalks are so short and the ears
are so small they can use a small grains header to harvest corn. Lots of the farmers are
baling their corn stalks for feed/fodder too. WOW!
 
Kelly I have corn leaves and shucks in my yard. Nearest cornfield I know of to the south is near Kyle. I guess a whirlwind picked them up and deposited them here
 
Back in the 90's saw a guy shell corn with an IH 402 pull behind with the grain head. Had the reel pretty well raised up and cut just below the cobs. Interesting watching it go through the field...
 
Few weeks ago when we drove up 77 to Waco & I-35 to Ft. Worth, just about every corn field had round bales in it or they had been picked up already, if they had been harvested.
 
I have seen farmers swath the corn,[N.Dak.] let it lays for a week and bale it that way too! If the ears are small, dont even try to thresh them,you just loose those tiny kernals !
 
Yea, this farming gig can be tough, person needs good nerves and a steady disposition. Always a disaster waiting to wreck your world.

Ive heard of that sort of thing, grain head harvesting corn. It puts a lot more fluff through the combine, but in corn like you describe there isnt that much fluff to start with.

I bet the old JD row crop head would work well for that! What was the last year they made those?

Paul
 

Trailer load of Corn stalks caught on fire & burned just recently on I35W at Alvarado. One thing about feeding Corn stalk bales I dislike is when netwrap is cut bales explode making net difficult to retrieve.
 
Neighbor just got a load of stalks and one of the bales did just that when they were unloaded. Stalks are going for $40-45 for a 4x6
in the field around here.

Different neighbor just had 50 4x6s of beautiful Coastal, still greenish, net wrapped tight for $70 delivered...pair of 5 bale bumper
pull, easy dump trailers. She is the one with the 4052 that she is trying to clean up (exhaust) and it loaded up on her and I had to
stack her hay. Seems she and JD don't see eye to eye.

Yesterday afternoon it was 110F on my covered front porch under tree shade. Beef folks trimming their herds......we'll see if that
finds its way into the super market! Neighbor that bought the Coastal was going to sell but decided to wail till fall due to low market
pricing. May cover the price of her hay if the market rebounds adequately.
 
Loader work might be a mix of lot of low RPMs, light loads, and idling. Would it work better to simply shut it off rather than let it idle?
 
Dry there while here in south Louisiana it rains about every day,its hard to keep the grass cut in my yard its so wet
 
Kelly, they are also baling up rice straw down on the coast. The second cut rice actually makes pretty good hay....straw, not so much.
 
Have some big bales from last year , in the barn , wrapped and never rained on. I tried to sell them in June and wanted $40. The usual buyer wanted to quibble on the phone. Got busy with other things. Now the guy is leaving messages. He should of bit at $40. I will return his call in January and we can revisit the price issue. If he can find hay for his herd until then. Bet they are $100 by then.
 
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