harvest 2010 pics.

I know some of us were worried about and it came true, the harvest of 2010 starts in January. We harvested our first corn in october so this is our 4th month harvesting here in central IL.

Quite a bit of corn still to harvest and more disappears everyday. The snow is about 10" deep everywhere in the fields a there are drifts in places that are too deep to pick in. Corn is still good quality and standing for the most part.

A few of us got together to work on finishing up a neighbor. Our handicap here is he is on wide rows and there is very little wide row equipment left here.


This is my neighbor, as good a guy as there is anywhere. Like everyone else its been a tough fall for him. Wet corn, a big combine break down at a bad time and that has left him with a couple hundred acres of corn. Notice how much snow is in the rear tires.


Any place the corn isnt protected from the wind it is full of snow and must be left. At the same time it isnt frozen as much as you would think and occasionally we find a muddy spot.


None of us have ever picked in conditions like this. It is harder to get around in this snow than you would think. It hides any washed out spots and field entrances. We are using grain carts and loading semis on the roads. Yesterday the county road grader had to wait on me to get done unloading so he could continue to push snow back off the road. We are running three combines, three grain carts and two semis. We are getting about 70 acres a day as nothing works quite the way it should in this weather and the elevators are still pretty busy and the dryers are having touble keeping up still at this late date. While sitting in the field today I could see three other farmer picking corn. I'm sure I could have drove around and found three or four more. One more good day and we could finish. We will be talking about the 2009 crop season for generations to come.
bill

Don't feel bad, Bill. We are still harvesting here and are waiting for the snow to thaw down some. There will be a very fine line between "thaw" and "mud". I know of quite a bit of crop left to harvest around here. There are even some beans left. Mike

Thats insane to see the combine in the snow.Don't think thats every happened here in Washington.Good luck in finishing .Thanks for the pics.

Hey Rod, theres your Gleaner combine you talked about eariler!!!! lol j

Yep! and the country was littered with em back when they were new. Good old combines. What happened.....?

Rod

silver seeder right ? So I've been told

Where's Wrigley?

Harvesting corn in Jan in snow. Mind boggling.

Where is here, Mike.

There is one or 2 to finish around here in eastern Iowa.

They try to farm more than they should.

One hasn't finished before Christmas for 3or 4 years

Gary, "here" is northeast Missouri, in the Memphis, MO area. There is a lot of crop still in the field here. Worst harvest in memory. We've only had about two weeks since August, '08 that haven't been muddy. No kidding. And it wasn't in the spring or fall. Mike

LOL. Yeah...
The Deeres get known as 'big green super seeders' or 'giant green reseeding machine' around here too.

Rod

Finished my corn a week ago Monday. Neighbor still has a lot of his to go, but hasn't been working at it for some reason. Several other farms in the area also have some left. Saw a 7720 working yesterday. Combining in snow isn't uncommon here, but going into January is a little unusual.

Thanks for the pictures, Bill. I feel your pain. BTDT. It is no fun and you are right on when you say that you can't get a lot done in a day...everything seems to take a least double what it would in October. Good luck!

Nice pics bill, Dad finally got done this week. Hopefully you guys get him done. I took a couple of weeks off to help dad and it was definately not fun. It was to cold to stand at the auger and dump corn. Nothing wanted to run. Combine gelled up several times. It does feel good to be done, now we get to empty out the bins with wet corn in them

Wow Bill I feel the pain! I have been there and judging by the combine color and the row width you're helping out which makes you a saint bro. Like I said in a previous post it's like nothing you've ever seen before and it can happen to anyone in the midwest due to a wet fall and an early snow. Like we've always said in Viet Nam it's hard to fight what you can't see. Even though some blame it on the combine color but we hit it two years in a row once with a two Gleaners and a 1660AF all with 8row heads then the next year with a new CIH 2188 and 12row head you just can't get bet on stable footing no matter the color. Glad it's about over. CT