O.k. I'm new to farming, I started a with small piece of ground on the family farm, I planted corn, I didn't get it in the ground until June 21st, I unknowingly planted a variety of corn meant for silage, my question is will this ever dry out, if it's cold enough that it's frozen can I run it through the combine?
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1370pwr in ne
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what does your corn test for moisture?And what do you do with the corn after you combine it?I'm sure you could combine it but corn over 16 percent moist won't keep when it warms up in the spring.Maybe a cattle feeder would buy high moisture corn.thats one option we have here.
Cliff Nelson
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It's been a tough year to get corn dry here here in WI. We just finished today with some still at 20% moisture. With snow in the forecast we decided to pay for drying and be done. Plus it's been cold enough this week that the combine could stay on top of the mud and water (3-4 inches of frost). I don't know where you're located or what you want to do with the corn, which will make a difference to how it may dry and how to deal with it.
I'm in Northern Illinois, I don't have a tester yet, but I will say that when it thawed out it was still juicy, so probably not even worth testing at that point, my plan originally was to just sell it at the elevator. Now I'm thinking just use it to make sure we have the combine set correctly, I'm afraid though if it starts to break up in the machine it might just clog it up and then I'll have more of a mess to deal with. Will more waiting help at this point or should I just leave it for the deer or mow it down?
You might as well leave it until spring. It'll dry by then. The condition by then might be another story. Did it dent? If not,then it won't be worth anything but feed. I finished a field with a white cob silage variety planted June 8th and had the same problem. It was actually a seven day earlier variety than the rest of the field,but it was wringing wet. I ended up chopping that and feeding it up. I chopped the last load Thanksgiving day. I'd just run some out on the ground to the cows every day. It took four days to feed up a load. If that isn't an option,about all you can do is wait.
Back in 92 we had the same situation. All of the corn here froze dead in an early September freeze. The corn didn't even dent that year. I tried picking some in February and it sprouted in the crib. A guy out east of town shelled his in May,a neighbor and I bought it for cattle feed. It was extremely light and had an odd smell,but the cows ate it.
Back in 92 we had the same situation. All of the corn here froze dead in an early September freeze. The corn didn't even dent that year. I tried picking some in February and it sprouted in the crib. A guy out east of town shelled his in May,a neighbor and I bought it for cattle feed. It was extremely light and had an odd smell,but the cows ate it.
1370pwr in ne
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if it will be juicy then i wouldn't try to combine it.It won't shell off the cob.Probably best to let the deer,pheasants and coons enjoy it for the winter.Next year if your going to plant corn, try a variety that is 108 or 110 day maturity and try to plant it before the 10th of may.wait and see what your 2013 corn crop is like in the spring of 2014. Who knows maybe the price per bushel will be much better by then.Hope
Welcome to the learning curve of farming.
Park the combine away, enjoy your winter, and go harvest it with the last few days when the ground is frozen this spring, or after the ground dries out enough you can drive through the corn this spring.
It may be pretty good and dried then.
right now, you could get it through the combine when it is frozen hard, but it is too wet to do anything at all with the corn, elevator won't want it if it is juicy, sounds like it never got past the milk line stage.
Your best bet would be to find a livestock feeder and chop it for silage when it isn't frozen, or chop it as smnapalage. Sounds like a real small patch, would really just be using it as green chop, even if it isn't green any more.
Or put a hot wire around the patch, and let cattle graze it off.
But if the combine is the only option, park it until spring, see what the corn looks like then.
Your corn never matured, it really isn't a full kernel yet, might dry down and be something by spring. Might not.
Right now, its nothing.
Paul
Park the combine away, enjoy your winter, and go harvest it with the last few days when the ground is frozen this spring, or after the ground dries out enough you can drive through the corn this spring.
It may be pretty good and dried then.
right now, you could get it through the combine when it is frozen hard, but it is too wet to do anything at all with the corn, elevator won't want it if it is juicy, sounds like it never got past the milk line stage.
Your best bet would be to find a livestock feeder and chop it for silage when it isn't frozen, or chop it as smnapalage. Sounds like a real small patch, would really just be using it as green chop, even if it isn't green any more.
Or put a hot wire around the patch, and let cattle graze it off.
But if the combine is the only option, park it until spring, see what the corn looks like then.
Your corn never matured, it really isn't a full kernel yet, might dry down and be something by spring. Might not.
Right now, its nothing.
Paul
Anonymous-0
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We tried combining some last week. I was on the road 82 day corn done planting last day of mayOperator sent one load in tested 32% 800 bushel after drying and shrinkage we were going to get paid for 375 bushels Told combine operator see him in the spring.
BigMarv1085
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If its fenced, put some hogs on it and hopefully you can recoup some of your money back.
T in NE
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if you let cattle graze it, have several bags of baking soda to mix in with their water to settle their stomachs after being overloaded with grain.
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