In the house today!

Animal

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And I am glad...its been a long harvest on me this year, and I am still not done. This cold weather is what I need to kill the grass in my beans. Is every one else done with their harvest?
 
I've picked one round in the corn. Took a bearing out in the husking bed. Got it all back together this morning,now the rain and cold front are here. If it freezes up good and doesn't snow,I'm gonna give it h3ll. Hope I'm done by spring.
 
About 35. All alone is the worst part of it. I'm gonna pick the stuff farther from home first. The days ain't getting any longer. I'd rather finish up close to home.
 
We used to have a guy here in the neighborhood who only took one corn crop every two years. He'd grow it one summer,and spend the next summer picking it.
 
Been pretty much done for a month. I am harvesting black walnuts if you consider that a harvest.
 
Finished crops Thursday, tillage Saturday. Wind chill been single digits the past two days, no warming in sight. Coating of ice here that won't leave. Up here it gets this cold this long, it might not pull out of deep freeze until March or April....

I got a lot of cleanup stuff, too cold to run the diesels, but happy I'm done with the heavy lifting.

Paul
 
We had a BTO here who planted one Spring and harvested some the next Spring. Usual maturity range here is 90-102 day corn, but we figured he planted that 400 day stuff. He filed BK and his Dad took over contracts.
 
Got my own corn done last Wednesday. I do 225 acres custom for another guy. These short cold days cut down on acres per day.

About 70 acres left. Hope to finish by the end of this week.

Gary
 
Hell, Randy. An older friend (now gone) used to never pick his corn in the fall unless he needed some for feed. I don't know what hybrid it was, but it stood good through the winter. He would finally pick it in the spring, then plow right after it and plow down hog manure, plant into it around June or July 1st, and harvest it again the next spring....
 
Used to see that in Indiana 40 years ago. 50 head milk herds common, lot of guys still picking corn. Wire bins would get full so feed them out for a month and then pick some more. Our family generally left the picker on the 706 until March. We had 2 656 and a couple of antique tractors for pulling wagons and winter chores.
 

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