Corn

paul · Sep 28, 2021

Took out a little corn today.

16.5% moisture, 57 test weight. Yeld appears on the low but close to side of average in this low peat type field. Some of my higher ground will be more dismal.

Its amazing to get 16% moisture out of the field here, unheard of in September!

Paul

centash · Sep 29, 2021

Up north here, 25 percent at harvest is typical. Some years I've harvested corn in the low 30s in December just to get it off the field. Drying costs ran over 200 dollars per acre. Only remember once putting corn straight into an aerated bin at 18 percent.

Ben

rrlund · Sep 29, 2021

I opened up a field Monday. Made a round around the outside and punched two holes up the middle. I didn't check the moisture, ran it through the feed grinder and it unloaded alright. Still wetter than I want to crib though I think. Yield looks like it's gonna be unreal. I heaped that Kilbros 350 box in just those two rounds with a three row head.

paul · Sep 29, 2021

Im in minnesota, I recall a lot of years it was nice to be under 25% corn. And that wold be mid October....

The coop elevators around here have not kept up with drying space. We can get long lines. This summer a feed mill and a coop both had dust explosions the same day. One only affected one bin and the drier leg, but they cant get parts to connect the drier. The other blew up all the legs and routing augers neither will be drying corn this fall, 5 miles and 20 miles away.

Thank goodness we have an early and dry crop.

Paul

glennster · Oct 1, 2021

our area got hit hard with tar spot. lot of downed corn. yields were way low too, we did 185 bu acre. aerial spraying did nothing for the tar spot this year. . moisture was averaging 15 to 16 percent.

tractorboy888 · Oct 10, 2021

Nice! I haven't started yet. Still seems pretty wet here in Ontario. I'm only growing corn in the 75-80 day range and still wetter than yours!

Have you got all your beans off? Mine ran 45 bushel got them off 15% moisture.
Nick121 from agtalk if you recall me.

centash · Oct 10, 2021

Finished beans and wheat last week, posted the plot results on this site. Tried a bit of 2800 heat unit corn Friday, still testing 29 percent. Let it dry down a bit but the field has more than average breakage due to the recent high winds. Running over 200 bushels per acre. Just north of Goderich, where are you?

Ben

paul · Oct 10, 2021

I have not started beans. They were very uneven and tough here. When things looked better then it got rainy and fog and heavy dew, so I just continued with corn.

Then a chain derailed and pulled a bracket loose I had to fabricate, and a round after fixing that oil came spraying out a hose.

See how Monday goes.....

Paul

tractorboy888 · Oct 11, 2021

I farm a small acreage in Grey county towards Flesherton. Live down by Guelph.
That's not a bad yield at all! hope it dries down to 25% or less for you Drying is a killer when it's near 30

centash · Oct 11, 2021

Great looking crops in that area this year. Hiking the Beaver Valley today.

Ben

tractorboy888 · Oct 12, 2021

Yes good weather. And made it through with no early frost so corn should dry down better. 2019 was real fun with wet corn, left it out overwinter

paul · Oct 27, 2021

Beans are surprising me at 50 bu or so. Have 2-3 days left, but an all day soaker today, will be a while.

Again I was in the better ground on the beans, I have a 17 acre field the dicamba drift got, that looks terrible. With the drift would have at least killed the weeds in the field.....

Paul

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