Crop report

john in la · Sep 21, 2019

Drove threw the delta area of north Louisiana today.

Did not see 1 stalk of corn. 100% harvested as fat as I can tell.

Lots of beans harvested but still have some to go.

Saw 1 field of cotton harvested and a couple ready for harvest but most not ready yet.

Next years sugar cane is planted and they are harvesting this years crop. Maybe they might get done by Christmas if the weather corporates.

They should start planting winter grass for cattle grazing in the next week or so.

Saw a lot of sugar cane fields that use to be corn or beans. Guess some are switching over to sugar because of the fixed price. Problem is it is a quota crop so you need to buy quota to be able to grow it.

Richard G. · Sep 22, 2019

John, how do those farmers cope with the sugarcane aphid in your area.
It is one of the reasons I quit growing syrup sorghum here in SC.
They can wipe out a crop in a short time.
Richard in NW SC

IaGary · Sep 22, 2019

Drove 50 miles to the Northwest yesterday. I saw one feild of beans cut just west of Cedar Rapids Ia. Several west and north of there that will be ready in a few days. No corn harvested for grain but a few fields of corn were chopped for silage. Corn is 3 or 4 weeks away for grain harvest here.

Right around here (south of CR 15 miles) a little silage is cut but beans and grain corn are a ways off yet.

john in la · Sep 22, 2019

Richard That is a subject I am not educated on enough to give a good answer.
In fact I thought that was more of a problem with grain sorghum than sugarcane.

Alvin 41 · Sep 22, 2019

How often is sugar cane replanted and do you still burn off leaves before harvest ? Row width?

john in la · Sep 23, 2019

One row per tractor width so about five feet.

They get three cutting from one plant. It takes the
plant just over a year to produce a crop so they
plant the field once every four years. They use
plants from another field for seed stock so they
never need to buy seed.

The new harvesters works the field green. Much like
corn is harvested. Then they burn off the residual
dead leaves laying on the ground.

Texasmark1 · Sep 24, 2019

Thanks John. I worry about you guys and gals doing what you need to do with all the rain that has gone your way the last couple of years.

K Effective · Sep 24, 2019

The neighbors started harvesting Niagara grapes (white juice grapes) yesterday, it looks like Concords (purple) will be a couple weeks off. This year they will switch to Concord and harvest all of them, then go back and finish the Niagaras.

The first morning of harvest, they have experienced mechanical trouble with two of three harvester units, and are being limited to twelve semi loads delivered to the processing plant per day.

This photo is from a couple of years ago, after they finished our place.

This is looking into the machine as it would be coming to you, the loops in the middle oscillate on vertical shafts to shake the grapes off the vines, when're they fall to the angled area beneath, and roll into a series of conveyor belts taking them to a chute down into a bulk box on a trailer in the next row over.

The chase tractors haul two boxes at a time back to the loader who fills the trucks, 22 boxes at just over a ton each.

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