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centash

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Corn harvest 2019.....one which we would rather forget. Late getting planted, cold wet spring and hot dry summer. Once we did get some rain, some corn plants restarted resulting in very high moisture, but we did pick up a bit more yield on there plants. Moisture levels on corn I harvested ranged from 22 percent t to a whopping 34.6 percent, with over half coming off as grade 3 corn. Most guys are in the same boat, a few have stopped harvest to hopefully let the corn dry down a bit more. The wet corn is even starting to smell a bit like off silage and may soon mould in the field. Soft fields and snow that remains between the rows, soft kernels easily damaged in harvesting were a few of our challenges. On the bright side, the yield was not too bad....farm average will be close to 140 bushels per acre, with the top yield in the plot coming in at 180. No breakdowns and no injuries, we do have much to be thankful for.

Ben


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Good it went fairly well for you. Out west here a lot of canola swaths are still in the fields. Kind of complicates next years cropping plans.
 
Despite it all , its a good feeling to be done. Most of the corn in the Exeter area is still standing. We went to the cottage yesterday to check things (Between Bayfield and Goderich) and a few combines were going but 90% of the corn is still out
 
Everything that comes off of a farm is inspected, graded, classified for quality. Whether it is grain, meat, milk, etc. Payment is adjusted accordingly. Stsandard for corn is #2, with a certain moisture level, like 15%.
 
Foreign material like weed seed, dirt, cracked kernels, etc will get you a lower grade of corn at the scales etc. Most distillery's up here used to only take corn that graded out # 1 (for bourbon).There maybe be 4 grades of corn altogether with #1 & # 2 getting the going market price. High moisture gets a dockage in price also.
 
The first year I took corn to the elevator I like to tear out my hair trying to understand the slips. That was not a good year for drying in the field and I had moisture ranging about the same as listed here. There is a drying charge for anything over 15% but it rarely exceeds the losses to wildlife from leaving it set out in the field. Then you have test weight...mine was always good...and they give you grief if there is a lot of junk in the load. Mine was always pretty clean but there was a year that I picked in January and there was a fair amount of broken kernels. We have a window here to get it up there if not dry. Our elevator would not take it unless you had it dry come Spring. Anyone tells you that growing grain is easy...tell them to give me a call. Happy to sort that out for them. :)
 
Grade 2 corn has a bushel weight of 56 pounds . Grace 3 corn will have a lighter bushel weight, thus needing more volume to weigh a ton. Price for grade 3 corn is obviously less than grade 2, grade 4 is even lower, and sample grade is the lowest. Dockage has little to do with grade. The elevators can readily remove foreign material from the corn and this weight of foreign matter is deducted from your loads weight. Broken kernels are also considered dockage but most elevators can sell this product. This year was especially bad for broken kernels because of the late maturing high moisture corn. Case in point....we harvested the test plot today....it was planted first on the best part of the field, averaged 175 bushels per acre, moisture 23 percent and a very high test weight. These same varieties were placed into the rest of the field 2 or 3 weeks later in less the ideal no til conditions and struggled all summer. Just goes to show how important early planting and seed bed preparation can be.


By the way, that wet corn cost me 72 cents per bushel to dry....bye bye profit :^(
Ben
 
I just finished also. It was good corn,175 tange, but it was 19%. The first corn I ran in October was 190 at 15%. Ran alot of 50 bushel and below too. Glad this year is over!Dontvtell the YT dot but I broke 100,000 lbs on one load!
 
Glad you got 'er done, Centash.

I think it's been a miserable farming year in many widespread areas.
 
Looks like quite a few finished today. I finished up at 5:00 PM today. Had all soybeans. Had planned for all corn but made the switch to soybeans due to late planting. Finished planting on June 9th. They did quite well, all things considered. Looks like around 50 bpa but have to wait for my weight slips. Some came in at 72bpa and some came in around 30 but that's the way it always is due to a wide range of soil types.
 
Finished corn yesterday in the mud. Actually went up in moisture last few days. All 20%--25% with mold deduction on some varieties. Yield best ever over 215/. Soybeans done a month ago also very good at 70/. Wheat planted after may have sprouted but never came up under snow cover which is just melting. SWI
 
You made a good move by taking it out wet. On years like this we need to just close our eyes and go for it. It cost you .72 to dry plus a bunch of shrink but by having it harvested and in the bin you cannot lose any more yield. This time of year if it stands in the field it can snap off in the wind, drop ears, get snowed on, get snowed IN, rained on and anything else mother nature can throw at it. We just have to lick our wounds and trudge forward from here.
 
That shrink will happen if left in field to dry or dried in a dryer, same moisture to get rid of either way and that moisture you are getting rid of is the shrink. So only difference is cost of drying but no difference in yield.
 
Ben, good to hear you have finished.
I was out and about on Monday towards Perth, most beans are done but not much corn and the promised sunny weather never happened this week.

JimB
 
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