Oat Harvest

rusty6 · Sep 22, 2020

Been busy with harvest and no time to edit videos. Until this evening. Little rain shower last night made the wheat tough. I did combine a load of 18% wheat just to finish a field but it should be ok. This video shows combining my oat field last week. They came in dry at 11.5 and weigh 44 pounds per bushel.

Oats harvest

Bruce from Can. · Sep 22, 2020

Boy that looked great !

paul · Sep 22, 2020

Wow, 44# oats. We can only dream of that here. Mine was 29# this year, that was an improvement over the past few years. I got maybe 80-90 bu an acre, pretty good volume this year, but we struggle to get test weight here.

Nice video.

Paul

casecollectorsc · Sep 22, 2020

I've never had 44# oats. Was happy to have 37# this year. Had Hayden oats here...what do you plant?

BillinCentralMO · Sep 22, 2020

I really liked that. Oats are uncommon here. Did you get a good yield ?

rusty6 · Sep 22, 2020

(quoted from post at 06:37:58 09/22/20) I really liked that. Oats are uncommon here. Did you get a good yield ?

Not sure what others call a good yield but mine are usually lower than the area average since I am more low input on my crops. I was well satisfied with these. No name on the variety. I bought the seed last year from a grower. Listed at "common oat". Then I had some of the seed from that crop cleaned to plant this year.

rusty6 · Sep 22, 2020

There may be some difference in our bushel weights as I think ours use the Avery conversion scale instead of the Winchester.
Grain test weight

caterpillar guy · Sep 22, 2020

Looks like a nice load of oats. But why raise them if they are only 32 pound per bushel and they dock you for not having at least 36 pound oats. Then only pay about a buck a bushel for them. I can't afford to raise them at those demands. I do like to plant them as an alternative to wheat and for the feed and straw.

JMOR · Sep 22, 2020

(quoted from post at 10:20:05 09/22/20) Looks like a nice load of oats. But why raise them if they are only 32 pound per bushel and they dock you for not having at least 36 pound oats. Then only pay about a buck a bushel for them. I can't afford to raise them at those demands. I do like to plant them as an alternative to wheat and for the feed and straw.

n Texas, we raised oats for winter grazing, then harvest in summer for grain to feed the following winter.

David from Kansas · Sep 22, 2020

Most oats grown around here are put up for hay. In a good year they yield lots of bales. Mostly cattle men that grow them.

rusty6 · Sep 22, 2020

(quoted from post at 07:20:05 09/22/20) Looks like a nice load of oats. But why raise them if they are only 32 pound per bushel and they dock you for not having at least 36 pound oats. Then only pay about a buck a bushel for them. I can't afford to raise them at those demands. I do like to plant them as an alternative to wheat and for the feed and straw.

I've never seen 32 pound bushel oats. These are 44 pounds per bushel. Seed is cheap and when the price goes up over $3 I'm happy. I need to grow them for cattle feed and will sell the extra I don't need.

55 50 Ron · Sep 22, 2020

I thought it neat that the evening sun reflected on your combine windshield for a short part of the video. You were moving east and the long shadow of the combine was prominent out in front of you. Very neat. Thanks

paul · Sep 22, 2020

Oats is a random hobby crop around here any more. Very few small grains any more. Back in the 60s and 70s was maybe 1/4 of the land in oats or wheat Little barley, was even flax back in the 50s.

But we get too much rain and the summers are too messed up for good small grains, our wet clay soils favor corn, corn, and more corn with some soybeans. As well the independent livestock guy turned into either contract growing or super large scale and doesn’t mix their own feed any more, don’t need the patch of oats these days.

I grow a few bu, feed it to my cattle and make some small sales to specialty neighbors, the straw is worth more than the grain these days.

A few folk on lighter soil than me are trying to make some wheat work out again, to help rotate and room for manure, cover crops, etc. but it’s tough, you can’t make yield and protein value in this climate they are opposite each other, can only get one.

Paul

BillinCentralMO · Sep 22, 2020

Do you feed it ? Or sell it all ? We are happy to see the corn price rising some at least.

Bill VA · Sep 22, 2020

Great video!!!

rusty6 · Sep 23, 2020

(quoted from post at 16:01:45 09/22/20) Do you feed it ? Or sell it all ? We are happy to see the corn price rising some at least.

I feed some but theres no way my little hobby herd can eat 40 acres worth of oats a year. So I sell a semi load once in a while when the price looks good or I need the space.
Rain showers this morning means a day off from combining that I didn't really want. Just nicely got back rolling yesterday after the last showers.

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