Combining beans

David G · Oct 17, 2020

Went and combined some beans tonight, they were really dry at 9%, but want to get done.

SVcummins · Oct 17, 2020

Are beans like peas? You wwnt them a little tough so they don’t all go out the back

Brendon-KS · Oct 18, 2020

Took a load in yesterday that tested 7.7 moisture. A month ago I was hauling corn to the elevator that was in the 11's straight out of the field. It's been so dry here in central Kansas lately that getting fall crops to dry down hasn't been a problem. Course our wheat isn't coming up either, though . . .

72supr · Oct 18, 2020

(quoted from post at 03:51:01 10/18/20) Took a load in yesterday that tested 7.7 moisture. A month ago I was hauling corn to the elevator that was in the 11's straight out of the field. It's been so dry here in central Kansas lately that getting fall crops to dry down hasn't been a problem. Course our wheat isn't coming up either, though . . .

ame thing here I do not remember corn coming out at 12 percent moisture ever.Very little if any wheat put in around here. Very dry.

paul · Oct 18, 2020

Beans like to pop open, header loss, when they are too dry. Not fun watching them bounce off the cab glass.

Then, they are good at 13%. If you combine them at 9%, you just lost 4% of your yield on water weight. Those 2 bu an acre ‘lost’ is 18-20 bucks an acre.

Paul

tomNE · Oct 18, 2020

this was the first year of using a draper head to cut beans; wow; what an improvement over a flex head with an auger! no beans bouncing off the W/S!

David G · Oct 18, 2020

Yes, 13% is ideal.

As stated, you lose $ do to water weight and they tend to crack when combining.

These were a Pioneer hydrid, loaded with pods, but very tiny pods on driest soil, yields were 30-65 so not too bad.

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