Cornfield is turning green

Neighbor's corn field is turning green.

I visioned SV's cows

going out for lunch. No fences, so SV would
have to use his horse to keep cows off the road.

That looks like a lot of volunteer corn to me.

That is actually not much corn that came out the back of the combine.
I have seen fields that look solid green after harvest.

Did that come out the back or is that header loss?

Some places you can see darker stripes. Guessing a little came out the back. Some came from header.

I bet cows would love to dine out.

Some of that corn could have been on the ground before the combine rolled through. A few miles away from me from there is some land that is farmed by several brothers. They are known to be the best operators in the county and are extremely fussy about how they run their machinery. Maybe a kernal or two comes out the back of their combines but a person has to look good and hard to find those kernals. There is no such thing as zero loss anyway.

They harvested what looks like 200 acres of corn a month ago because the stalks were breaking over and they worked the ground right behind the combine. Now that ground is solid green with volunteer corn. I know that volunteer corn didn't come from combine loss. Their normal practice is to work the ground right after the combine rolls but this year they probably are trying to germinate as much of that lost corn as they can so it won't be a problem next year.

Don't care how ya cut it that is a lot , 3-5 seeds in a square foot they call good . I know that my little OLD Massey 300 did a fine job and you had to look real hard to find 3-4 kernels in a sq .ft. header loss depending on dryness ran 2-3 . I had less loss then the guy with the 6600 Deere . And this came from the people that he use to combine for and the grain samples were far better off the Massey then the Deere . I ended up with all his custom work when his combine went down due to a Error on his part when he was rushing and stuck the wrong fuel hose in the tank and filled it with gas and not diesel . It started off with just going to a neighbors place and run 84 acres and the word went out that i was doing a great job . I finished that one and was cleaning the combine when another guy asked if i would do his that was 102 acres then 74 then 90 and it snow balled . Doing two rows at a time ya get lots of seat time and learn a lot about how to make the adjustments . Some guys really don't take a few stops and a few min.s they got to go and rely on the fancy sensors and computer . They run with the new fangled chopping heads down almost on the ground Feeding in more plant matter so they can chop the stalk shorter . Around here we had to worry about ROCKS and i still found one , a wedge shaped setting behind a stalk standing a foot and a half tall . Crop conditions can change and setting have to change to keep loss down .

We had good luck with the Masseys we had too but we can get parts for our Deeres!!!---Tee

Agco ran field trials on their new gleaner S-9 series combines a couple years ago. They ran the machine over 4480 acres and measured harvest losses. I believe they measured header loss, rotor loss, and sieve losses. They came up with .8 bu/acre harvest loss from all sources. These were measured losses not combine readouts on the dash. A father,son on you tube (brian farming videos, something like that) started running a brand new S-9 gleaner 12 row . He measure his corn losses a couple days ago ,said he was getting .33 bushel/acre rotor loss and about .33 bushel/acre on sieve loss, no header loss . This is a new machine and they are still learning the settings and tweaking the machine as they go. The older operator said this machine produced the cleanest grain sample he had ever seen in his lifetime.

Finally found a good use for the masseys . They make an alright grain cart .
The job a combine does or doesnt do has more to do with the dope operating it than the machine

Not much green left here been to cold wonder if we are going into an ice age ? Hey you cant deny the facts right ? Oh wait not those facts only the ones you want us to believe are facts : when I raked my last field of hay August 7th there was ice on the hay . This was the first piece of hay I cut July 16 this was photo was august 7th

and in this weird weather year, too wet, then dry, then hot no rain, then drier, and then cooler and
windy, i saw our DK corn have some of the best ears on it, to then have the ears all folded over
due to the extreme heat. Father-in-law runs a JD 95, with 443 head, and had to run almost on the ground
to keep from butt shelling the corn off the bottom of ears since they were hanging so low.
was 16.2 moisture. three weeks ago, now the late planted corn, June 19, won't dry down. So foggy this
morning, I couldn't see the deer if I was to hit him with the pickup! A lot of this green you see is
these big machines is cornhead shelling, and not running full or too full capacity too! From the west
central Mo fields. GG

I remember the impending Ice age.
I remember the hole in the ozone.
Many don't believe Uncle Sam.
Better look closer to the News Media spreading down right lies.
Latest whopper, we won't get our SS checks if there is a shutdown.

(quoted from post at 11:45:04 10/07/21) Finally found a good use for the masseys . They make an alright grain cart .
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I have worked in combine engineering. Not all combines are the same.

For instance, the mf 750 has a grain pan vs augers on the Deere. The grain pan allows stratification before grain reaches the shoe, plus full length walker return pan on the massey makes the shoe work better.
The mf also has separates front and rear sections on the sieve, that is an engineering difference. In fact, as an engineer, i have no clue what jd engineers could have tought while creating a lh and rh adjustment sieves and chaffer!!
The massey has been optimused for grain and Deere has been designed in corn country.
Now, you may adjust for difference in design by adjusting troughput, but at equal troughput, the mf is going to gave a better sample in grain.

Now i agree that parts ate easier to get on the Deere and it could ve that more people still know how to service them.

Typical engineer knows a lot about paper not much else . I
can save just as much grain with my combine as any one can
and its not hard and its not magic and I didnt have to be an
engineer to do it

No matter what color the combine there is always some loss when doing corn..Some of it is at the corn head..That field doesnt look bad compared to some that I see..

Theres always the old fashioned way.dad said he picked a load shoveled it off ate lunch and loaded another scooped it off,fed mules ate supper and went to bed

People studying the sun say we are in the early stages of an ice age. They found some magnetic patterns in the sun that drive the 11 year solar cycles. They predicted the last 3 cycles with over 95% accuracy.

Been unusually warm here, and moist. See a lot of fields greening up after harvest. Southern Minnesota. Would have been a rare year to make cover crops work.

Paul

A properly set combine will not lose corn out the back or very little ..most loss comes from the corn head from small incomplete ears.

I am an agricultural engineer myself and have been designing farm equipment for a long time. Does your comment mean I should stop responding to requests from farmer friends asking for my advice on settings and adjustments for the type of machine I've designed? Since I'm the engineer there's no way I should know anything about actually operating the machine in the field, is there?

We are to cold when picking corn, for corn to get growing in the fall afterwards like that. If there was a stom that went through during the late summer they could get that much down corn to grow like that. Otherwise a lot of missed corn be it head or sieve.