Deere combine just dusty!

big tee · Nov 8, 2021

That picture of that Deere I posted yesterday was not a fire--I don't know what it was combining but all that black was dust. I never took time to learn how to post videos but I wish someone would post the one of that Deere--It is on Face Book--Just type in Ray Tellin combine--it should come up--it will be worth it to share--THANKS---Tee

Majorman · Nov 8, 2021

Think it might have been something we call smuts. It is a kind of fungal infection usually on wheat. I have combined a crop with it and it collected all over me and the combine, turning us both black.

fixerupper · Nov 8, 2021

This fall here in Iowa the combines that ran in drouthy corn were partly black from the smut dust. We used to run into smut in wheat but smut resistance has been bred into wheat so it isnt much of a problem today. We did harvest wheat for one old spinster who never bought new seed, he just kept cleaning old seed and planting it. His wheat had lost its resistance to smut so our combines looked black from the dust when we left his fields. The elevator we hauled the wheat to put his wheat in a separate bin so the catfish bait smell from his wheat would not affect the condition of the rest of the wheat they stored. The only reason the elevator took his wheat was because he was a wealthy banker in town and had clout.

Deere combine just dusty!

big tee

Well-known Member

Majorman

Well-known Member

fixerupper

Well-known Member

Similar threads