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Dave from MN

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Yields were some what embarrassing. 12 acres, maybe a bit less. I filled one gravity box, and one small barge box for feed grain. I am guessing 300-350 bushels. Pretty low. Now I will have to se what the test weight is tommorow, if too light I will save for feed. I do have 4 steers and 6 growing beef calves to feed, so maybe I can mix with distillers grains if the elevator wont take them. Oh well, the rye was awesome, the corn looks good, beans are above average. That oat straw is sure gonna be nice, chopped up real good.
 
Dave I have found that I cannot have good oats and good corn in the same year. Weather that is good for oats is not so good for corn and visa versa.

This may mean that the corn will do better.

Gary
 
(quoted from post at 17:44:34 08/06/08) Yields were some what embarrassing. 12 acres, maybe a bit less. I filled one gravity box, and one small barge box for feed grain. I am guessing 300-350 bushels. Pretty low. Now I will have to se what the test weight is tommorow, if too light I will save for feed. I do have 4 steers and 6 growing beef calves to feed, so maybe I can mix with distillers grains if the elevator wont take them. Oh well, the rye was awesome, the corn looks good, beans are above average. That oat straw is sure gonna be nice, chopped up real good.
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Hey Dave you did better than me the first year. Talk about weeds and trash i had 2 acres i ended up spraying with roundup by hand 2 acres. didn't have a sprayer yet . got about 30 bushels. Living and learning that's what life is about.

Take Care

Farmer
 
I'm sure hoping for that. I took a walk and found many stalks with 3 full cobs filling, most had 2 big ones. Where I spread manure and where I didnt are like two different feilds.
 
Wish we could say that. I just tried cutting some oats tonight to let it dry down some, but we just got a light shower and the field I was trying is so badly lodged it just plugs up. Gotta let the rain dry and I might be able to cut it tomorrow. Ogtherwise I'll knock down the other field first.

We were gonna knock down the swamp rigt away too, but the other haybine we use for that needs some attention so that'll have to wait for a while.

Gotta swap out the currnet sickle for the sharp/fixed one in the shop, I gotta adjust the hold down clips, and I gotta swap the slip plates on the end of the reel so it doesn't slip so bad anymore... I'd weld it but we've got a parts machine and I'm afraid of what would go wrong if I did weld it.

Ain't farming fun????

BTW- our oats looks pretty decent, but the feild of corn right next to the road looks really rough. Funny thing is, that feild was new seedto make sure it looked good , and just about everything else was old seed because we had a lot left over. Most of the other corn looks pretty good yet, so here's hoping...

Donovan from Wisconsin
 
I finished combining my neighbors oats today. Yields were different on every field and so was test weight. His ran from 52 to 70 bushel with 30 TW. I finished mine saturday. One field went 105 bu but only 28 TW. The other field went 86 bu at 34 tw. It was the same oat variety planted the same day on similar soils. At least I gottum sold before the price totally tanked.
 
I assume we are talking field corn, not sweet corn.

For max yield, you should only get one ear per stalk. If you are getting 2-3 ears, you should think about upping your plant population. Costs more seed, but - you get better yield per acre.

The down side is if you get a real dry year - in your area - the corn will not get enough water if the population is too high.

--->Paul
 
I hear ya. I put in the poulation based on neighbors recommendation. The previous renter wont tell me what he put in for population on my land. I am sure it was closer to 28,000 or more, always a good crop if we recieved the moisture. Next year will b e different, i will increase population, and hope for moisture.
 
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