Harvest progress in you area

I have never seen a fall like this, and I have been farming a long time. Seems like every day it is cloudy and cool, I believe we have had only a few days of normal temps. We have gotten over 7 inches of rain this month. Half the soybeans are in the field yet, Have never combined any beans under 13.5%, we got a few acres out yesterday (17%) before a light rain stopped us. 90% of the corn is in the field yet, moisture around 28-30%. We don't grow sugar beets but there is some out in the field yet.
In a normal year all the beans and beets would be done and half the corn would be left and that would be down to 20%.
This is west central Minnesota, Is any body else in the same boat?
Brian(MN)

Ohio is way behind too, just from driving around the area I'd say only half the soybeans are harvested and very little corn.

Just south and a little west of here, I've seen quite a bit of the corn and beans done. Most is from one BTO who plants early and fast. His corn was starting to dry down at the end of August. From here north and east, not much at all out of the fields yet. Some silage corn cut, and a few of the early corn fields that got planted before the spring monsoons started are done. Most everything else is still green. I heard one local who did get some corn out say his was above 30% and was caking to the sides of the grain tank in his combine. The rain stopped yesterday morning and is clear now, but the forecast is for more rain every day this coming week. We have water standing in places I've never seen it stand. If the rain quit now it would be a month before we were back to normal. I had an old batch dryer of dads that I've been trying to sell for the last 10 years. I ran an add locally and the phone is still ringing a month later. It sold on day one.

Forgot to mention, Central Kentucky.

As I understand it, 2 of the 1/2 million dollar McMansions that were built in the middle of the old Hickory tree field and were in foreclosure, have been sold for pennies on the dollar. does that qualify as harvest? Albeit a bitter one.

We are about three weeks be hind on filling the bunker with silage corn and we still have around 14 acres left on the one farm and all at the neighbors yet . since i could not find a combine in our price range we had a neighbour come over and run the beans all of the massive 28 acres worth and they are done . We have 30 acres of corn to pick and want to get in 12-18 acres of barley and that is not looking good at this time .We had four days last week that we could be in the fields and i was running between three farms tryen to keep stuff up and running . yesterday i spent the day between two farms trying to get things ready to go when the sun came back out and got run off by a down pour . So today the sun is out and i am about ready to go and finish up and maybe this afternoon we may try and run .

We have had over 8 inches of rain in the last 2 weeks and more in the forecast for this week. Everything is already behind with the late planting this spring. Maybe a good year to plant rice instead of wheat.

About 1/2 - 3/4 of the beans are out. Have only seen 2 fields of corn partially started. It has rained for the last 2 days.

Advertised a dryer 8oo batch or continuous in this form. CHEAP and no takers. Northern, Ill. 815 222 5231.

About the same thing in East Central MN.

Farmer I've been helping has combined enough to fill the tandem truck 3x, it's 35 cu. yds. struck (water level) not sure how that converts to bushels. He's got roughly 200 acres of his own, and I think he may have some to do for a nearby dairy operation, as they don't chop all their corn, most but not all.

6620 JD with a 6 row corn head, oversize tires,( have to use care, concern is about the axles from what I heard ) and it's been converted to rear axle drive from a 7000 series, in short they've put a lot of money into this one. It is set up to get through those wet spots, the ruts I fixed from it last year while planting were unreal, I like how it's set up now.

I'm busy re-building one of our barns, partial collapse, old but still worth fixing, so I may not get too involved with their harvest, but his son sure is a worker, all after a regular job and weekends, can't get done soon enough for him, sure makes for some long tiring days. If involved, I would be running the gravity wagon and or trucking the grain 35 miles south, which seems to be the thing that takes the most time, so that combine can keep working, only other issue is breakdowns on the combine, thought it seems they have done well with maintenance and repairs, been well greased since we did the oats.

It looks like a decent yield considering the weather we had, but the moisture is still up, not sure what the numbers are, he's started where it is dry enough, could be awhile before it's all done.

Same thing in so. central Mn.

Yup. I got 10% of the corn harvested, no beans.

Now I'm hearing bad stories of corn going bad in bins, way too wet & people trying to push it, caking up/ sealing up in drying bins.

Also of corn molding on the stalk.

Processors & feed grinders are about out of corn, using it as fast as it comes in. Tho now it is coming in, we all realize it ain't gonna dry down past 30% this year any more.

This is going to be one for the record books.

--->Paul

The big boys with the means to dry beans are for the most part done with thier beans. Smaller operators are still waiting and hoping. No one going on corn yet, I plan on hitting it this week if it dry"s up a little, I want to get my contracts filled so I know how much above that I will have. Have one feild of real low test weight, that"ll be feed for my feeders. Every other bushel I have will be hauled to GNP as soon as I can get it off the feild, I think when the harvest actually starts rolling the price will plummet.

Harvest progress is an oxymoron, or swearing. Corn is over 30% moisture, none out, beans are 16-19 plus, maybe ten percent cut. Same rain here- Meeker County. Atwater ethanol plant jacked up the corn price nicely, trying to find enough, hopefully yesterday"s fire was not too serious- although 9 fire departments responded. Luckily, they had a practice drill just a few weeks ago. Fire was from a burst line, not in a bin.

What harvest? We barely have the combine shined up

My neighbors put about 8000 bu in a 16000 bu bin just north of my house and now it smells like sileage. They had to get some corn out of the field so they could spread manure but the last of it was 30% and only one of the two fans on the bin works. This rainy, drizzly weather hasn't helped them out.

The 4000 bushels of 18% beans I put in the 20000 bushel corn bin are about 16% now but I've only had a chance to run the fan 2 1/2 days out of the last week. I'm beginning to think I'd better get my name in to have a second fan put on the bin before I do corn. $$$$$. Jim

About the same here in central NY. Although we fortunately haven't had those copious amounts of rain. It's typically a cooler/ wetter climate here anyhow because we're under the prevailing winds coming across the Great lakes. Then if that fails, we can get moisture coming up off the east coast!

Beans are miserable to dry with heat- especially in a bin, vs batch dryer. Here, folks are running the bin drying fan, burner off, but running a knipco in front of the fan- either LP or kerosene- (diesel stinks up the beans, and buys refuse). Field beans are 16-21 %. Rainy every other day, high humidity, knipco puts a bit of heat in the system. Renter bought an LP knipco, about 150,000btu for his bin.

Same in NWMO. Too wet to do anything but look at it and sigh.