Re: Grain left in the field

Posted by JD Seller on October 29, 2016 at 19:17:18 from (208.126.198.123):

In Reply to: Grain left in the field posted by cole in mo. on October 29, 2016 at 17:12:10:

There is always some grain left after a combine runs. This year with the abundant moisture anything left sprouted and is growing. There has been some hybrids in corn and some verities in soybeans that have lead to header loses. We have one number of soybeans that podded right to the ground. The sickle running an inch off the ground was missing 3-4 bushels per acre including the pods cut in pieces with the sickle. That field looks like it was seeded down. The beans still yielded over 70 BPA but make the field look terrible. One corn hybrid doubled eared 60-70% of the plants. The second ear has grain but has a cob that is smaller than the stalks. So even with the deck plates set in, as tight as you can and still have the stalk feed through, you shell the small second ear through the snapping rolls. This hybrid had a final stand over over 32,000 plants per acre. It yielded over 200 BPA. The weather conditions made it shot a second ear and that makes the header losses terrible.

Talk to the fellows that are having antique harvest days. These new hybrids of corn are much harder to harvest than the ones raised 30-50 years ago. The greener stem soybeans are hard to harvest too. IF you would put many of the old combines and pickers in these hybrids yielding over 200 BPA, the old machines would struggle to even harvest them let alone do a good job. The green stemmed soybeans will PLUG the older machines just like weeds did years ago.

So there MAYBE some operators that are not doing a good job but the majority are not that way. In general they are harvesting more, faster, in tougher conditions than combines have ever done.

I well remember the old combines not leaving much out the back. They left a heck of a lot at the header. I also remember guys harvesting at 1-2 MPH too with small grain headers. 10-15 acres a day being a good day.

So take that Gleaner "E" or John Deere 45 combine and go to the field right next to one of the newer machines a see how it goes. I think you will be surprised that the newer machines are doing a better job than they are being given credit for.

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