Corn harvest

We have a guy here in trumansburg who never harvests his corn until spring. He no tills everything. Says he doesn't have a lot of loss gets a higher price in spring and no ruts to screw with. I guess to each his own (been in business a long time). Only thing that bugs me is he has a lot of corn by route 96 and the deer sit in thoae field, then run across the road.

Tom, I'm surprised they're just finishing. Your neighbors were off to a good start when I saw you in October. They have their reasons I guess. Break downs can be a butt kicker.
My uncle used to leave corn stand all winter. Evens beans. Claimed it saved on drying costs. However, the number of ears the accountant and I picked up off the ground to feed his cows doesn't look to me like was a good idea. The last year he did that, I picked in the spring but quit cuz most of it was on the ground and didn't justify running the combine.

plummerscarin wrote: Tom, I'm surprised they're just finishing. Your neighbors were off to a good start when I saw you in October. They have their reasons I guess. Break downs can be a butt kicker. My uncle used to leave corn stand all winter. Evens beans. Claimed it saved on drying costs. However, the number of ears the accountant and I picked up off the ground to feed his cows doesn't look to me like was a good idea. The last year he did that, I picked in the spring but quit cuz most of it was on the ground and didn't justify running the combine.

We had neighbor years, and years ago that some years would finish corn harvest till well into winter, sometimes not until spring. Some years it was because all their on farm storage was full, or an extremely wet autumn. We got caught a time or two over the years. The neighbor always planted corn varieties that had ‘ear retention’, and ‘standability’ as the prominent characteristics.