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200Tom1 
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Location: Iowa
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 Topic: Better get the Combines Greased up
Posted: 01 Sep 2023 at 8:25pm |
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I was driving around delivering today. I noticed the beans and corn are starting to turn color. Where the heck did the summer fly to? It seems like you folks were just planting last week. Went to the cemetery to leave a few flowers, saw several combines outta the sheds today. It's a few weeks early though.
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plummerscarin
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Joined: 22 Jun 2015
Location: ia
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Posted: 01 Sep 2023 at 11:47pm |
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Things are turning. Will be replacing all the sickle sections on the header this weekend. Need to order a raddle chain as well
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DMiller
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Location: Hermann, Mo
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Posted: 02 Sep 2023 at 5:43am |
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Some areas Corn and beans already Gone, production yields low enough they made Silage of the crop volumes here. MO is noted as Corn predicted crop yield down 10-14%, beans around 20%.
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jaybmiller
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Location: Greensville,Ont
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Posted: 02 Sep 2023 at 6:19am |
12 acre patch just north of me, the farmer 'killed off' the potatoe tops.... if I SEE him harvest, I can get a few for winter from the 'leftovers,too small,too big' that night.Always a gamble as to when he plows though,sometimes a week late, sometime the same day !
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dr p
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Posted: 02 Sep 2023 at 6:33am |
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Crop report says dryland corn harvest in kansas is nearly done. Yields about 70 bushels.
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Lars(wi)
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Posted: 02 Sep 2023 at 6:41am |
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Vegetable garden here is a total loss. Pole, and bush beans got fried first, by the heat. Peppers were just starting to send blossoms when the heat arrived, and the plants dropped the flowers, nothing put green plant all summer no matter how much water and fertilizer I applied. Gonna give 2nd season tomato plants a whirl. This time in containers, so can move if needed into a bit of shade.
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DMiller
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Posted: 02 Sep 2023 at 7:05am |
 Lars(wi) wrote:
Vegetable garden here is a total loss. Pole, and bush beans got fried first, by the heat. Peppers were just starting to send blossoms when the heat arrived, and the plants dropped the flowers, nothing put green plant all summer no matter how much water and fertilizer I applied. Gonna give 2nd season tomato plants a whirl. This time in containers, so can move if needed into a bit of shade. |
Ours did too Lars.
Tomato and Pepper plants were cooked in under two weeks even watering daily. Sweet Corn only got to 18-20" tassled then dried down, what a waste of planting. Managed a few strawberries, a few yet again thornless blackberries, everything else just cooked to death.
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AC7060IL
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Posted: 03 Sep 2023 at 8:29pm |
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Hear say today that some local field corn was just harvested & yielded in the 225 bu/acre range?
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shameless dude
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Posted: 03 Sep 2023 at 11:20pm |
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dude near me walked out into his corn field, said there are small cobs on the stalks, but no kernels on the cobs, said it was that way every place he entered his fields, figgers he lost around 600 acres that he has checked on so far! that's a bummer! I have filled out ers, but they are smaller. still trying to find a way to get in and out of my combine,
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plummerscarin
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Posted: 04 Sep 2023 at 6:36am |
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Would a regular ladder cut to size help? Just throwing out ideas here
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Pat the Plumber CIL
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Posted: 04 Sep 2023 at 8:35am |
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Went over to the hunting cabin by Pittsfield, Il. to repair a hunting stand yesterday. Saw one corn field taken out for silage. Seen another field in the Illinois River bottom had been taken out ,no silage, plenty of trash laying on the ground. My brother claims some of these ethanol plants contract 30 to 33 percent corn . Takes less water to produce ethanol, but that wet corn is hard on equipment. Weighs more but they pay less. Basically just a reason to start sooner. Around here when 1 starts they all feel obligated to get going.
Edited by Pat the Plumber CIL - 04 Sep 2023 at 8:36am
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DMiller
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Posted: 05 Sep 2023 at 10:41am |
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Friend and ex coworker of years ago was from Pittsfield, Bingham last name.
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shameless dude
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Posted: 06 Sep 2023 at 6:46pm |
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I used a step ladder ti get into the big 4x4 tractor this last spring, guess i'll try that for the combine too.
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festus51
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Posted: 06 Sep 2023 at 9:50pm |
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Corn here in east central Ks been shelling for a week bushels are low Many beans have been bled up for hay some beef guys are baling cornstalks for hay. Hay crop has been short also.
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