Corn harvest
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Topic: Corn harvest
Posted By: 200Tom1
Subject: Corn harvest
Date Posted: 26 Dec 2024 at 7:46pm
| Looks like the last field of corn was combined yesterday here in my area. I don't know who farms the place. Sure didn't take them long to run it. Looked like a Deere of some sort with a 12 row head. |
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Posted By: dr p
Date Posted: 27 Dec 2024 at 7:05am
| 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. |
Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 27 Dec 2024 at 7:05am
| There’s still a lonely corn field I see on the commute about a half mile south of the road. No idea why it’s still standing most has been done for a very long time. Earliest, driest corn harvest I’ve ever seen in this area. Yield wasn’t great because the rain shut off in August and after. |
Posted By: plummerscarin
Date Posted: 27 Dec 2024 at 8:30am
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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. |
Posted By: IBWD MIke
Date Posted: 28 Dec 2024 at 6:11am
| There is still some standing just North of me. Not unusual for that guy to combine in March or April though. Most of us were done by the middle of October this year. Last load I took to town was 13.8%, think that was 110 day corn. |
Posted By: Lars(wi)
Date Posted: 28 Dec 2024 at 7:49am
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. ------------- I tried to follow the science, but it was not there. I then followed the money, and that’s where I found the science. |
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