few pics from 2011 harvest

nickg · Sep 27, 2011

Started shellin corn few weeks ago. So far runnin about a 215/bu average with 19%moisture.Corn is startin to be down really bad after this last batch of rain we got this weekend. Combine is a John Deere 9870STS with 12 row head.

Anonymous-0 · Sep 27, 2011

Is that good bad or average yield for your area? thanks ken

nickg · Sep 27, 2011

Normal average around here is 175-200. Considering how dry we were here in the southern part of IN its a really good average this year. I dont think all my corn is gonna be this good. I have a couple fields Im hopin to at least get a 110 average.

gitrib · Sep 27, 2011

Can a old man add a little to this thread. When I got out of High school in Iowa my father bought a new single row picker. Could get about 10 acre a day and corn yield was 100 bu per acre. Pretty skimpy by todays standard but we got it done. Usually froze your highney off. Was really big time when we got a Heat Houser. Congratulation on a Great Crop.
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larry@stinescorner · Sep 27, 2011

hi gitrib , just curious, what kind of tractor was the picker on?

BANDITFARMER · Sep 27, 2011

I went from Cincinnati OH to Fairmont IN this past weekend up 74 to RT9 and only saw a handfull of fields cut or shelled. This realy suprised me. Normaly you guys have 1/3 of your crops out by this time of the year. Saw a few fields of beans that realy looked good but most were kinda rough lookin and alot of wind damaged corn. I think all of us have had a rough year this year. Glad to hear you are having good yeilds and the moisture is down as low as it is. Bandit

gitrib · Sep 27, 2011

It was a Oliver 60 with a Woods Bros. single row picker.
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gtractorfan · Sep 27, 2011

Great yield! Kind of hard to believe it's down to 19% with some green in the leaves.

bmiller36 · Sep 27, 2011

great yeilds but at todays prices why do we need a farm program . I also farm but dont think nthe taxpayers should kick in more thanks bob

fixerupper · Sep 27, 2011

What year was that? 100 bu sounds really good for the late 40's-early 50's. Dad said his first year farming, 1948, was really good and he had some 100 bu corn when the average was 85 or so. He thought he had this farming thing figured out until the next year brought him back to reality with 60 bu corn. Jim

chess · Sep 27, 2011

Dad had one of those Woods pickers an it sure did a clean job.Only problem corn ears would not slide in elevator very well on one side of Pa hills.Course dad always had us picking corn when it was too wet !

David G · Sep 27, 2011

I remember those days.

nickg · Sep 27, 2011

The best Ive done in a day with that combine is 97acres. Ideal conditions and not a very long wait at the elevator so the trucks could get back quick and all in one field. I never have run an open cab combine or an old picker but I think about the older farmers who never had cabs especially when its really dusty or cold out and appreciate the comforts of a cab.

nickg · Sep 27, 2011

So far its been a strange year. I have seen some higher moisture but nothing over 22% and it wasnt for very long. Some of the corn with the green tho in one of the other fields rite by the one Im in there I had to quit on because the moisture was 24. Same soil type same variety of corn and all planted at the same time and has the same amount of green in the leaves but the moisture was higher. This was some of our first planted so I fear that some of the other is not gonna be so dry.

flying belgian · Sep 27, 2011

I agree. It just gets townies POed at us. I also farm and collect it because it is there but it is not needed right now.

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