wheat harvest

BIG RUH · Jun 26, 2014

Wheat harvest is under way here in Illinois, St Louis area. Some farmers are saying its the best crop in their memory. Some fields a yielding up to 122 BPA. All wheat has a test weight well over 58

notjustair · Jun 26, 2014

Well, we are cutting here in NE KS as well. First time I have ever run the combine and rotary mower in the same field at the same time. We are cutting about half the wheat and mowing the rest that the weeds overtook. Some of the weeds are as tall as the hood on the 4020. Good thing we baled extra straw last year as there won't be any this year.

The guys that had a crop that matured earlier are much better off. I've still got 150 units of beans to get in before the good chance of rain Saturday night. I don't see much sleep between now and then.

Brendon-KS · Jun 26, 2014

In central Kansas our harvest is maybe a little over half done but things have been shut down from the rain all this week. The yield is half of normal; most guys I've talked to are averaging in the upper 20's to 30 bu/acre. It is very short and the weeds are starting to take over so the dockage is fairly high. With all the mud it might be first of next week before we can start up again. It's ironic how it was so dry for so long and now that harvest is here it is nothing but rain.

VicS · Jun 26, 2014

I am just east of you about 100 mi. Wheat here is light test weight. Low 50's Lots of white kernels. People who got their fungicide on at exactly the right time have good test weight and yields. One neighbor just go 1.50 after docks. Vic

wilamayb · Jun 26, 2014

Here in West TN I've heard of several guys with 50 lb test weight and getting $2.00 dock at the granary.

Fergienewbee · Jun 26, 2014

Notjustair;

For those ignorant souls--me--what is a unit of beans? How many pounds or bushels. etc.

Larry

notjustair · Jun 26, 2014

A unit is a certain quantity of seed. Most folks are going from putting on a certain weight of seed per acre (like 8 pounds to the acre for milo) to a population, or count of seed per acre. The planters are more precise so it makes sense to do it that way. A don't recall what is on the bags but they would be somewhere around 140,000 or 150,000 seeds per unit. I haven't bought it in bags but they will take unopened bags back and won't take the bulk in the seed wagon. I fear I may just run out of hours to get it all in the ground and need to return some. The window around here for planting soybeans ended the 25th so I'm tempting fate a little planning on planting though Sunday. It seems like it may be a fairly decent bean year so I may as well try. It's a pretty good ragweed and pigweed year as well.

Leroy · Jun 27, 2014

Western Ohio it is still a couple of weeks away. Last year at this time harvest was going on.

Fergienewbee · Jun 27, 2014

Thanks. I try to learn something new every day.

Larry

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