Oldest son done harvesting!!!

We finished my oldest son's corn Friday morning. It was a little slick but he wanted it done before Nov. 1st. He has to go out of town for work until Thanksgiving. His corn crop was a bin buster!!! He is a little north and west of me. He got an inch of rain right in the middle of a spell when I only got 2 tenths. He has had higher averages before but never this dry and this high of test weight. The yield is going to be right at 240-245 with 62-63 Lbs. test weights and 14 % moisture right out of the field. His ground is the best of all of ours. He bought his Father-in-law's farm 15 years ago or so. It has CSR in the high 80s and low 90s.

This afternoon we will try and figure out where we are going to put the corn. His bins and granary are FULL. We have two semi loads and 13 wagons left full. We where scrambling to find things to hold corn Friday as it just kept turning off corn. LOL Then we had to get it all under cover before the heavier rains Friday night. We had wagons stuck in the shop, empty cattle shed and the machinery shed. The combine bins were under cover but the tailends stuck out. We were that close to not having enough room for all of them. LOL

There is close to 8500 bushels on wagons and trucks. That is a lot but not enough to fill a bin. We may just weight it and start filling another bin at the farm. He will get his bushels but not the exact same corn when we haul it out. It is nice problem to have. My younger three boys are 10 days to two weeks from being done. They have some of their own crops and a fair amount of custom work yet. The soybeans are all done. The fellows they have left to do custom work for are the slowest ones to do. They do not have good storage so handling the grain is a bottle neck. They will more than likely park one of the combines and just finish with the one after their own corn is done.

So it shows how just one rain can make a big difference in your yield. The better soil really helps too.

All I can say is WOW! He has a right to feel good about that kind of corn. Those test weights are phenomenal. In my part of NWIA the yields were in the 185-235 range with the higher yields being in the lighter soil. Test weights have been in the mid to higher 50's. The lower yields I have heard of came off of land a little north of here that does have CSR's in the 80's but it was a little too flat and wet. We don't have many CSR's in the 80's in my neighborhood, and nothing in the 90's. My corn ran from 197 to 222 with a field that is notoriously not so good doing 212. The 197 came off very good land that I am farming for the first time this year. The fertility is sub-par because of a thrifty landlady from the past. It looked like 240 bushel corn all summer but ran out of food.

I forget where you are but I am in Nicollet Co. Mn. I too finished on Friday. My corn averaged around 200. Best crop I ever raised. I do have to custom harvest 35 acres corn for an organic farmer down the road. Can't start until Weds. as the elevator needs to flush out their dryer and conveying equip. Will haul it bout 60 miles so can only get 3 loads per day if I am lucky. Looks like very good corn so maybe 10 loads?

your yield is a lot better than ours in ohio, no wonder you can pay 300.00 rent we pay 100.00 and better get 150bu ac, and thats a good year

i would ed fell to bad i had a good friend that was a very good farmer and when ever i would ask about his yields hi always said not as good as my neighbors. its the old saying first lier does not stand a chance

Kent I posted how my yields are down this year. In the 180-185 range. My other boys' yields look to be in the 180-200 range. So this farm will be the best that any of us raised this year. This same farm yielded over 250 just three years ago. Every bushel that year went to town so it was all weighted and adjusted for moisture. Those are the numbers take them how ever you want.

I saw big piles of grain everywhere I went last week.

Good beans and good corn this year wasn't there? Never saw such even corn from one end of the field to the other. Hills and valleys, it was just good corn. Probably won't see that again in my life.

My bottleneck was getting the crop hauled away, when I'm hauling the combine is sitting. And this year was a lot of hauling!

They deal with Hope, or the place in St Peter for the organic?

Paul

JD the other day I was joking about my yield with the grain cart driver. When I finished figuring out the field that did 212 I told him i can tell the coffee shop guys 235 but I will tell the landlord it did 175. LOL

I still have about half of the beans to cut. We were VERY dry there for a good long while. The weight suffered because moisture was in the 7's! We had an inch of rain on Saturday so I am hoping to have a little better test.

I'm planning on cutting Tuesday. I'm sure tomorrow they will be a little wet to bin. I have binned quite a bit this year hoping to catch the market. There is still about 5000 bushels of bin space but I'm not cleaning to anymore bins! Two out of four ain't bad! I sold enough to pay for seed and spray so the rest is butter. About 350 acres left.