I elected to run a little corn today

Just twice around the small field outside the barn. Pretty poor yield. Woods on one side of the field. Buildings and orchard on the other side. Deer really like this field. I think it will be hay next year.

Ran a sample up to the elevator. Price is terrible, $2.96 today. I watched the ears in the corn head and listened to it unload into the truck. Ran my hands thru it and told my wife I thought it was 18-20%, closer to 20%. Tested at 19.5%. Not a bad guess! They are charging 4 cents per point above 15% so I may just go ahead and run it next week. I would like to take advantage of the nice weather before it changes. It could dry another 2-3% in the next couple weeks with the right weather so I won't rush too much. Not making any money this year but I look out on those fields and see enough to cover the input expenses and repairs...maybe a little more. Sooner I take it off the better. Deer and turkeys are bad this year and those fool blackbirds are swarming all over the place again this year. Nice to run the combine again. Amazing machines if you really think about it.

I had a great day but that fella at the elevator was having a terrible one. He is full. No beans and no corn accepted. No one will tell him when they are coming to take some away. THREE tandem trailer semis full of grain sitting in line and the drivers did not care that my wife was standing there with my sample waiting for a test. They was cursing this poor guy up one side and down the other until he finally just walked off and left them there with no place to put their loads. Don't know what finally happened. That may stall me off some on harvesting!

Well,you had better luck than I did. I tried to pick a load to grind. Punched a hole down through the field close to one side so I could try to at least pick around something and not all one way along the side.
The tractor,picker and wagon are still out there. Lacked a few hundred feet of making it all the way through. No sense even trying to get it out and wallowing down more corn and burying things even deeper. Maybe it'll settle down a little more by Saturday or Monday and we'll try to get it out then.

Wish I could get beans done!!! So much mud I'm afraid to get into some fields. Hope it drys or freezes before it snows!!!!

I finished drilling cover crop into the bean stubble Sunday, had to work around a couple of standing-water spots on the muck. The clay side hills I seeded ten days ago has four-inch tall rye already!

Sounds like not much difference here 15 or so miles north.... Good luck out there

Last time I ran a little corn , I had the law looking for me.

Sounds tough. Combine slewed around a little in a couple spots. More water out there than I thought. Don't know what will become of beans. That is my wettest field and I can see the water on the far side.

Got my corn done yesterday. yield not so good only in the hundred bushel area. was some of the best graded corn I have ever raised. Started at 19.6 was down to 18 test weight was from 57-58 FM less than 1% damage less than 1%.

Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out why....Grin