Harvesting Wheat At Last

rusty6 · Oct 26, 2019

Its at least a month late but I was finally able to get harvesting spring wheat this week. Its at least 3 points away from being dry but at this
point we can't afford to wait any longer. Its really flat on the ground in places and very hard to pick up with the header. Missing some and
then picking up dirt in others. I've dug more dirt out of the header this harvest than in the past 20. Only about 65 acres left to go now. I'm
still hopeful it might get done.

Harvesting Wheat

SVcummins · Oct 27, 2019

I think I ran more dirt through the combine than I did the plow this year . We?re cutting at 16% and the elevator has been taking it without a dockage they are rolling as it comes in . There is still a lot of safflower to be cut around here and still some wheat and barley to be cut .

BillinCentralMO · Oct 27, 2019

Nice job on the video. Always like seeing them.

Bruce from Can. · Oct 27, 2019

Do you have any problem with your wheat being sprouted?

Traditional Farmer · Oct 27, 2019

Never hear of harvesting wheat this time of year usually done in early July in my area.

Case Nutty 1660 · Oct 27, 2019

Do they sell the safflower for oil seed or is there another market for it beside bird feed? I grew a few acres on year for a oil seed test for the UW of Wyoming, produced well here but the State never pushed any processing plants or had incentives to get them built here so the choice is to pay it trucked for 300-500 miles no profit in that,, that stuff would be no fun to slug a combine in with all the stickers,, all of the critters here went Around the stuff lol
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rusty6 · Oct 27, 2019

(quoted from post at 04:16:14 10/27/19) Never hear of harvesting wheat this time of year usually done in early July in my area.

You must be way South. We are talking spring wheat. Lucky to be headed by the first week of July. Normally we could harvest it mid September dry but this year has been like nothing I've seen since 1969. Ground is white again this morning. 18 degrees.

rusty6 · Oct 27, 2019

(quoted from post at 04:54:13 10/27/19) Do they sell the safflower for oil seed or is there another market for it beside bird feed?

I don't know of anybody that grows safflower here. Some grow canary seed which is pretty much all bird seed as far as I know.

SVcummins · Oct 27, 2019

Safflower is used for bird seed and oil seed and
horse feed here

SVcummins · Oct 27, 2019

Good looking combine you have there . I do not like safflower because of all the stickers they are like thorn bushes if you ever plugged up probably just easier to set a match and burn the whole thing . They use safflower for oil seed bird seed and horse feed it?s Also good cattle feed

Traditional Farmer · Oct 27, 2019

Definitely South you here in Virginia,made 78 degrees here today.

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