My rye is finally gettingt swathed!!

Well, my pa and I worked on the swather for the guy that I custom hired. He couldn't find parts anywhere. I love working on things with my dad, he's 75 this sept. Owatonna swather with a ford 6cyl gas, wouldnt keep running. Float was getting stuck when low, ended up sanding down both floats 1/8", Spacer between intake and crb was loose and gasket was shot, little rubber cup on what I call the accelerator pump was toast, no one had one, so I robbed one off my brothers F600 inline, it worked, insulated the gas line which runs up along the block and across the valve cover,, I wanted to prevent vaporizing, adjusted the governor back to where the old paint showed it should be, she fired right up and has been swathing rye since, I believe he has only 1/2 of my field left, then I am sending him on to my oats, I would rather let them dry in a windrow with the oats on the stalk, than swath in a week and have most of my oats fall to the ground. As soon as I can figure out the wifes camera I will post a few pics, this rye crop is awesome. I just hope the persons 4400 combine I hired will be able to digest these huge windrows, we already are only taking 10' swath rather than the full 12'.

Dave is there a market for rye up there?

Everyone around here chops it for silage cause of lack of market and good early tonnage.

Gary

Rye whisky!

Rye is grown for straw here in NY. It's not combined but cut with moco left to bleach and bale. Soybeans are often no till drilled into the stubble. Someone must combine some for the seed market.

It was up to $8/bushel. Last Thursday it was still over $7. Haven't checked today. Gonna combine on Saturday if the weather holds up. Should be able to sell the straw, ussually $2-$3 a bale small squares. I am hoping to sell it off the feild and have some one else bale it. I only need 100 bales

I was just told that rye is worth more than winter wheat right now in our area. Barley I guess is worth more yet.

Donovan from Wisconsin