Was curious as to what type of crop harvest some of you got this year.
We got 56 bushel an acre on our beans and 220 bushel an acre on corn. The beans were the best we have ever gotten and the corn was close to our all time high of 230.
Some of the light soils are averaging in the 50 bu range for soybeans. Some of the better soils are going in the mid to upper 50's.
We are just starting to do corn at our place. From what we've done so far I'm thinking we'll average 220 bu on all the corn ground.I'm hearing neighbors say the corn they've done is in the 200-250 bu range.
Of course you know farmers are the ones who taught fishermen to fib. ;D
My brother got their crops in today and yielded 260 on the corn. His place is about 3 miles south of me.
I can remember being 10 years old and driving the grain truck to the elevator for my Grandfather. When I brought back the weigh slips from the elevator my grandfather was so excited I thought he was going to mess his pants.
Turns out that he finally broke the 100 bushel an acre mark. What a mile-stone that was. He hollard at grandma and said, Mother, get your sunday cloths on, were going out for dinner.
Boy have times changes.
I haven't checked with the neighbors to be sure, but I'd suspect we'd be luck to get 10 bu per acre. There's something about a frost on June 24, coupled with another on August 27 and the coldest summer on record that seems to affect the yield. Wonder what it is? :o :'( :'(
A great year for crops in general, but not so great in the Ohio River bottoms.
On Friday there was a stange oder in the air here in Evansville, IN. My wife thought is smelled like the landfill, which is five miles southwest of our home. But we never smell the landfill. In Saturday mornings paper the local EPA office ran a story about the smell. Seems many people in town had called about it; thinking it was a chemical spill or toxic cloud. In turns out it was the soybeans in the Ohio River bottoms just south of Evansville rotting from last Sundays floodwaters. And all of this from Hurrican Ivan as we have not had any measurable precip. in this area for over 30 days. Crazy!
Worse yet, many fields in the Ohio River bottoms flooded in late June and so this is the second crop loss of the year.
i can just imagine how that smelled!
without a dryer, its gunna be at LEAST a month before we start pickin, but we'll be choppin corn here next week, and i dont expect to see the yeilds of last year, 23 acres to fill our larger silos! we just didnt get the mid-summer GGDs to boost the tonnage. ears look good though.
Kirk,
Your grandad breaking the 100 bu mark reminds me of when we first grew ear corn here. I had my grandad's old 101 JD mounted picker. He used it on an F-12 Farmall (which I still have) I was a lot more progressive ,however and mounted it on an H Farmall :D :D Got it to working good except it was doing an awfully poor job of husking. I had Dad run the tractor while I rode the picker to see what was going on in the husking bed. The ears were about three deep going over the rolls. No wonder about 2/3 of the ears didn't get husked ::) That machine was probably built for about 40 bu yields and we got over 100 that year ;D
Another funny experience we had with some silage corn one year: My brother had just started working for Pioneer seed as a plant breeder. He had access to all kinds of seeds and talked us into trying some tropical corn for silage. That DanG stuff grew like Jack's beanstalks. It made three ears to the stalk and the lowest one was out of this short guy's reach. Had to really creep along to chop it. Biggest problem was the cows didn't much care for it :D :D :D
Don't nknow where duke101 is on this one.
He told me some of his corn was making 235 bu.
We haven't even started on beans or corn yet, but it won't be long. 8)
Corns looking good and the beans are lokking great.
The oats did 55 bu this year. ;D
We are gouing to start chopping corn here in the next few days. Very dry August and Sept. Corn in some spots is completly burnt off where the rock is close. Beans aren't much better, lucky if we'll get 20 bu/acer. Probably won't be till the end of Oct for beans and the middle to end of Nov for the corn.
Very weird year that's for sure.
Jason
The sweet corn did real well, but not as good as it could have with all the cold weather we had. I only grow a couple acres of field corn, just to have some ears to feed the horses, so I don't worry too much about it. I doesn't even take one bag of seed to plant. Most of our ground is in hay, and it didn't do good at all. It grew well , but rarely got dry enough to make. We finished first cutting mid-September and are halfway through second cutting now. After this week I may quit and leave the rest in the field. Most of it is still too short to bother with.
What has made this summer rough is that it was the second cold, wet summer in a row. Kind of makes you disgusted, but if you don't want to deal with the weather don't be a farmer.
ok guys got done cutting corn last night ,yesterday my seed salesman stoped by an weighed some corn, that he had entered in the nat. corn growing contest. they had sent me a letter a while back an i didnt read it. i was leaving 16 rows about 1\4 mile long an i though that would be enough for a test. when he got here we read the letter an you have to at least 2.5 acers an i was about done so we ahd to use what i had left it made 277 we did go an measure one of the strips i left 295, the whole feild will avg. more than the sample i cut for the contest. i guess i should have read thr intree form first.this was a old alf.feild with sub surface drip irr on 90 acers. i know i wont win but it was worth a try
duke
what happen every body in the feild . what is the hay market back east they want to steal it out here
duke
hey duke, come up here to new york and see if you can get 277bu./ac.! :D ill let ya run rampant over a hundred or so untiled "irrigated" acres :D :D :D
bring your rice and canes! ;D
congrats on everyones massive harvest
We do all hay. It was so wet during May & June we didn't get any cut until July 4.The quality was so bad I just left 15 acres stand.I mowed it down just the other day to rot over the winter. Time to rotate back to beans and start feeding the deer again. Beans first, then high speed lead. :D
Tom,
Bringing in the $$ (hunters) w/high speed lead pays way better than conventional methods of farming. Really.
Haytrader
Haytrader,
I know what you mean with the hunters. A 20 acre wooded area with deer can bring as much as 25,000 a year for a dear lease. I cant believe what city folks are willing to pay to hunt dear.
We will stick to the farming because of what we have seen with a great deal of these money spending hunters. All to often its the rich boys week out of town with loads of drinking, gambling and destroying the woods.
All our crops are in and it was another banner year for us. Looking forward to a good dear season now that they dont have any corn to hide in 8)
About 10 years ago the deer were so thick we got damage control permits from the game warden.In 2 years we shot 36 deer off of our 101 acres.Some of the neighbors didn't like it ,but they don't farm. I planted a food plot for the turkeys but they ate most all of the seed.
Body shop guys around here like deer.
;D
Wife had a Grand Am.
Hit seven deer at one time. Light damage to car..laundry was not light.
:D
Now she drives a Tahoe.
And complains about her gas bill.
::)
Speaking of food plots. I saw a business card at a local cafe yesterday of a guy from Ga. that is a food plot specialists. I also heard some hunters brought him in here to set up some plots on a lease they have. And I always thought deer ate whatever we already had.
;)
And.........I heard there is "special corn" they can buy that is supposed to make the antlers bigger. Wonder if it is called cornalis? :D :D :D
Haytrader and Kirk
You guys make me think about what hunting has become........even here in s/w Illinois there are now "GUIDES" and many hunting land leases..Now, I hunt as part of a life syle and it is just a natural part of my routin of livin. I see ALL kinds of fancy arrows, scents , 500 types of stands , camo under-garments, :o ......It seems like a good excuse to spend your spendable money on silly toys.I mean, SILLY
Where there was once 1 isle of huntin gear at the store there are now 4......It really is an industry and it leaves me shakin my head....I can kill a nice buck in a homemade stand or on the ground, wearing jeans and flannel 8) 8)..............Is this some kinda , hunting...society thing goin on....it seems to be kinda fake :-/, or far from what basic hunting means............ ??? ???
Buzz,
Know xactly what ya mean.
There are a couple rancher/farmers here that have pooled thier land for hunting purposes and guide a group of four hunters. Recently they bought a really nice house and are remodeling it for them to stay in. They are making close to $100,000 each off these guys.
The $$ the hunters spend is more than some make. Wonder what they do for a livin?
Sad part of all this is......there is not many places for my son and his friends to hunt cause it is all leased. I used to have a route I hunted. All the neighbors allowed me to hunt and granddad would let me take the old pickup and his bolt action 16 ga..
Aww, the memories.
In days gone by, hunting was considered normal and health behavior for boys/men, and almost everybody allowed hunting on thier place.......only trouble came when city people came out and shot the place up like idiots....
It was VERY common to see cars parked all over the countryside ..especially during the wekend....our culture HAS changed for the worse in this regard :-[
A rough guesstimate for our corn is 155 bu/acre. We had plenty of rain all year so it should have come close to our record of 209 bu/acre. But it was so wet in the spring that a lot of corn was under water a few days and some of it was replanted. That brought the average way down. Maybe next year!
The beans were planted VERY late and most of them had to be replanted due to heavy rains. Initial estimate for the beans is 48 bu/acre, but we still have a ways to go.
I DREAM of 220 bu/acre corn! Nice going.
my heads not with me today, how many bushels in a ton of 16% moisture shell corn?
is this on the calculator to the left? :D
thanks
Quotehow many bushels in a ton of 16% moisture shell corn?
Here, the elevator allows 15% moisture before any dock, so 2000/56 = 35.7 bushels. At 16% moisture, I'd have to do a bit of figuring.
kirk,
i have neighbors that dont put up with that crap, when they lease hunting rights it is wrote in the contract NO DRINKING OR ABUSE TO THE LAND. if so they are kicked off an no refund it is the type of people, not just all city folk,some relly love to get out the city an leave the contry the way they found it. of corse a big rack helps.an some wont shoot every thing it has to be say 190 point+ if they dont get a shot they wright the big check an thank you for the time out an write another check for next years down payment.
i have went against out of state hunting but there is to much money in an it is here to stay so next year i may take so hunters in too instead of just running them off.
duke :D
One more day of baling tomorrow andd it's off to the deer woods for me!
The corn is all in and averaged 211 bu per acre.
I've been looking into leasing out to hunters for deer season here, if you have folks willing to spend that kind of money to hunt in Kansas I'm gonna retire on what they'd pay to hunt the big bucks in Iowa. ;D
My dad has 400 acers with about 100 of it in woods and swamp. He has never charged a nickle for anyone to hunt on his land. Most of the the hunter's our are friends and relatives but there are a few that come form out of town to hunt. Most of them usually bring a case of beer or bottle of something as appreciation for letting them hunt on our land. We have too many deer and wild turkeys eating our crops now. I can't imagine if the land was posted what the deer and turkeys would eat!!! Right now our county is in a "earn a buck" season where you have to shoot a doe first to shoot a buck. I have yet to see a reciepe for antler soup anyway!!
Jason
Norm,
A land owner with a few big bucks can get the other kind of big bucks.
;D
Yer sittin on a cash register, all ya gotta do is ring the bell.
http://hunting.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ks-mo-hunt.org%2F
Check this out.
I know some guys here that lease thiers this way.