Harvest time

Good news post got me thinking. Wheat is a day or two away. Snacks for the boys and me are ready, plus about 20lbs of ham for sandwiches. Stay safe and hope the yields are good, and the rain stays away.

Good luck with your harvest. We got hailed out saturday. It got all the wheat and milo.

Sorry to hear that. We had a lot of families Southwest and Northeast of us get it too. We dodged the bullet again. Is the milo gone or small enough to recover?

The hail was big, the milo is toast, cant see it in the field, it disappeared. We just got done gathering cows today, they were scattered bad, just like a blizzard. Broken windows and windshields, truck mirrors, metal roofs beat flat, not a straight piece of metal on anything that was outside. Its a total loss. We are still finding broken stuff.

The weather service called the hail 'lime sized'. It was the same storm that hit Johnson. The hail path was 11 miles wide. It was a doozy.

You need some nutty buddies in that line up.

B4 the last rain a neighbor test cut some that was 15% moisture and 45tw.. very low quality. Wheat looks nasty driving by. Just to much rain

Waiting for dryer ground here then we're off to the races. Wheat looks really good were it didn't drown out but there's a lot that did down out. We'll know more in a day or 2

Flint I hope our wheat has a better test weight than that. Kinda makes me nervous!!

Yes sir, you guys have really got it this year. We were planning on coming back to lake Marion again for our vacation, but our spot is under water. Great town and great people. You picked a good spot to settle down

bacatrapper, I was in CO. Saturday. Hailed pretty good Saturday west of canon where I was. when the storm lifted could see the sangre de cristos were white above timberline. Next day it had either all blown off or melted. Arkansas river is at spring water levels still and water is dirty not clear. Rafters seem happy about it as there were hundreds daily playing in the rough water. Few kayaks as well. I didn't hear of any getting hurt when the hail hit but there it was pea size. Can still see plenty of snow in the high country but I stayed down about 6500 feet. Coming home I took 96 to great bend . Country around Eads has more grass than I ever seen before. Coming in to great bend there were lakes where there didn't use to be any. Went through Osawatomie yesterday and an old cemetery going back to civil war years is underwater.

seems like its either drought or flood last few years. no happy medium.

Thank sir, moved here from McPherson and don't regret it. I enjoy the flinthills and the smaller town. If you ever need anything when your in this part of Ks don't hesitate to look me up.

My dad had a harvest crew for 10 years. I went for 3, before the kids came . Really enjoyed it and met some good people. We pulled into Colby KS just before dark and cut 80 acres before it got tough. That night a hailstorm rolled in and completely wiped it out. Has to be a sick feeling for the farmers.

Will do. I hope to get back there when the water goes down

First test for today was 14%, so we cut a full load and of course the load was 16.5%!! Dang I’ll never learn, so here we sit.

Surely it'll be rdy by tomorrow. Mowed some ditches an waterways today an under the wheat it still looked greasy. We figure no reason to rut it out for low tw wheat. Try it in couple of days an slam Beans in as soon as it comes off

Your weather for the next week is 90 plus degree heat with 70 degree nights. Not even a chance of rain on Monday. Have a beer and chill as God is going sending you harvest weather.

Good luck with your harvest, 90s temps here with no rain its hay madness lol. Wheat mostly out in my area with beans drilled back in

Wheat here will go end of the week...barring more rain. Quality is a concern with all this rain and more undoubtedly still to come. Hay got mowed today. Everybody got fingers crossed. I got a field a corn may be too tall to side dress but we’ll see late afternoon or next day.

Explain to a non-farmer the significance between 14% and 16.5%

The elevator generally wants wheat at 15% moisture. If its wetter than that they dock you, and pay you less a bushel. They can blend it just fine, with dryer wheat, its just another way for them to stick you.

I hope your conditions improve soon. Good luck with your harvest.

Cut sample here , it was in the 12s with 60.5 test wait. Monitor showed in the 80 bushel/ acre. Ground too soft yet though.

Sounds like its ready to go, at 12 and 60.5 tw. That 80 b/a sounds pretty good, go get it.

Just looked at radar....... we are minutes away from getting really wet again.....

Our wheat price is $4.67 per bushel.

Grain will keep much longer under 15% moisture bagged or in a bin. Stored grain tends to heat up initially, combined with high moisture can lead to mold issues. That’s the reasoning.
Too dry and it becomes brittle resulting in mechanical damage from machinery/augers etc.

There is a sweet spot 12-15%. Some folks like to take it a lil wet and forced air dry in the bin. This also cools it down overnight/nights

Been on (PYO) strawberry acreage for the last 5 days. The crop Is absolutely unbelievable. If the weather doesn't get to hot we may get another 14 or so .

.8 in rain overnight.. the wait continues

We are finally rolling today. Humidity is high so we won’t be running late tonight

Yep, COOP starts docking use real hard above 13.5% moisture. They have to keep air to it so it doesn’t heat up, and they don’t want to buy water. Plus the higher the moisture the lower the test weight per bushel.

Pawnee,What is your current wheat price? I trust you don't mind me asking.

It’s been bouncing around in the $4.30 range lately.

Stripper heads?

No go here, ground too muddy. Plan is start late tomorrow afternoon on 2 small fields were the weeds are CV coming and hopefully wind it up to full speed Saturday

Yes we run 2 32' Shelbournes. The 3rd combine has a 36' flex draper and cuts by itself

Pawnee you guys must have a pretty big operation running three combines. Glad the weather is cooperating and your getting to cut. I’d say they will be starting here within the next week

pulled in across the road from my house last night - by the time I get home likely soybeans will be planted - they don't mess around, take the wheat off and plant directly behind the combine


wheat down the road has clover under it - combining it Friday and baling the straw off it

Giving it a try

Pawnee

What’s better the Draper head or the stripper head? Those stripper heads look fast

I can’t answer that honestly. This is the first year with a flex Draper, and he has the spreaders off making windrows for cattle bedding this coming winter. I think he could run with them if he wasn’t. I’ll know more in a few days

I am curious as well, I have never seen anything except a reel, can u harvest faster with the drapers or does it prevent ground loss, not being nosy just curious as to the benefit. I know practices are different in different areas, and I have never been to Kansas.

Good luck flint hill fur. We are bouncing from one end of the county to the other looking for dry wheat

If a reel is cutting at 3mph a Draper or stripper is probably running at 5-6mph

10/4

Couldn’t help but notice the pig feeder. We got a few around here.

First semi load headed for town

Good deal. Hope it goes well. I’m stuck furrowing the last of the corn. It’s so tall I’m having to drive 1.5mph so it doesn’t snap. It’s giving me a stomach ache after this I get to lay irrigation pipe in 100 degree weather. I’m actually looking forward to that, because I won’t be on here!!

Our corn is tasling

Well grain was dry yesterday but ground wasn't rdy. Duals were full by the second pass. We got corn tasseled down to the replant that is a foot and yellow. Wonder how much N is left over after the river being on it 3 different times.

I can’t believe you guys have corn that mature! I thought the whole state was like us from all the rain. My biggest corn won’t tassel for 3 weeks! Our test weights are good. How about you guys?

Dont listen to ag radio, its all doom and gloom. The feed we drilled in our hailed out wheat is coming up. I recon well pasture all the neighbors cows.

Life goes on. Its better then working in town, they wouldnt have us anyway. I have met pawnee he could work in town, the rest of us no way.

Good for you boys, get your grain!

Our test weights were running 62.7 to 63.9 yesterday moisture was between 10-11%. Protein was only around 10.3

ran the last two days - 58.8 and 59.8 test weights - fields averaged 65.4 bushel - local coop price $5/bu

finished baling the straw yesterday and put up 420 small squares as well - people are too lazy to come get $2 bales of straw from the field....

2X Pray'n and hope'n for the best for everyone.

Test weights 56 to 60 here. Fields yielding 40 to 80. Monitor running from 19 to 110 bushels to the acre in same field depending on were all the water stood and were it drained well. We hooked a post with one combine last night and tore up the feeder housing....

I wish I could find Straw that cheap. Got a bale last week for $7.00

Not a good way to start the afternoon. Nothing like watching 80 bushel wheat go up in smoke

What happened? We are about 2 hrs from finishing here.

Had straw buildup inside a sheld on new Draper header. Told my brother Probably should start looking at that everyday lol

Nothing hotter then a wheat fire. Thank goodness the wind was right or we would have lost 60 acres

Ttt.