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bjrogg:
We’ll see what tomorrow brings
Bjrogg
bjrogg:
We started out yesterday morning with a hydraulic line needing to be located, picked up and replaced on our combine.
Also a track that needed to be changed on cart. And a bunch of trucks that needed to be unloaded.
I serviced my son’s combine and he took out trucks. Then I helped my nephew take off old track. We found a cracked idler wheel and my nephew worked at fixing it. I went to town to get combine parts.
Then I took my son’s combine to my grandmas farm and tried the wheat. It was 17.2 moisture so I kept combining.
About a hour later the cart showed up and that speeds things up for the combine. About 1/3 of your time is spent unloading grain from combine. The cart takes my grain on the go right while I’m still combining so it makes me about 30% more efficient time wise.
After about another hour the second combine showed up a things really started to roll. We kept my son very busy hauling wheat to the Coop.
We finished my grandma’s farm. About 100 acres. I don’t know the exact yield yet but it was pretty decent especially considering how dry it has been. Really helped it got off to a good start last fall and the ground wasn’t compacted. Moisture was good and quality of wheat should be very good so far.
We moved combines and cart to my farm. All the trucks are full so I need to take some out this morning before I service combine.
Really hoping we have a big day today.
Will update when I can
Bjrogg
bjrogg:
Been a busy past few days.
Last Saturday we started out with 530 acres of wheat to harvest.
But first my favorite granddaughters birthday party.
Her mom always makes really cool cakes and they taste good to. This one was a taco theme and it didn’t disappoint.
Bjrogg
bjrogg:
About 2:00 her father and I said our goodbyes to everyone at the party and headed for his wheat fields. We tried his wheat and it was ready. We took off his 60 acres. It yielded pretty good and quality was excellent.
Sunday started out with one combine down needing a hydraulic line fixed and cart down needing track changed.
I helped in the morning with fixing and running after parts. Then I moved my son’s combine to my grandma’s field. The wheat was ready and I started with one combine and no cart. After a hour the cart showed up. Then a little later the second coming and we got things clicking. We ended up getting grandma’s finished and combines moved to my farm. We did 100 acres so not bad for how the day started.
Monday we started by my house. There’s 205 acres here in four fields. It wasn’t the greatest combine weather. Was sunny but wind was off the lake and grain didn’t dry very good. It was a little higher in moisture than we would have liked but we kept at it. We had a good day and got about 175 acres harvested. The yield was decent 101 by house and 117 in field next to it. Was a good feeling to clear off as much as we did.
Tuesday morning woke up to the wind blowing hard through the night. That keeps the dew off and let’s us start combining earlier in the day. There was still about 50 acres left at my place but it was a lot of headlands and fence rows with trees that the wheat still was a little moist.
We decided to move to Wruble farm about seven miles away. It’s 114 acres. We moved everything and started combining about 11:00am . We just finished the field and it started raining. The rain was very spotty. We got anywhere from nothing to a 1.25” all of the remaining 105 acres of wheat got rained on.
Wednesday we got some more storms that rolled through. A little more wide spread but still amounts very spotty. One of the beet fields that didn’t get anything Tuesday got a splash and one of the navy bean fields that didn’t get anything on Tuesday still only got a dust settler.
I’m really glad we got as much wheat off as we did. We got enough to cover our contracts. It yielded decent and was excellent quality. I’m thinking some of the stuff that’s left is going to be our best yielding wheat , but I’m not really optimistic that it will still be good quality. Pretty hard to please everyone, but we really needed the rain we did get and feed wheat should be a decent price if that’s what it becomes.
Bjrogg
bjrogg:
The wind blew last night and I cut some heads of wheat to get a falling numbers test run. The wind really helped. It dried the rain off the heads before they started to sprout and the falling numbers are still good.
We are moving stuff back to my place. Hopefully by later this afternoon we can combine.
The clover cover crop sure liked the rain. It was shriveled right up before the rain
Bjrogg
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