I greatly dislike trash and recycling days! It has nothing to do with trash or recycling, but everything to do about those nicely lined up containers that almost always seem to be placed directly across the road from a mailbox or electric pole.
With several different service providers, it seems to be a daily challenge to dodge the containers when moving equipment. So, please, please, please if you live in an area where you see farm machinery on roads, offset your container from mailboxes and poles or pull it off the road an extra foot or two.
I realize many people don’t even think about this being an issue, so this is just a friendly PSA.
Cars can get in the way, too. For the most part, though, automobiles haven’t been in the way as much this fall. Hopefully, we will finish up before farm equipment wears thin on everyone’s patience.
Ahead of schedule
I’m pretty sure one record will be broken for us this year. Unfortunately, it isn’t going to be a yield record. It will most certainly be harvest completion date.
We are on track to finish earlier than ever before. If we pushed really hard today and Saturday, we could finish this week – except for double crop soybeans that aren’t quite ready yet., However, completion will likely slide into early next week.
Weather has been great. We’ve only had a few rain days. Since we’ve been getting a lot done and the forecast doesn’t look disruptive, we’ve been shutting down at a reasonable time in the evenings. We only worked a couple of late nights this fall. When I read area harvest completion numbers this week, I was really surprised they weren’t higher.
Credit: Kyle Stackhouse
Average yields
I hope I’m wrong, when I do the final tally of the scale logs, but yields remain on my previous forecast. No records will be broken there.
Most dryland beans were APH average with a couple of fields above average and one below average.
Irrigated corn and irrigated soybeans have generally been good, but not significantly above average.
Dryland corn has mostly been average, with a field or two above. There haven’t been any real stinkers.
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