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Latimer Iowa | We have been stuck in a monsoon cycle here for the past few weeks. Rains about an inch everyday. Seems to come like a cow pissing on a flat rock with 50 mph winds each day too. It’s been beating the crap out of my oats, which looked as good as they ever had before. Lots of grain/weight on them, should be around 150-175 bpa oats, they are just starting to turn.
The oats are lodging in the constant barrage of weather. Especially end/odd rows and where we pushed fertility very hard. We will harvest with a Macdon fd250 and a macdon fd140. I have 1700 acres to do and anticipating slower harvest so added a second combine. Down areas are only about 1/4 of fields so may just put lifters on one head? Does anyone have experience with crop lifters on these heads? Do they help or a PIA? Macdon makes some simple looking ones, Flexfinger makes several models on expensive looking ones?
Also first pic shows where I sprayed 1 pass of 24d along the road when oats were about a foot tall. In the past I have seen a yield hit where we spray. It’s interesting the oats are standing perfect there and down where I didn’t spray. Thoughts?
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Lodged crop
