| Deere6 - 9/21/2025 10:29
Farming involves risk, bad things can always happen, one has to weigh those risk for his area. Do you start shelling corn at 35% as soon as it’s bakcklayered for fear of it blowing down? By no means would I stop if I had 10 days worth of beans that were ready to cut and no rain in the forecast, but a couple days of cutting with good rain chances, why not. It’s September 20 and much like in the spring most guys are geared up to harvest everything in 3 weeks. This is exactly the proper, prudent view, IMO. To each his own, but switching to corn for awhile isn’t automatically punting bean harvest till thanksgiving. I remember back around 1980 timeframe, common ragweed invaded our beans something terrible, used a new herbicide promoted by our supplier as great new stuff, called MowDown. Very worst performance I’d ever seen. Anyway, we decided to switch to corn and let several frosts kill that ragweed good and dead. Started back on November 11th, could not believe what a difference that was. Wished I’d waited on all them. Somehow, we managed to escape all those pods splitting open…… |
Forecasted rain and cutting beans
