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east central ND | Getting some corn combined. Mostly around 18% or so. I don’t have a dryer, but get by with air bins. It’s interesting how the weather this fall really shows how getting corn planted a week earlier in spring can shave off 2 to 3 points moisture in fall.
I have the coop spread fert in spring, they do a decent job, but getting them here to get it done in a timely manner is getting harder every year. My sandy soils leach nitrogen, so spreading N in fall is a waste of $$$. Having talked with some neighbors that have their own pull type spreader and the labor to use it, I am seeing they planted some fields a week or more before I did, not waiting on the coop.
Now, I wasn’t sitting idle, I did get some corn in earlier, and I put soybeans in while waiting for the rest of the corn fertilizer to be spread. But the lower harvest moisture on my earlier planted corn is paying nicely this year. The later planted corn is just slower to dry down, as expected.
Looks like I need to do some math on getting my own spreader, and if I would have the time to actually use it. And then there would be the time sitting in line for hours at the fert plant….hhhhmmmm.
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A week in spring makes corn dryer in fall, who knew?
