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SW Saskatchewan | Stage of the crop is very variable up here but they are all probably the best ever(that I have seen).
Near the border in the Frontier country and east they seem to be about the same stage as you. Here on the south slope of the Cypress Hills we have been having a very cool summer. Generally 10 degrees cooler than 10 miles further south and a couple of hundred feet lower. Most crops are various stages of green and maybe 2 to 4 weeks away from harvest.
And that puts us over our traditional Labor Day week frost. Last few years we have been blessed with the frost staying away until October. Hope it repeats this year.
Did your Urea feeding give you protein this year? I'm afraid all I did is not doing much with the additional bushels being produced this year. Have heard the Golden Triangle is having low protein in their winter wheat but that is just jungle telegraph news. Not confirmed.
About header width- last year we had a short crop and badly needed straw to supplement the snowballs we were going to be feeding our cows so I bought a 42' Honey Bee and mounted it on a 9600 JD I bought to keep the straw away from the Axial flow grinder. Was pleasantly surprised that it behaved better than my 30 ft on the 2188, even in a short crop. The stance of the JD was a big help-the front tires are a lot further forward to the header than the IH- I have spent a lot of time in the IH coming downhill with the rear tires in the air and only the header on the ground keeping me from doing a front flip.
But if the combine is stable( as I assume it to be on your river bottoms) the header supported by the sprung gauge wheels and then the smaller gauge wheels on the header ends pretty much prevents gouge and scrape- but it doesn't prevent getting hung up on a ridge that you are straddling.
Well, here's hoping all your wheat is 14.5 % and (fingers crossed) I get mine off in good shape. | |
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Problem seems to be solved . . .
