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West Ky | We have been cutting beans for the last few days that are 8-10 bu acre.
Rain rain rain until July 1st. Monsoon weather and we were finally able to get wheat out. The wheat was flat on the ground and sprouting in the head and the weeds and grass already had grown up through the wheat. Made cutting wheat a horrible nightmare. It was difficult to even see any wheat in this mat of grass. So much green matter that the wheat was being thrown out the back end of the combine. Nothing we could do. Tearing up all kinds of crap on the combine as well as the header. Plugging throat, header etc up every 100' towards the end.
We were able to get one field out the day before the monsoon and it averaged 82. The last field was 6bu yields just kept dropping everyday. So we lost our ass in wheat.
Well by this time it is already mid July by the time we got done planting beans and replanting a bunch of the full season beans. Prob 80% of them.
It did not rain but a tenth here and their and the pods fell off and had BB size grain in them. The stems are still half way green right now and moisture is running 15%.
It started raining 2.5 weeks ago and we got a couple inches shy of 10". Was 70-80 degrees cloudy and no wind. Not a bit of sunshine got some Saturday along with some wind and was able to get back in the beans Sunday. By this time the pods swelled up from the little beans and busted and spilled out prob a 1/3 of the beans that were in them on the ground.
Corn in the hilly ground was decent but not great this year. The flat ground was a disaster. We had to fly on nitrate as the corn was standing in water and the roots did not develop still didn't help any. The result. 60 bu corn over several hundred acres.
How was your all's day? Not everybody had excellent yields on at least one thing. It was one migated disaster after another.
We also have spent a ton of money on the combine fixing all the crap that was tore up on it while in wheat. | |
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Bean yield map
