Crop Harvest

kansasbrittany

kansasbrittany

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For those that have been in pheasant country(NC, NW, WC, SW, SC) recently, what kind of completion rates are you seeing for harvest? Some of the beans are out around here (not even close to pheasant country) and at least one of the guys I work with is very close to cutting corn.
 
kansasbrittany said:
That's good to hear. Thank you!

It'll be nice if they're out by the youth opener. Hopefully someone can chime in on NC'ish KS as well.
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Kb,

When i was up around the mitchell osborne county area a couple weeks ago everything was still standing as in corn and milo but looked as it was about to be ready to cut..i would imagine most of it has been cut with the exception of a few of the fields that were still wet..hope that helps..good luck and let us know how the youth opener goes..hope the youths see some birds and have a great experience
 
bchunter said:
Kb,

When i was up around the mitchell osborne county area a couple weeks ago everything was still standing as in corn and milo but looked as it was about to be ready to cut..i would imagine most of it has been cut with the exception of a few of the fields that were still wet..hope that helps..good luck and let us know how the youth opener goes..hope the youths see some birds and have a great experience
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just curious....what does a field look like, "as it was about to be ready to cut"? :confused:

not trying to be a wise ass, but I have seen fields ready to be cut, still standing in December......
 
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hunter94 said:
just curious....what does a field look like, "as it was about to be ready to cut"? :confused:

not trying to be a wise ass, but I have seen fields ready to be cut, still standing in December......
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Haha good point hunter...guess i should have been more specific..it means the corn i saw was very dried out and you could see where a test strip had been cut..my bad sorry lol
 
bchunter said:
Haha good point hunter...guess i should have been more specific..it means the corn i saw was very dried out and you could see where a test strip had been cut..my bad sorry lol
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hey, thanks for the explanation bc.....you would hope he is ready to get the rest off...obviously that test cut came up with a little higher moisture content than expected..or the combine started acting up...what looks dry to us may still be too wet for his liking, but I would guess it is close...TY.
 
I'm certainly no farmer, but I've been lead to believe that corn can be left standing long after it is ready to be cut without sacrificing much yield. That may explain why you see unharvested fields late into the year. Milo, on the other hand, will lose yield if left too long.

In my non-farmer eyes, a milo field is "about ready to be cut" when the heads start to look like they are "falling out".
 
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