Harvest

[Dairydeere]

I can just watch this conversation knowing very little about soybeans

Been doing corn silage for a week now, we had high winds so half our corn is down and a pain to chop

[Illinois Farmer]

Well we will be finishing the harvester and trying out the new dryer for corn in the coming days.

[Farmercaseih]

What maturity beans were they?

I believe they were a 2.4 relative maturity.

Our earliest and dryest beans are 2-5s.

[Farmercaseih]

[Illinois Farmer]

Our earliest and dryest beans are 2-5s.

Oh i see. That would explain why ours were a little ahead of yours.

[Farmercaseih]

You might have planted earlier too

[Illinois Farmer]

Yeah, I think we did. We like being early, so we have time to chisel plow and haul liquid out.

[Farmercaseih]

We planted as early as we can with fit conditions

[Illinois Farmer]

We planted those on may 2nd.

[vondeylenfarms]

Dry spring we got most done by end of April. Beans look good just not there size wise. I think we are losing alot at the reel as they are so dry the pods are exploding. Can't afford a JD draper lol

[Farmercaseih]

Our dry field has quite a few small beans

[Farmercaseih]

Tommorow our friend/mechanic is going to use our combine to harvest his beans

[Illinois Farmer]

Dry spring we got most done by end of April. Beans look good just not there size wise. I think we are losing alot at the reel as they are so dry the pods are exploding. Can't afford a JD draper lol

That happens with our wheat sometimes. We don't have a Draper either only a 625f header and a 6 row corn header.

[vondeylenfarms]

Fairly certain we have a 625f header...35ft I believe. Macdon makes a 36ft draper that's cheaper than JD we have been keeping our eyes open for one at local dealers. We don't need anything bigger for our operation. We do have a 8 row corn head, 608c I think...I should really look at the numbers more often lol

[Farmercaseih]

You have a 635f then, the 625f is only 25ft