Tuesday, October 22, 2024

We began the harvest of double-crop soybeans yesterday around noon.  It took that long to get the morning dew burned off!  We had a good day of harvest, with yields being mostly better than expected.  Of the 4 fields we harvested, 3 of them yielded above typical DCB.  This was a pleasant surprise, because our regular-season soybean results were hurt by the very dry August.  It’s good to get that kind of surprise every now and then!

Working at the Steen farm yesterday evening…

It will probably take us 3 or 4 more days to work through the DCB.  There is a small (30%) chance of rain on Friday.  If it does rain, that’ll slow the DCB progress, but it will be a help.  October has been a wonderful month to work at harvesting, so dry and warm.  But a nice little rain would help boost the start of the emerging wheat crop.   Really, we can’t lose, either way.

We are eager to try the demonstrator vertical tillage tool in the post-harvest DCB fields. It performed very well in the planting of much of the wheat crop.  We think this will help manage the mat of crop residue in a better way to allow the field to warm and dry next spring.  I think we will test it a little bit this morning.

Brandon D is delivering soybeans to ADM in Newburgh this morning, and Brandon K is delivering corn to GPC in Washington.  This helps use the morning productively until the dew burns off and we can start again on DCB.

Have a good day.