Saturday morning, September 20, 2025
It has been a productive week of harvest at Carnahan & Sons. We picked corn on Monday, and then the rest of the week, we cut soybeans. We will be back in the soybean field today. We have been moving through the soybeans pretty smoothly so far. There are little patches of beans in each field that are not quite dry (13%), but most have been running in 11-12% range. The yields have not been stellar, mostly in the low- to high-70s. We have seen spots of 80- and 90-bushel soybeans, but no field averages like that. Still we are grateful for these results.
Larry takes Oliver over to see his dad Brandon D in the grain cart tractor.
We wrapped up at the Downen location just before dark last night, so we moved the combines and headers home to end the day. We will be moving over to the Harry farm late this morning, and the goal is to complete those 4 fields today.
The guys are preparing the combines with fuel and DEF this morning here at home. It is my goal to have the combines back here tonight. Rain is predicted for Sunday or Monday, and it will be good to have them here in the shed in case it does. It will feel good to take tomorrow off. If we do get a rain, it will be very welcome on the DCB and help provide moisture for planting wheat late next week. The DCB have been showing moisture stress in the hot days this week. It’s amazing how we had excess rain all spring and summer, but now a few weeks of hot and dry weather really changes things.
Fueling the S780 this morning.
Brandon working on the morning servicing.
We have had a few problems so far this week. We had to replace a feeder house drive chain and sprocket, and a couple cutterbar sections. Not bad at all. When you can keep those two 40-foot combines running, you can shave off several acres in a typical day.
We have finished off the 3.0 maturity soybeans and are now moving through the 3.3 maturity ones. If you remember, the planting season was an extended one, because of the frequent rains. We may catch up to fields that are not quite ready, and when we do, we will switch back over to harvest corn. The conditions will tell us what to do!
Have a great weekend.
