Harvest Progress

[Partners]

Looks like harvest progress might come to an end.
Anyone have a positive forecast till Oct 8th?
All I see is rain/snow with temps like Dec..

[fjlip]

Almost all Barley done in area, Oats majority done. Very little was dry. Wheat never gets dry, green second growths needs the FROST or 2 weeks heat. 16.5% best we saw, most 17-19. Canola just got dry, down over 3 weeks. Guessing guys are 30-40% done.

[blackpowder]

Peas mostly done. I am.
Barley started. I have none.
Some wheat coming off.
All cereals tough or damp.
My CPS got down to 15.5 Sunday.
So far looks like the driest wheat we'll take. 16.5 yesterday, rain last night.


Neighbor crushed under a swather last night. Slow down boys. Call Ritchie's not STARS. Screw the farm.

[rumrocks]

Wow, is the forecast ugly for here!

Annoying factoid.....

Weather is enough of a harvest impediment this year, then throw in an annoying small breakdown!

Squeeze harvest in in between the breaks from the crap weather and hope like hell there is no machinery breakdowns during those opportunities. It is so important on one combine farms. I usually look over the combine well in harvest down time but there is just some things you can't see or miss or impossible to predict.

Annoying is cheap and poor engineering. And having the problem being fixed or rectified with the same shit that failed.

It's too bad Oliver Wendall Holmes, the author of The Deacons Masterpiece, didn't teach some of these engineers how to design equipment for durability in all areas, instead of inflated sales at the parts counter. There isn't anything close to Deacon ---- shay engineering out there.

[pourfarmer]

Peas mostly done. I am.
Barley started. I have none.
Some wheat coming off.
All cereals tough or damp.
My CPS got down to 15.5 Sunday.
So far looks like the driest wheat we'll take. 16.5 yesterday, rain last night.


Neighbor crushed under a swather last night. Slow down boys. Call Ritchie's not STARS. Screw the farm.

Not to be a unsenstive prick, but how does that happen? Hydro creep? or Header fell?

[furrowtickler]

Peas mostly done. I am.
Barley started. I have none.
Some wheat coming off.
All cereals tough or damp.
My CPS got down to 15.5 Sunday.
So far looks like the driest wheat we'll take. 16.5 yesterday, rain last night.


Neighbor crushed under a swather last night. Slow down boys. Call Ritchie's not STARS. Screw the farm.

Sorry to hear , ya stress levels lead to bad things
I fractured two ribs the other day trying to get hopper extensions down on combine . Shoulda just left combine out in rain instead of rushing to put in shed while it was raining and every wet anyway . Now I am paying for that with every movement lol. Just praying I don’t sneeze too much now lol.
But that’s trivial compared to getting crushed by a swather .
Take care and stay safe .

[WiltonRanch]

It’s the shits to see guys getting hurt or killed at harvest or anytime for that matter. I’m not one to talk as the emergency room doctor and I are on a first name basis, but I have purposely made the effort to slow myself down cause I’m just too clumsy when I rush. Last night I was dumping grain and I rushed for a moment cause the rain was coming down and I hit my knee of the truck step. I’ve went all harvest without so much as bumping my head. I thought screw It take it easy and think.

Harvest progress on our ranch is 60% complete. All greenfeed, barley and wheat is off, oats 50%, and canola all out. Could have been on dry canola earlier but elevators taking tough #2 so why not. Barley was not worth talking about. Oats so far dry and decent yields. Some haven’t got much done and others not started. I consider myself fortunate to have gotten this far along.

[seldomseen]

Must be around 30% done. Peas done and half the wheat and nothing dry. Struggling with mud every day but that’s nothing when you here of accidents that cause untold pain! Please be safe everyone.

[seldomseen]

All the stress and struggles to bring in a crop that nobody seems to want. The industry just wants it for free and when they won’t pay the cost of production that's what makes it free.

[LEP]

Peas mostly done. I am.
Barley started. I have none.
Some wheat coming off.
All cereals tough or damp.
My CPS got down to 15.5 Sunday.
So far looks like the driest wheat we'll take. 16.5 yesterday, rain last night.


Neighbor crushed under a swather last night. Slow down boys. Call Ritchie's not STARS. Screw the farm.

The like was because of your comment, slow down, Call Ritchie's not Stars.