The Great Grain Robbery part 2

[bucket]

I treat storage as a sunk cost, sort of like your combine sitting in the shed all winter. We have enough on our farm to hold an entire yr and its all be paid for 10 yrs ago.

Growing up dad never sold a bushel off the combine cause he had other income to to hold him over until the new year. I remember him selling old crop last few days in July on the old PROs because they would always be lower for August. Maybe that where my marketing strategy came from.

Note we arent looking for big gains from this but typically you can get 50-75c a bushel on most crops pretty easy. Makes a difference on our place.

Your dad delivered in July....chances are the contract was signed long before that...and I think you had to deliver on that contract according to acceptance levels ....because if you tried to push it into the new year without filling your previous years contract they would look into it.

[jazz]

Your being played farmers.

Cant the wifi in those machines be disabled? So you get the data but nobody else does?

That would be the first thing I would be asking the service dept.

[foragefarmer]

Sk3


Tweety was posting about yield information off combines being sold a couple of years ago on here.

He knew this was happening and warned us.

Tech information doesn't keep secrets, it's out there for everyone, grain companies included.

[farming101]

1. Calibrate yield monitor
2. Reset yield monitor to be out by any factor you want
3. Write down factor on a piece of paper
4. After harvest take out dollar store calculator and use to retrieve actual yield data

[bucket]

1. Calibrate yield monitor
2. Reset yield monitor to be out by any factor you want
3. Write down factor on a piece of paper
4. After harvest take out dollar store calculator and use to retrieve actual yield data

Or use the elevator scale to determine real yields and smile on the way home with a cheque because thats all that matters at the end of the day...

Once i got comfortable combining and bored ...I would change the width of my header on the screen and send the pictures to the neighbours....then wait a few days....

Technology is only as smart as what it is programmed into it....garbage in garbage out...