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Post by daworz on Oct 30, 2009 11:57:54 GMT -5
Last night late i was driving home from hunting and saw more combines shelling corn, trying to beat this weather. I saw where some area's in the state were to recive more than 3" of Rain. And it seem that we get a couple day of dry weather then more rain. I not sure what the weather is suppose to tomorrow, I know nothing about farmering, but those combines probably have to have somewhat dry ground to shell? I see a few this morning shelling in light rain, but the ground was somewhat flatter. I drove back into a feild last night, and iam glad i had 4X4, It was pretty soft. So when it Rain and were mad, Think how mad the farmers are, Thats Money out there they need to harvested, to pay off seed bills. Just a Thought sorry to ramble, as i get the laundry done and dishes, and the dusting? so i can sit in the woods tomorrow...... Honey Do's
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Post by Hoosier Hunter on Oct 30, 2009 12:50:16 GMT -5
They were calling for heavy last night and today for here. We had a 30 minute shower yesterday at sunset and not a drop since. Seems to be going more north than east. I'm sure it'll be here soon enough tho.
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Post by mullis56 on Oct 30, 2009 13:14:34 GMT -5
I feel bad for our cash rent farmer!
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Post by DEERTRACKS on Oct 30, 2009 13:38:40 GMT -5
Not too bad for em around here except in the river bottoms.
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Post by Woody Williams on Oct 30, 2009 13:40:23 GMT -5
I did some walking around over at Dale Illinois on some property that Timex has. I was GPS marking stands for gun hunting later.
It was like walking thorugh bottom ground and this is not bottom ground. Water in places that was way over my ankles.
One small bean field close to one of the stands looked like a rice paddy.
The corn field that I was hunting on was picked quite some time back. The corn field next to us had not been picked and the farmer was there at 1 PM attempting to pick it. After I marked some stands I went back to hunt the picked cornfield and the farmer had pulled out. By the looks of it he had mired the tractor and combine down a couple times and the field where had picked was pretty well rutted up.
Yeah, there will be some corn and beans not picked for a long, long time.
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Post by ridgerunner on Oct 30, 2009 14:06:52 GMT -5
eah the corn we have out back here is long overdue and now is growing a black fungus,,,it's not gonna be worrth a crap...That corn should have been out a month ago, but it's been too wet..farmers keep waiting an hoping, but it almost too late.they're gonna lose thier butts this year...Maybe the Government will bail the farmers out...lol
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Post by freedomhunter on Oct 30, 2009 14:22:37 GMT -5
It is like gambling for a living.. some farmers round here are getting corn with 4 wheel drive tractors, 26% moisture or not, take the hit on drying or lose it
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Post by mullis56 on Oct 30, 2009 14:30:08 GMT -5
Freedom-true, true down where your talking about!
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Post by colts1888 on Oct 30, 2009 14:39:05 GMT -5
I was talking to the landowner where i hunt 2 weeks ago sunday. He told me at that time his corn was testing 20-30 percent moisture and he was going to give it 2 weeks. Over these 2 weeks, we have probably got 3 inches of rain and it's pouring here again right now. He may have been better off to just shell it back then. He works a regular job too so he might wanna take a vacation day or two and get to it during the week because the last few weekends have been wet. I think the early part of next week is looking dry. I really need that corn out, it's an absolute pain to hunt as i have no real access to look down into it, all i can do is stalk and the field is so thick you can't hardly see down the rows. It's a totally different property once that corn comes down.
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Post by jkd on Oct 30, 2009 15:39:04 GMT -5
We rent our crop ground, just raising cattle now, but farmer who rents it said Cargill Tipton put up a sign that they wouldn't take corn above 35% moisture... I'd never heard of corn being shelled at that moisture level before... I would think the kernels would get mashed being that soft... back in the day, you'd have gotten laughed out of the elevator bringing in 20%...
Daworz - nothing worse than a combine near fully loaded hitting a soft spot... they sink into the mud right now and no small chore to pull one out if it gets up to the frame... 4x4 only helps so much... places that get 2-3" will be done unless they're using tracked equipment...
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Post by hornharvester on Oct 30, 2009 17:21:03 GMT -5
I can remember back in the early 70's most farmers didn't get their crops out until February. There was so much rain when the ground froze ice formed like on lakes. Combines would break threw the ice and sink up to the frame. Some farmers were hiring helicopters to lift out the combines. A lot of the beans never got picked. h.h.
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Post by Woody Williams on Oct 30, 2009 18:24:50 GMT -5
Our local weather forecaster (Channel 14 in Evansville) said this is the 4th wettest October on record.
8.09 inches.
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Post by vectrix on Oct 30, 2009 18:47:33 GMT -5
I feel for the guys that have tried, especially south where it seems all the rain goes. What I see around here is alot of crops standing late, when the field down the road was cut weeks ago. Common sense would tell some of these guys that when the ears are dropped maybe cut it when you have a chance. I mean it's not like Indiana ever has a dry fall. 1 piece of property I hunt on has been ready for quite some time but was not cut when it could of been. Maybe alittle less time at the local diner and a few more behind the corn head and they wouldn't be swamped. I corn locally that is almost falling over, there is a fine line between not dry enough and rotting on the stalk.
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Post by wileyonetoo on Oct 30, 2009 18:49:58 GMT -5
Two days ago a local station said it had rained 16 of the 28 days of October. Still raining here in Hendricks county and forecasted through tomorrow morning. They are now saying another front is coming in Monday with more rain. Good thing for Gore-Tex.
I feel for the farmers. Wet spring and a wet fall.
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Post by lonniephillips on Oct 30, 2009 20:44:56 GMT -5
yeah yeah yeah poor ol' farmers, they can't hardly make it on their in come hell you hear that when the the crops are great and the prices are high
they sure all drive new trucks and million dollor equipment and live in hugh houses and go on long vacations in the winter and summer did some one say government subsidy? oh yeah a few hundered thousand here and there to help pay the bills never hurt crop insurance? hmmm that never hurt either , they they can still harvest and sale anything left lol!
poor 'ol farmers alright
most of them couldn't make it having to work 8 plus hours a day 50 weeks a year and having to work some holidays and weekends
farmers don't have it as bad as you might think
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Post by mullis56 on Oct 30, 2009 20:54:37 GMT -5
Lonniephillips - it is safe to say you have NEVER farmed, as you don't respect it! I could implode your thought process but it isn't worth the time to start a war with someone who just sees the equipment and trucks not all that goes with the life of being a farmer, let alone says they couldn't work 40 hours a week for 50 weeks! Your lost
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Post by lonniephillips on Oct 31, 2009 4:12:20 GMT -5
Mullins56 , i have worked for many farmers over the years. Have I ever farmed myself? no I have several good friends who are life long farmers I do know about farmers Mullis56
Sorry if I upset you but thats my opinion and you know what they say about those.
guess they might put in more than 40 hours a week in Oct and Nov and April and May (if they grain farm only) which most do and after that drink coffee and piddle in the shop at least all the large grain farmers i know do
respect? that has nothing to do with my post I simply stated that poor 'ol farmers don't have it as bad as you think sure some might have it horrible as do some regular working folks but the majority we are talking about besides if it's that bad why keep doing it? just sale out and get a normal job somewhere working 7 to 4 or whatever if thats what it takes
when does a framer ever have it good? do we ever see them say "oh this was a great year" I'm just saying
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Post by tobias on Oct 31, 2009 5:45:35 GMT -5
There's way too many different situations involved in farming to compare any of it. It's nothing but farm ground around me and I know several farmers. I keep hearing about the flooding and moisture content........sure that's bad for farmers. What about the insurance companies that have to pay for grain that gets flooded? Nobody every wants to mention that 99% of the "big farmers" have their crops insured. I always wondered why farmers would plant the same field every year knowing it's gonna get flooded untill I found out they make more off that field when it does flood than when it don't. They'll get compensated for the lost crop in the spring floods then turn around and replant.
I'm not takin any side on this one, but there's awhole lot involved and many different types of farming.
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Post by ridgerunner on Nov 1, 2009 10:09:18 GMT -5
I agree Lonnie...worked for farmer myself in the past..You'd be surprised how much they are subsidized by our government...and you're right about making more claiming a loss on crops than pciking it.....most pick it and cash the insurance check for loss...double dipping..yeah poor ole' farmers....barely making it...lol
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Post by mullis56 on Nov 1, 2009 10:18:37 GMT -5
You guys miss the point...picture this all the time and effort preparing, planting, maintaining and then it gets too wet to harvest it is a disappointment both mentally and on the wallet. I guess maybe I just have sympathy with everyone, and you guys don't?
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