October 1st Harvest Daily Vlog

no farm invoice [Music] kids are off on the bus I checked oil in all the trucks now I got a sample of grain right out of the bin I grabbed some corn I'm gonna take it to the elevator and have them test it just to make sure our test weighted moisture is coming out accurately 15 percent and unfortunately it's a little bit light at 53 pound test weight but that's what we were getting for a reading anyway so our stuff is accurate what is that thing look at that shiny ride grain cart is empty dumped into the truck now it's time to put some diesel in the big boy [Music] boys like that so we got everything filled up and the dryer ran out of wet corn which is a good thing but it was poor timing we had everybody out of the field and and ready to go and then I had to run back in the truck with Jim get the dryer going we got that going he's in front of me with the empty truck dan stayed down took some end rows off by himself without a green card driver so we're a little bit short-handed but it's early we're not in the full-fledged harvest yet so I'm sipping down there now probably hopping the Challenger and jump in the grain garden and checking out our grain market sector this morning Chicago December 18 corn 363 up 6 and 3/4 November 18 Chicago soybeans 859 and 1/4 up 13 and 3/4 got a harvest corn got a harvest corn another day a harvest looking awfully dark to the west I got the foot pedal working on this challenger now so basically it's hard for me to talk to the camera because somebody's always got something to say to me so as I was saying I turned my foot pedal mode on over here it's a little bit bouncy but guys I'm doing like 14 miles per hour across the field trying to catch up to the combine and I'm driving this thing just like a car I can speed up and slow down just like this pretty slick we've got a little bit of rain coming down - that makes me feel better about going on corn rather than trying to get soybeans out so I get to the end here step on my pedal and we're gone out of his way so for those understand the purpose of the grain cart which is what I'm driving right now my job is to chase the combine around the field and take the take the corn on the go so that the combine never has to stop without a grain cart the combine has to stop on the end of the field and unload itself into the semis which would probably take about half the time of of the combine being out here and so it's just a lot more efficient wait does take another tractor it takes a grain cart it takes another guy but in the environment we're in where it could literally snow any day in fact it's no two or three days ago it's important that we get our crops off the field when they're ready to go pretty much everybody around here runs a grain cart if you have any number of acres that you've got to get across just to help speed things up before the weather comes down for the winter so we've added a little bit of sprinkle here you can see it picking up on the tracks okay wet in the header there - horn doesn't soak up the moisture the way that soybeans do so that is not a big concern to us the concern is the silk that hangs from the ears of corn going through the machine will get stinky and it will stick in the back of the sibs if you guys have watched my harvest videos from last year you'll see that we struggled with that quite a bit it will go for quite a while until that silk gets to a certain point and then once that silk gets to a certain point it will just stick in there there's nothing we can do we've just gotta quit harvesting and let the let the silks and the let the plants dry up so you can see dad out there right now that's what he's doing is checking those sips to make sure that we're not losing any grain out the back and off we go that's a full truck potty break the outhouse go hey air it is was not released an autopsy is playing well that header looks way better than I thought it did look at him sprinkling corn all over the Challenger on the ground and see what the synth looked like because it's wetter out here than it thought it was but now it looks like it's gonna quit and actually the Sun might be coming out you can see where the dark stuff moving off to the east so we'll see what we got here [Music] will you drive right with me well the sips don't look too bad sips look good actually and the ground doesn't look too bad at all we're actually coming up to Jim so he's the only one running the truck right now we got two trucks full on that end and the grain carts full here so we're just gonna hold the bus run down there each grab a truck and bring them home take a look at the dryer make sure everything's going good there and then we'll help catch Jim up then we'll see if maybe the Sun will come out and things will start drying or not here so here's our channel extend soybean plot you can see the beans are getting really close to ready we have that light freeze and now we're gonna have some dry days once the rain goes away anyway and I think I think all the soybeans in the county are probably going to be ready to go in a few days it's a pretty odd year around here most of the time everybody just takes off soybeans first and then once you're done with soybeans you switch over to corn and everybody takes that this year it's not like that we we've taken out 60 acres of soybeans and now we're up to 110 acres of corn everybody's switching back and forth nobody knows what to do the beans are slow in the corners early it's highly unusual for us to have started corn in September especially when we don't have hardly anything for beans off so it's weird but we'll take a week in as long as the combine is moving that's what matters landlord on this field has got some cattle he'd like to get out here and bail up some corn stocks unfortunately the weather is not going to allow that right now well the dryers running that's good news looks like they probably had a little bit more rain and sprinkles here than we had at the field first thing to check moisture it's telling me 15.3 coming out of the back of the dryer I'm gonna go check for myself coming out buddy all good guys I'm driving 17 to 18 miles per hour across the field with an empty cart on a track tractor this is ridiculous she's smooth that's what I'm saying there you can see the headers gotten a lot drier we're just taking some point rows here on the headlands so that's why he's not taking a full swath but everything's gotten a lot drier dad got a little bit ballsy he decided he's going to take the Challenger and he's going to give me the big green machine the first cornfield is out this was a hundred and thirteen acre field we got this finished up now we got 100 acres right over there that we're going to move to and start on and hopefully get a bunch of that done today we'll see how everything goes we head over to early that other hangers done there and get 85-acre done and end up being fuel that son-of-a-gun already kicked me out of the combine well now I get to drive this really opener in screwed up in equipment and I'm sorry I get to go combining again hi girls you're gonna come with me all right I'll are you feeling better after your fall the other they had a doctor's appointment today and the doctor said so we brought her in here got her all the way up in the compound corn clear down there all kinds of cork I like to call this chaos in there it is start to go by the way though isn't it Oh Eila forgot our cookies I got a feeling they're not gonna make it through the night so this corn it looks healthier quite healing is good at the other we plant here was planned different varieties in the same planter you can see there the blue and the orange here on my field view app is showing the two different varieties I've got a channel variety 92 day and a Gold Country 95 day here against each other if I go up here to my harvest summary actually shows me the channel 190 207 over the gold country 95 33 they're about three bushels apart right now the moisture on up is really really close so that's one really nice thing about field view there's a hundred nice things for you being able to watch the numbers like this and see and especially at night because it it just looks cool [Music] well that's it the trucks are full the grain carts full the combines about empty we're gonna take these full trucks home and leave the green card here we're out of room the holding tank is full everything's full you try a dually up in the field and then lock it and pull the gear yeah the dryers gonna run all night we'll be back at it again tomorrow [Music] [Applause] looks good enough for me I'm gonna go take a nap now dad's gonna come back at midnight and check over everything I'll be back at 3:00 then we'll meet up here in the morning [Music] time for the 3:00 a.m. check 3:00 a.m. check looks good to me back to it

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Length: 13min 25sec (805 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 03 2018