Posted by Fixerupper on October 19, 2012 at 18:01:32 from (100.42.82.164):
In Reply to: Corn harvest mess posted by Old Ford Mechanic on October 19, 2012 at 11:10:16:
Was the corn down when they harvested it? Can't tell very well by the pic but it looks like the corn was going out the back and the chopper was spreading it. We actually had volunteer corn coming up here in Iowa this fall with our early harvest. It really did a good job of telling me who knows how to adjust a combine and who doesn't when I was driving by their harvested fields. We also had some down corn and those areas were green as grass a few days after a warm rain. I don't think I've ever seen vounteer corn like that in the fall here in NWIA.
I've been holding back on commenting about BTO's but here goes. First of all, how many acres does it take to make a farmer a BTO? Most, not all, but most BTO's are pretty darned good farmers. The sloppy ones aren't BTO's for long. Today you just can't do a sloppy job of farming and survive. In my neighborhood there are five of them that I can think of, and all of them are above average operators. The biggest one is so picky they follow their two 24 row planters with a four wheeler to catch any slight problem. When fertilizer is spread the boss is out there stepping off the swath to be sure it's spread evenly. Landlords call them, asking them to farm their land. All five of these BTO's are kind of arrogant and hard to deal with, it just seems to be their nature. They are very competitive and are in a kind of informal competition with each other, but the competition isn't about speed or how fast they can farm. It's about quality of the job they are doing. I see many more small farmers with maladjusted combines than I do with the BTO's. Jim
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