Posted by JD Seller on November 16, 2015 at 21:49:19 from (208.126.198.123):
Well the harvest is finally fully done. The boys finished up yesterday with all the combining and we finished baling Friday. These numbers include a lot of custom acres. I just finished up the totals on the baling tonight.
Corn harvested/shelled 3960 acres Soybeans harvest/cut 3240 acres Round Bales of hay baled 3270 bales Round bales of corn stalks 21623 bales
All the bins on the farm are completely full and still had to ship some to market to finish harvesting. The upright silos are full plus 16- 300 ft. x 10 ft. bags. This is hayledge and corn silage both. The cattle yards are full including the rented farms.
Now for things still to do this fall: 1) Finish spreading manure. 2) Finish applying P&K on next year's corn ground. 3) Have lime applied on next year's soybean ground 4) Hit the fall tillage hard to get done before frozen ground. There was a 20 bushel yield bump on the fall tillage this year. The fall tilled ground handled the wet early weather better. Just better water infiltration. 5) Move all the cows to the winter pastures that are closer to the house and feed yards. We feed them on a gravel area that has ground fabric under the gravel. We installed that 3-4 years ago and it has worked great.
Side note: Grand Daughter made 4386 bales her first year of running a round baler. (Wrote her check out just a few minutes ago) So she made a little over $2K to go towards her college fund and her horse hobble expense. (Family rule is that she saves 50% for long term stuff and can use the other 50% of her earned money as she wants. This is not a bad income for a 14 year old girl. Much better than working slinging burgers. She will gain some more as she was running the deep ripper Sunday. I had time to show her how to run it. So she can at least run it after school so Her Dad/my son can do evening chores. She will get paid by the acre once again. So another generation is in training. I have two grand Sons that will be 13 and 14 next year an they will start doing more field chores independently. They both raked hay and ran the hay tedder this year.
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