Posted by billonthefarm on January 13, 2010 at 19:19:20 from (98.108.64.166):
I know some of us were worried about and it came true, the harvest of 2010 starts in January. We harvested our first corn in october so this is our 4th month harvesting here in central IL. Quite a bit of corn still to harvest and more disappears everyday. The snow is about 10" deep everywhere in the fields a there are drifts in places that are too deep to pick in. Corn is still good quality and standing for the most part. A few of us got together to work on finishing up a neighbor. Our handicap here is he is on wide rows and there is very little wide row equipment left here.
This is my neighbor, as good a guy as there is anywhere. Like everyone else its been a tough fall for him. Wet corn, a big combine break down at a bad time and that has left him with a couple hundred acres of corn. Notice how much snow is in the rear tires.
Any place the corn isnt protected from the wind it is full of snow and must be left. At the same time it isnt frozen as much as you would think and occasionally we find a muddy spot.
None of us have ever picked in conditions like this. It is harder to get around in this snow than you would think. It hides any washed out spots and field entrances. We are using grain carts and loading semis on the roads. Yesterday the county road grader had to wait on me to get done unloading so he could continue to push snow back off the road. We are running three combines, three grain carts and two semis. We are getting about 70 acres a day as nothing works quite the way it should in this weather and the elevators are still pretty busy and the dryers are having touble keeping up still at this late date. While sitting in the field today I could see three other farmer picking corn. I'm sure I could have drove around and found three or four more. One more good day and we could finish. We will be talking about the 2009 crop season for generations to come. bill
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