Soybean
harvest saw a few breakdowns, but it was the
weather again this year that caused the most
headaches.
Winter
caught up with harvest again this year, and we
had to dry the last 1200 bushel of soybeans.
Corn
We
rebuilt the corn head before harvest this year
and also upgraded our drying system to this Farm
Fans AB12b automatic batch grain dryer.
Here
are a few shots of it working at night.
2017 Harvest
Soybeans
It
was a little wet during harvest. We harvested
335 acres of soybeans for ourselves and 260
acres for others. This year we added a Brent 470
grain cart to the operation.
Unfortunately
harvest was late this year and snow caught up to
us. We had to harvest half our soybeans while
they were too wet for storage and had to dry
them.
Corn
We
harvested 150
acres of corn,
and dried it to
15% moisture for
storage. As the
corn came off
the field it
ranged on
moisture from 19
to 26%.
Here a video tour of our grain bin and drying site.
2016 Harvest
Soybeans
We
harvested 320 acres of beans.
Corn
We
harvested 105
acres of corn,
and dried it to
15% moisture for
storage.
2015 Harvest
Soybeans
We
are unloading the last load of soybeans for the
night.
I installed new LED lights from Larsen Lights on
the combine for this year.
Corn
We
had to dry the
corn down from
about 19% to 15%
for storage.