Combines notill beans

[Steve_from_Tn]

I have not cut my notills yet. They will not drop there green leaves and have alot of green pods with next to nothing in them. I finished cutting a farm in the Miss. River flood plain that got next to no rain. They averaged 20.22 bpa. last year my drought was worse than this years, but the temp during bloom stage was 105 F this year. The farm that I moved to this afternoon got a pretty good shower in July. They seem to be better than the farm that I just left. It has some sand blows on it that are awful. I'm hoping to cut 30 bpa on this farm. I expect my notills to cut 10-12 bushels. I have to cut them regardless of the yield. After last year, I said that this year had to be better. Wrong!

 

[Dave]

I have stopped saying "next year will be better". Seems that does not always work. The frost killed our notill beans, but the were very short and would not have made much. The amount of damage in them just will not allow any thing to be made by cutting. The load we cut had 50% damage, so they only pay for half, and half of not much is nothing. I can not pay for the fuel to cut them.

 

[Curt]

We got our beans in real late this year cause it just wouldn't stop raining, and when we finally did the tractor blew out a rear tire on a friday evening no less, while I was drilling the first of our beans. I was really worried they wouldn't make anything, because the news reporters kept predicting frost that never came thank goodness. Needless to say they will make something but they didn't get finished growing a day too soon. I agree though Dave next year has to be better! We run a very very small amount of land due to renters selling the farms off in lots, so I knew it was a bad year when we couldn't get our beans in at a reasonable time. Curt

 

[The_Red]

We just completed our 9th. season in no till soybeans in East Central Indiana. The early plantings yielded betweeen 45-55. The replants were running 35-40. The beans planted after June 30 wheat harvest were running 15. The beans interseeded with winter wheat were mixed. 20 bpa on the encapsulated beans, and 30 on the Countrymark 381 STS. On the 700 acres of no till beans, we went half and half with the 381 STS and 331 STS. The 381's ran a good 10 bpa better. The 331's stalks had a lay down problem and were difficult to cut.

 

[jeff]

10 bu seems to be the norm here in southeast Kansas. Alot of frost damage and just as much drought damaged green beans. They just couldn't take 6 weeks of 105 highs. every thing except a muddy harvest has gone bad for the beans (forcast is rain for 2 days and its to wet to sow wheat right now). Next year will be betterIJ