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Wasted crop?

Mike

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What's the point of farming beans when so many are left after harvest? I walked two edges of a 100 acre field and this is what it looked like. Lots of full pods too. uploadfromtaptalk1443890164114.jpguploadfromtaptalk1443890196154.jpg
 

RedCloud

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Wow. I agree with jesse. That guy needs a new machine because the guy that does our field doesn't miss a thing. The only stuff I find is from when the fill the trucks.
 

themedic

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Could also be the seed. Beans have been engineered to not split/break open but many still do in colder temps and very dry conditions. At least that's what Real World Wildlife seed company says.
 

giles

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This can also happen when the head speed is set too high. It will fling everything off the stem before it gets inside the head.

The temp has nothing to do with this...
 

nathan.luthman

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We farm with a 68 jd 4400... the firsf fifty feet we run in any field looks about like that until we adjust everything... not the combines fault at all...
 

motorbreaker

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Ya I love our farmers antique combine. I tried to tell him he needs to slow the cylinder speed down but he wont listen and I don't care. He leaves a lot of corn in the fields witch is ok with me.
 

Ohiosam

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Beans around here are pretty short this year. Makes it hard to get all the beans on the bottom of the plant. Even guys with late model combines are complaining about how many beans they are leaving in the field. One guy I was talking to Friday was complaining about all the volunteer beans coming up in his wheat.

Corn stalks are weak, a lot of disease issues. If corn isn't harvested quick you'll see lots of corn on the ground this winter.
 

"J"

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Beans around here are pretty short this year. Makes it hard to get all the beans on the bottom of the plant. Even guys with late model combines are complaining about how many beans they are leaving in the field. One guy I was talking to Friday was complaining about all the volunteer beans coming up in his wheat.

Corn stalks are weak, a lot of disease issues. If corn isn't harvested quick you'll see lots of corn on the ground this winter.

Looks like the critters are going too be eating good this winter.....