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$200 Straw Bale!

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brandinspector

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Was out crop adjusting yesterday, and ran across this little misfortune. Looks like the monitor wasn't communicating very clearly with the operator.

I've wondered if something like this could happen, but never have seen it. The rest of the bales in the field look fine. I've spent a fair amount of time running the same baler (JD 567), and have yet to have this problem. Hope my times not a coming.

At least with the twine, you can actually see that there is a problem. Nothing but the monitor to let you know of a problem with the net wrap.
 
I was wondering about that picture on the first page. Now that I've seen it .... Oh, my!!!!! Wouldn't that be fun to try and feed!
 
I can't stand netwrap... More and more folks are switching to it but man is it a mess. I wish they could come up with one that was remotely biodegradable.. Love using sisel twine personally but we have some problems with that too. Bottom tends to rott out. NOt a big deal for hay but for conrstalk bales it can be a problem.
 
brandinspector said:
Was out crop adjusting yesterday, and ran across this little misfortune.

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brandinspector-- Are you keeping busy over there in Dakota with the adjusting? Lots of crop insurance going to be paid around here...Lot of wheat crops that normally have around a 25+ bushel average that are running under 10...But at least this year they have protein- but are losing any protein premiums to low weight :roll: Can't win for losing...
 
25 bushel wheat is average? I never really payed attention to the crop yields while we were out in Montana... Of course, I know nothing about wheat so maybe I should just zip it :oops: I know our neighbor got 100+ this year and should have got more but didn't run his irrigator for some reason.
 
IL Rancher said:
25 bushel wheat is average? I never really payed attention to the crop yields while we were out in Montana... Of course, I know nothing about wheat so maybe I should just zip it :oops: I know our neighbor got 100+ this year and should have got more but didn't run his irrigator for some reason.
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Actually I think our county average is 22.5- almost all dryland....Another reason I always say the ancestors should have left this country in grass- too much rocks and sand...Best spring wheat crop I've heard of this year around here was a fella that got 35- he hit a couple of the later thunder showers and some of that was on irrigated bottomland, too... A couple of winter wheat guys claim they got 40 on some really good ground...

It was looking like a great crop year- until it dryed up and we didn't get a drop of substantial moisture from June 10 on... Sure took a toll on the pastures too....

You get further west over toward Great Falls, Havre and that Golden Triangle area and they have a much higher average...They seem like they're whining if they're not getting a 50+ bushel crop every year.....
 
I will fully admit we are generally spoiled here with good precip and high soil fertility. Not to many folks grow poverty grass around here anymore but in recent years there has been some interest again. No one grows barley anymore but most folks who grow wheat or Oats get 100 bushel yields the last I heard. We grew a nurse crop of oats 5 years back and I think it was estimated by the county at 110+ bushels but that was at soft fough so chances are we would have lost some as it dried down..

Of course this is why crop ground is going at 4000 an acre right now or 5000 if there is any possibility of growing houses on it sometime in the enxt 10 years.. The land around Chicago that is still farm ground... Shoot, a 40 acre field could be woth 4 million in the right area... Scary.

This area used to be a huge wheat area back in the olden days before corn yields exploded.. Now beans are also slipping to the wayside around here as their yields just haven't kept up with corn yields.
 
Hey Oldtimer. Farmers raised a pretty good early crop around here on not a lot of moisture. 40-50 Bu. wheat, 70-85 bu. barley, 12-1800#Canola. I even think the maltsters are going to have a hard time finding a reason to reject the barley production this year. Amazing!

Interesting note on the wheat protein. Saw high protein levels around here and buyers were actually discounting for too much protein. Wow!

Not too much work for an adjuster, so good for most everybody so far. Looks like the late season crops are going to be keeping the adjusters busy. Just haven't been getting rains. Going to see spotty average yields in those late crops as spotty rains seem to have been the norm, but expect a lot of losses on the crop insurance side of things. Late crops around here are sunflowers, corn, soybeans and dry beans.

IL Rancher, I agree with you, netwrap can be a pain. Sure do like it though when I need to get some baling done in a hurry. 11 seconds to wrap and just a bit more to dump one. Made the decision a couple years back to feed these netwrapped bales to the cows through a bale processor. I think they do end up consuming some of the small pieces that the processor doesn't remove. Hoping we don't end up with a bunch of cows tipping over cause their guts quit working. Anybody seen any problems with this out there?

Gotta get some sleep, have a great day planned tomorrow. Gonna go doctor some footrot/pinkeye on the prairie with neighbor and our kids.
 
OT,

Crops around here are yielding below normal and bushel weights are below normal. We were combining barley yesterday and I think even chickens would turn their beaks up at it :roll: , it was light 46 lbs to what we normally grow. Hard to keep it in the combine without blowing it over the back...... :roll:
 
That's what passes for tumbleweeds in our country is balls of net wrap and silage plastic blowing all over the place. I hate that crap try to avoid buying net wrapped hay if at all possible.
 

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