re: A few wheat harvest photos

do you happen to have a pic of your combine monitor when in the clover? Would be interested to see the difference in fan speed and concaves

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Ours was delayed last fall because we were late getting the cotton off of the fields. The fields in our are that were planted on time made 100 bu

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Yeah I grew up in a custom harvesting family, so wheat has always been special to me. I loved growing it a few years ago. It was pretty simple.

Disk twice
Spread it with a plane
Cover it with do all’s

I’d spend a few days in the winter on a steel wheel tractor and the plane did the rest until harvest.

We were growing it on rolling delta buckshot under pivots. As long as it drained, 70-80 was pretty solid, but poor drainage would be a killer. It would go from 80 to less than 30 quick if I missed a water furrow.

But my understanding is y’all are pretty intense managers of wheat over there, and are shooting for 100-110.

Personally, I’d rank laying off the first set in a big wheat field up there with picking 3 bale cotton.

He hauls our grain on occasion. He is a good guy.

I love these posts also. There were a bunch of rice farmers in my mom's (long departed) family in the early to mid 20th century and when I think about them, I have respect for them. But all their progeny closest to my mom got out of the business or their kids moved on to something else. But I always look at a truck load of harvested grain in awe as the cumulative total of those will be your years income. This at times seems tenuous. You have my admiration. Kudos!

We primarily did white clover, with a little red. Never messed with crimson. Also did rye grass and millet at times. We still have all the old seed cleaners in a big warehouse but separating the dirt (from fire ant mounds) out of the seed became too costly as labor and electricity prices went up at a higher rate than the seed prices. Back in the hay day, we ran a crew of 50 plus men during harvest and cleaning season. Would process up to 100,000 lbs of white clover seed alone, and bale over 50,000 square bales of straw off of it. Now we run approx 3k of the place in corn,beans, and wheat, sorghum, or cotton when prices cooperate and then run about 1000 momma cows on the other 3500. Never a dull moment as you can imagine. Just was intrigued with your clover harvest as it brought back memories or yesteryear

What county are you farming in High Cotton?

you store it or sell it to one of the bigger facilities?

We do temporary grain storage tarps for Gavilon, CGB and ADM mostly. Have done business with Tyson and Cargill and did 2 shelter buildings for Scoular in Iowa. Small world

Are y’all seeing a lot of quail in your fields? Do pheasant show up that far south?

The massive pods you’ll see around. Big piles of grain with plastic laid over the top.