Harvest Update
Harvest is in full swing over here — and so is fall! As if we needed a reminder of the colder weather coming, most mornings we’ve been greeted by frost. Thankfully, it is late enough in the season that this won’t affect any of our crops or yields. Of course, earlier frosts can definitely hurt our crops, including soybeans.
But you definitely can’t beat the view from the combine!!
We have been switching between picking corn and picking soybeans. It really depends on which fields are ready and which crops needed to be dried in the grain bins. Dad has been getting up and leaving the house by 6:30am — even before the lawyer! — and hauling to the granary.
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| The view from the combine |
In the field, we’ve been dumping the full combine into the grain cart (pictured above is one of our smaller trucks, not the grain cart). Then the grain cart unloads into the semi-trailer. The semi either gets dumped in the grain bins for drying or it makes the trip down to the granary.
According to the Harvest map, the average yield for soybeans is 52 bushels per acre. For corn, it is around 155 bushels per acre. We’ll just say that not all of ours has been that good… the weather really didn’t cooperate this August. We needed more rain and a bit more heat.
So far we’ve harvested about 250 acres, with about left to go 600.
