Are your beans ready for harvest or are you done??

Did all your corn black layer???

We have done zero. Beans or corn

Still have one bin to empty out, plus sweepings off the floor of another bin. [down to the sweep auger on the last bin, which is part way around[but it is an 80,000 bu bin so a lot is left for the sweep auger]. A hog farmer ordered another 6k of corn, and we sold another 5 k for this month delivery  We also need to add up all our deliveries to see if we are over or under on all those contracts, so we shall see how small the pile is once we meet our commitments of old crop corn sales. Anything left will be sold on the spot market price. Should keep one person busy for most of the week, doing paper work and deliver the corn. Have you ever tried to guess how many bu left once the sweep auger starts?? This is only the second yr for this bin and we did not empty it last yr. So we have to guess with everybody having a different number of guess the bu left, sweep stakes. We know what the combine says but with some left over from last yr, how close do you trust the combine over two yrs of corn. All you need is some 14.5% moisture corn delivered and there goes a bunch of bu.

Beans just got ready and then rain every 3 days this past week or longer

Corn black layered this past week but some early corn  just gave up I think, due to dry conditions.

We were very dry last 4-5 weeks with almost zero rain, and now it has to rain, once the damge is done.

Plants just died and turned brown. Ears are hanging down, so water won't accumulate in husk

However, a few thought they could do corn but moistrue is 35% so we hope the corn will dry at a normal rate

A couple started beans, got a day and then it rained

I have another 60 plus acres of tile drains left from the tile plow to level on heavy clay ground. This is ground after sweet corn harvest. 3.3 MPH is top speed due to how rough the lumps are on the tractor and me. I will need to do the tile runs at least twice and then we hope to rip it, to finish levelling the soil. Just hope we can rip with out too many stones as this ground has some stony spots. I will have to wait for the greasy clay surface to dry up before starting but the rain should soften the lumps a bit

Dry when we need rain, now it rains when we don't need any rain.

The joys of farming

Got another shot of rain last nite, dumped 1 1/2 plus out of the gauge for the past week.