Organic Corn Harvest 2020
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- čas přidán 4. 12. 2020
- Cleaning out the combine and getting ready for organic corn harvest. I show how the combine works and talk about drying organic corn. I also show disking down corn stalks
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Hey buddy I’m liking the video so keep up the good work
Thank you! It’s been a hectic year. Hope to be making more videos soon! Thanks for watching!
@@INOrganicFarmer anytime buddy
Hey, I just found your channel and enjoyed this video. Thanks for sharing good and not so good, lol! Were smaller organic croppers in PA.
Thanks for the comment! I appreciate your feedback! Organic is definitely a learning curve but I enjoy it!
That’s a GREAT First Year Organic Yield! Congrats! What Brand Seed and Number did you use, and what was The Final Planting/Seeding Population?
Thank you! This corn was Great Harvest Organics 55G3GH. It was planted at 34,000 population. I think I ended up with 32,000 final stand.
Dude how you know so much about everything? Not just the machinery but farming in general. Do you mind sharing what you studied and where? I ask because I’m new at farming and I learn so much from every single video you post. Thank you for teaching me so much.
Thank you for the kind words. I ask a lot of questions just like you! I have learned so much from talking with my farming neighbors. I also grew up on a farm. Learning from experience is the best way to learn! I never went to college but I did attend several organic conferences and field days when I started transitioning to organic.
You surely have your stuff nailed down. Thank you so much for been responsive as well. I see that you take your time to respond to all comments and that help everyone. Keep io the good work. You’re surely are my go to for my farming debut👍🏾
Don't feel bad, this will be the 1st year I'm not paying someone to dry my corn for me and storing some of it in ag bags. We're planting corn into a nice heavy mat of alfalfa mixed with my version of "gun slinger." Combined with being on 20's, the weed pressure is minimal. We will make a pass with the bug zapper and fry the weeds if something goes wrong, or in beans, if we get weeds in the rows, we'll hover mow the whole field and the beans will over take the weeds. I accidently found out that in areas where we accidently nicked the tops of the beans in a way that I thought was going to be a disaster, it actually spurred to plants to put all it's energy into growing pods. Those areas yielded the most! Maybe the shock put it into panic / reproduce mode, instead of growing more leaves? Their certainly is no industrialized one size fits all in organic farming is there?
Definitely not! I have tried to learn everything I can from the “experienced” organic growers. Sometimes what works for them doesn’t always work for me! That’s really interesting about the weed zapper! I am becoming a lot more interested in organic no-till. Thank you for watching!!
Just curious how many bushels of corn or soybean one of these bins can hold?
The smaller one will hold 3,200 bushels. The one I have corn in is a 6,500 bushel bin.
@@INOrganicFarmer For some reason I was under the impression that those bins would hold more corn than the grain bags. I read the specs of the Up North grain bag 12' x 300' could hold 23,000 bu of high moisture shell corn. My guess is that:
1. You don't need such a high capacity storage because you have a high turnover of corn in your bin (i.e., you sell off your harvest quickly).
2. You can better control the moisture level in the bins which is impossible in Ag Bags.
My question then: what is the best use for the Ag Bag grain bags?
These bins are 60+ years old. Back when these were built farmers didn’t need much storage. We’re still using them because I don’t have enough organic acres to justify building bigger ones. So far I’ve been able to store all my organic crops in these two bins. I usually haul everything out over the winter or early spring.
I don’t need the capacity of larger bins just yet.
You’re right about the moisture. Once you put the corn in the bag it better be dry or you better get it out quickly before it spoils. (January or February) If the bag gets a hole in it, the hole will let moisture in and spoil the corn. The other thing about a grain bag is, if you have it laying in the field, the ground will have to be dry or frozen to get semi trucks to it to haul it out.
Several years ago there were lot of grain bags used in this area. That only lasted a couple years and guys decided to build bins instead. Because of the reasons a mentioned above.
To answer your question:
In my opinion grain bags are for very short temporary storage. If the corn is coming out of the field at 16% - 17% it will store just fine until March possibly April. Any higher than that, I’d want it gone in January.
@@INOrganicFarmer 60 years! Holy cow, that's a good investment :-)