After Thursday's inch and seven-tenths in a half an hour, the wind blew down all the corn tops in one field. Even though it is still too wet to store, it's time to start picking. Good thing our new bin has the ability to dry it down and store it safely.
As you can tell, it's not that bad because you can still row it, but since it is nonGMO corn the bugs have compromised the corn stocks integrety. NonGMO means not genetically modified. Besides for keeping weed and insect resistance down, it gets a higher premium at the elevator. On the negative side bugs burrow in.
Corn yeilds are much better this year, which means the combine fills up quicker and more semi loads to haul. It also means we will be hauling more to the elevator this fall once the bins fill up. As supply and demand goes, though, that means lower prices. Currently we are getting half the price per bushel as last year. Later this winter or in early spring, prices should rebound a little.
The first of many beautiful sunsets in the field. Four hopper fulls equals a full semi.
Grain flows from the hopper on the bottom of the trailer to an auger that takes it up to the top of the bin. The tractor runs the PTO, power take-off, that turns the auger.
My job was to climb to the top to make sure the auger was hitting the spreader evenly. Since I climbed all the way up, I might as well snap a shot.
Later on, the sun goes down on another day. From the top of the bin you can see the cows cleaning up the corn we left behind. The field in the distance we finished last week so we could put in some dry-dams to hold back rain water and make more ground farmable.
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