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Pat the Plumber CIL 
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 Topic: Bushhogging after soybean harvest
Posted: 27 Sep 2017 at 10:37pm |
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I have seen several farmers out running their batwing mowers over the soybean stubble after combining . ??? Now when I was a youngin I ran the 172 over the cornstalks before plowing but why the soybean ground .Is it for tillage or for anhydrous application ?
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shameless dude
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Posted: 27 Sep 2017 at 10:52pm |
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they don't want the neighbors seeing all the bean stalks their green machines left uncut! saw a field yesterday, the stalks were 3-4 inches tall after harvest, and bent over, most had 1 or 2 pods still on the stalk. (brand spankin new green combine), told me that they were going to fast combining.
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JoeO(CMO)
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Posted: 28 Sep 2017 at 3:01am |
 shameless dude wrote:
they don't want the neighbors seeing all the bean stalks their green machines left uncut! saw a field yesterday, the stalks were 3-4 inches tall after harvest, and bent over, most had 1 or 2 pods still on the stalk. (brand spankin new green combine), told me that they were going to fast combining. |
I've seen this too! Combine drivers as opposed to operator's, buy it helps the wildlife
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jaybmiller
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Posted: 28 Sep 2017 at 6:16am |
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I know is that if you chop up a 'left over' crop, the 'remains' will compost faster,so the good stuff gets into the ground sooner.
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Tbone95
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Posted: 28 Sep 2017 at 6:28am |
jaybmiller wrote:
I know is that if you chop up a 'left over' crop, the 'remains' will compost faster,so the good stuff gets into the ground sooner.
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Yes, but a soybean field should have been shaved right down to the ground. I can't, I don't have a flex head yet... Another possibility is the straw chopper wasn't working, or they don't have one, and they're hoping to "suck it up" and mulch it a little.
Edited by Tbone95 - 28 Sep 2017 at 6:57am
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victoryallis
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Posted: 28 Sep 2017 at 6:52am |
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When we had the K I ran the stalk chopper over the straw windrows so we could no till wheat. Now with the R52 and 62 the residue ground to nothing by the combine.
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shameless dude
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Posted: 28 Sep 2017 at 7:44am |
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my best combine for shaving the ground was my little "K" combine with a 13 ft head. even better than the bigger combine I have now, and it still beats the big green ones to this day that leave crop in the fields. a lot still has to do with...operators hafta slow down! i'm waiting to see the ones that planted Pioneer bean seed around here this year, as most of those plants have laid down, we'll see if the combiners slow down to get the crop in, or just go over and leave a lot of them in the fields. last Pioneer I planted went down 20 years ago, I remember combining one way, then driving back to the other end of the field and combining back that one way, took along time, but was able to get most of the crop in thru the combine! most won't take the time to do that!
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Posted: 28 Sep 2017 at 7:53am |
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I remember about 25 years ago, I called a neighbor and asked him if I could go out in his bean field and re-combine it for the grain? he asked why and I told him his renter had left a lot out there after he combined it! he called me back and said have at it! and I took the "K" out there and got 2 big gravity flow wagons full of soybeans! man was that owner PO'd! then I got a call from his renter and he cussed me big time! that renter lost that ground after that! he was a big green farmer and just couldn't slow down, he knocked over a lot of beans, and that's what I went in a combined out!
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Posted: 28 Sep 2017 at 8:00am |
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We roll the field after planting and run the head right on the ground at harvest. theres nothing left behind us and we use a JD 7720 with 25ft flex head. the JD will do a good job if you dont try raceing to the other end of the field. We do have to adjust the combine when ever we change crops if you leave it set for corn itll spread alot of beans out the back. the straw chopper does a real good job but its a pain to remove and install.
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Tbone95
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Posted: 28 Sep 2017 at 8:45am |
shameless dude wrote:
I remember about 25 years ago, I called a neighbor and asked him if I could go out in his bean field and re-combine it for the grain? he asked why and I told him his renter had left a lot out there after he combined it! he called me back and said have at it! and I took the "K" out there and got 2 big gravity flow wagons full of soybeans! man was that owner PO'd! then I got a call from his renter and he cussed me big time! that renter lost that ground after that! he was a big green farmer and just couldn't slow down, he knocked over a lot of beans, and that's what I went in a combined out! |
Doesn't mean much without acres of the field...
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Posted: 28 Sep 2017 at 11:24am |
Dakota Dave wrote:
We roll the field after planting and run the head right on the ground at harvest. theres nothing left behind us and we use a JD 7720 with 25ft flex head. the JD will do a good job if you dont try raceing to the other end of the field. We do have to adjust the combine when ever we change crops if you leave it set for corn itll spread alot of beans out the back. the straw chopper does a real good job but its a pain to remove and install. |
Why remove the straw chopper?
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Posted: 28 Sep 2017 at 6:52pm |
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It Isn't the color of the machine but the operator. Some like to slide the chopper forward to make a windrow to bale the residue. But I'll tell you this heavy bean residue can bother a anhydrous machine when its damp after being chopped & spread.
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