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jiminnd 
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Posted: 31 Oct 2024 at 7:20pm |
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Not mine, help my nephew who farms mine. Finished corn today, been a long month. Good crop in SE ND.
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captaindana
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Posted: 31 Oct 2024 at 7:40pm |
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Congrats I know that feeling!
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plummerscarin
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Posted: 31 Oct 2024 at 10:12pm |
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I'm not finished but I've never been this far along at this time of year either.
It's always a relief to be done yet I feel some sense of melancholy making that last pass in the combine. Crazy?
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Lars(wi)
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Posted: 01 Nov 2024 at 12:09am |
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Time now for fall tillage, get a jump on next spring.
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I tried to follow the science, but it was not there. I then followed the money, and that’s where I found the science.
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Posted: 01 Nov 2024 at 4:33am |
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PlummarscarinI feel hat same way finishing hay after that last wind row of every year!
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IBWD MIke
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Posted: 01 Nov 2024 at 8:46am |
 plummerscarin wrote:
I'm not finished but I've never been this far along at this time of year either.
It's always a relief to be done yet I feel some sense of melancholy making that last pass in the combine. Crazy? |
Yep, it's a crazy mixed emotion thing. Great to be getting done but don't want to quit running the combine either. Especially when it's working good like this year! I've been done for three weeks, combine is cleaned up and put to bed. That's a good feeling.
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dr p
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Posted: 01 Nov 2024 at 7:02pm |
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Still got corn to pick but as dry as it has been won't take long
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DanWi
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Posted: 04 Nov 2024 at 3:55am |
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Need about 1 good week here yet to finish hauling jobs and get my own done. Most of the people are done around here. Had a gal call the other day, they have around 50 acres, she was looking for an extra truck to haul. Rain forecast for Monday and Tuesday here and then more for the following weekend. Hope we can get more corn harvested and get done before deer hunting/ Thanksgiving week.
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plummerscarin
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Posted: 17 Nov 2024 at 8:42pm |
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plummerscarin
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Posted: 17 Nov 2024 at 8:47pm |
  All done!!
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IBWD MIke
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Posted: 18 Nov 2024 at 5:53am |
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Very nice, good feeling when done too!
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SLee(IA)
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Posted: 18 Nov 2024 at 3:18pm |
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Posted: 18 Nov 2024 at 5:38pm |
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Nice looking lineup.
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Posted: 18 Nov 2024 at 6:30pm |
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Love the picture of the Gleaner at sunset and the one of it punching through the field.
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Posted: 18 Nov 2024 at 6:46pm |
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The feeling of another harvest behind you is truly bitter sweet. We all have only so many harvests in us and each one is a count down. On the brighter side, it is such a relief when they are over. It’s like the smiles on the boys faces when they drive the cattle down Main Street of Belle Fourche in The Cowboys. “There’s nothing like bringing in the herd”.
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Posted: 18 Nov 2024 at 9:06pm |
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Beautiful pictures!!!!
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Pat the Plumber CIL
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Posted: 19 Nov 2024 at 7:37am |
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Nice pictures Plumbing Inspector. Beautiful lineup. Did the accountant take the pictures?
Edited by Pat the Plumber CIL - 19 Nov 2024 at 7:38am
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Posted: 19 Nov 2024 at 8:30am |
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All the years I was a hired hand, were on farming operations they were livestock based. When harvest was over, depending on the year, we may or may not have had the opportunity to ‘go thru’ all the harvest equipment. Some of us in the farming community were not able to ‘take the winter off & watch PornHub all day’. (wink, wink)
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I tried to follow the science, but it was not there. I then followed the money, and that’s where I found the science.
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plummerscarin
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Posted: 19 Nov 2024 at 12:28pm |
Pat the Plumber CIL wrote:
Nice pictures Plumbing Inspector. Beautiful lineup. Did the accountant take the pictures? |
The only one she took this year of equipment was the Gleaner splitting the field. Thanks for the comments
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Posted: 19 Nov 2024 at 12:44pm |
She took these a couple years ago  
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Posted: 19 Nov 2024 at 1:39pm |
What a mixed bag finishing harvest can be. Harvest is not as much pressure here in the land of do it tomorrow or manana in Mexican corrupted Spanish. In the old days small grain harvest could stretch for June to late September. But always looking for being done, but if your own acres always nice to have more crop to have more income, still waiting in the field.
To my days in the vineyard business of sit and wait, the acid level is to high be compared to sugar. Or high heat shuts down sugar production. And then the wine maker decides today is it.
Thanks for the pictures.
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plummerscarin
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Posted: 19 Nov 2024 at 1:57pm |
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Interesting what range of experiences we go through depending on area, crop, and weather. I figured weather had an impact on grapes but not to what extent
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dr p
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Posted: 19 Nov 2024 at 6:42pm |
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I think one of shameless last posts was how much he enjoyed combining corn, especially at night. Don't think he lasted much more after that final harvest
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Posted: 22 Nov 2024 at 5:58am |
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Finished yesterday. Cancelled thousands of dollars of dentistry to pick hundreds of dollars of corn. Finished fall tillage a week ago. Really no excuse not to be done this year with extremely dry weather. Only corn left on field are the guys who always combine in April
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Posted: 22 Nov 2024 at 6:15am |
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This passion to farm is kinda crazy ain't it. I'm confused. No fall tillage on corn ground?
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Posted: 22 Nov 2024 at 10:18am |
[QUOTE=plummerscarin]This passion to farm is kinda crazy ain't it.
Ant that the truth.
I have a good friend that has a premium dryland vineyard. Has always sold to multiple winemakers, even though it was small tonnage. He could because of how good it is.  With all you guys stopping your wine drinking. A very thin market for wine grapes this year, he left 10 ton to root. It has moved to English walnut harvest here, which he also has. The walnuts were a good money maker the last 20 years, at least the organic end. Durning the covid times the Chinese took the European organic market. So since then it has been a break even thing. This year the current price covers harvest cost. But the wholesaler has high hopes the price will go up. So on that hope my friend is picking walnuts. The wholesaler has become a friend to him and shared in years past. But still a thin hope to hang your year on to make a profit. As well as he is 74 years old already. But still enjoying the process of farming. |
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Posted: 22 Nov 2024 at 5:27pm |
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That is for sure. I made a profit last year farming and i thought my accountant was going to have a stroke. Had to do more with extra springing heifers to sell and no major purchases than with my ability. I don't do fall tillage on the corn ground i pick. That is where i spread the meadow dressing. I figure the stalks help with traction on those sloppy winter days.
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