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Topic: combine adjustment

Posted By: ac hunter
Subject: combine adjustment
Date Posted: 07 Oct 2025 at 10:21am

Seems like almost every year I see a few really green fields after corn and soybean harvest but this year seems worse. We had about 3.5 inches of rain a couple weeks ago after our month+ of hot and dry so the soil is still damp enough to support germination. The last couple of days when I have been out and about I have passed several fields that have a nice green carpet of either corn or soybean plants. I can't imagine that much grain passing through a combine if the operator is checking behind it. Some of the fields I know have had green machines harvesting. A couple others I know had red combines. Don't know of much else around here. Anyone else see something like this? Are the newer rotary type machines worse about this?

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Posted By: AC7060IL
Date Posted: 07 Oct 2025 at 10:43am

I see the same in our areas. Some soybeans may be existing the back of combines? But with current drought conditions, it’s likely variety seed shattering &/or header losses?? Lower set pods can get cut by the sickle. Also no matter how gentle the cutter bar & reel, seed is being dropped from dry/cracked/loose pods.

Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 07 Oct 2025 at 2:15pm

Crop condition, growing conditions, plane old luck some days. As much else as is different out here on the left coast this cannot be that different.

Having only cut barley, oats, wheat, and safflower, but again different but not that much. How much of a of a not properly filled seed do you want. Barley here was a real pain at times. If the bushel weight was to low, it was docked, and beyond a point it was rejected. In many cases it was harvest it just because it looked better on rented land. A new variety of barley showed up, yielded fabulously. Bushel weight was always questionable. The first field of it we tried double the normal yield, looked good in the hopper. Filled a truck load, then looked on the ground, gosh there was lot on the ground. Maybe under irrigation it would of been alright. Buyers where not wanting light bushel weight, so the end of that variety here.

So as I started how much do you want the unfilled seeds in the bin? But yes adjustment dose matter.

Posted By: Clay
Date Posted: 07 Oct 2025 at 7:30pm

Light barley is used to make lite beer.

Posted By: Robert D21
Date Posted: 07 Oct 2025 at 8:02pm

Yes all the early picked corn looks like they trying to double crop around eastern Nebraska!!!😳😳

Posted By: DanWi
Date Posted: 07 Oct 2025 at 10:07pm

Look how early we are harvesting crops now. Used finish picking corn the end of November or beginning of December. Corn didn't have a chance to germinate and grow. And those pickers head shelled a lot of corn sometimes. If you take 20 0+ bushel corn 1 bushel it is only 1/2 % field loss and we only plant about 1/2 bushel to begin with

Posted By: Rhoadesy_65
Date Posted: 08 Oct 2025 at 8:16am

This is our second year of the R-42, we are still new to it and rotaries in general. We had a K, an F2, and then Went to a JD 9400 for a couple years. Dad works at our local Agco dealer now so made sense to go Gleaner again. This year in our area of Ohio we got a lot of rain in the beginning of summer, then none from late July until late Sept. We had some small beans in the pods. Book settings we had a pretty dirty sample and we were loading up the chaffer and sieve. Open the chaffer and air up all the way and clean sample but throwing out some of the smaller beans. A bit of a trade-off. We ended up closing it down just a bit more and I think closing the cylinder gap slightly, and settling for a little dirtier sample but saving more beans. Of course when the plants are that dry you have some header loss and there is not much to do about it.

Last year was dry as well, maybe worse. When we started beans with the new to us combine, it was putting it all in the bin or all on the ground. Ended up putting a floor mat in the rotor cage, I think right were the tailings return dumps in if I remember right. I guess this helped slow things down so it could grind the beans out of the chaff better.

Dad travels a bit delivering equipment and looking at trade-ins, and said he can see a lot of green in the fields after green and red machines. I think its all in how you set it and where you want to take the hit in a year like this

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Farmin' with 1981 7010 PD, 1983 6080, 1983 8010, Gleaner R42 in Darke County OH