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Harvest 2010 Video
Posted in Videos, tagged farm, Harvest, harvest 2010, Video, wheat on November 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Your Postharvest Field Checklist
Posted in Features, tagged 2010 Harvest, Corn, Crops, Harvest, Soybeans on November 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Since harvest flew by this year for much of the U.S., you now have some time to give your fields some much-needed TLC.
“This is one of the earliest harvests on record in Illinois and last year was one of the latest,” says Brett Roberts, Illinois state agronomist for Natural Resource Conservation Service. “Talk about two seasons that are just polar opposite.”
Roberts offers this to-do list to fill your extra time this fall.
Address Compaction
This is probably one of the first opportunities that farmers have had in several years to address compaction, Roberts says. He encourages farmers to fully analyze their fields and use any needed deep tillage implements to fix compaction.
Learn more about restructuring your soil and fixing ruts in your fields.
Get Covered
While it may be too late in the calendar for some areas, Roberts says planting fall cover crops is always a good idea.
In Illinois, he says, farmers have to worry about nitrates coming out of the tile lines. “We know that fall cover crops do a whole lot as far as absorbing any excess nitrogen that might be in the soil after harvest.”
Replenish Nutrients
“Healthy crops protect the soil better,” Roberts says. So, to reach that healthy level, he suggests getting caught up on lime applications.
For the rest of the checklist, check out the full article on Agweb.com.
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Why Crop Prices Are Soaring
Posted in Features, tagged Crops, Harvest, News, Prices, Reports, USDA on October 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The USDA has been full of surprises in their last few crop reports-and this past Fridays was no different.
The good corn yields in the northern part of the Corn Belt were not good enough to offset the central and southern Corn Belt yield losses.
With an expected average yield now of only 155.8 bushels per acre, the corn market is now a “new ball game.”
For more on the soaring crop prices, read the full article on AgriMarketing.com.
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5 Tips To Help You Manage Corn Residue This Fall
Posted in Features, tagged #harvest10, Corn, Education, farm, Features, General, Harvest, Residue on October 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
If you struggle to manage the residue levels in your corn-on-corn acres, you aren’t alone. With the focus on using higher plant populations and narrow rows–not to mention increasingly tough cornstalks—farmers have more residue to manage than ever before. Farm Journal Agronomists Ken Ferrie and Missy Bauer provide the following agronomic tips and reminders to help you accomplish that goal this fall and in a fashion that will help you prepare for 2011.
Know your residue needs.
To qualify for government conservation programs, you need to leave a minimum amount of residue on your fields. In some cases, the requirement is upwards of 30%. Make sure you know the requirements in order to comply.
Tillage practices play a huge role in determining the amount of residue you will want to leave in fields after harvest this fall.
Ferrie says if you use no-till practices exclusively, harvest corn so the stalks left behind are no more than 24” tall. Shorter is even better.
“Those shorter stalks will be much easier to deal with when you plant next spring,” he says. “It also minimizes potential damage to your planter tires.”
At the same time, having corn residue readily available to protect the soil surface is important, especially in those areas that historically face soil and water erosion issues.
“In northern areas, we try to speed-up residue breakdown, but it’s often the opposite in some of the southern states,” Bauer says. “A lot of times farmers there need to preserve residue to protect their soils.”
For more tips, read the full article on Agweb.com.
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Check Out a Demo of the New Bale Direct System
Posted in Features, tagged Bale Direct, Balers, Corn, Crops, Harvest, harvest 2010, MudHog, Tractors, Tuthill on October 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Check out photos of the demo on Fastline’s Flickr Page.
Indiana Fastline Rep, Debbie Fornefeld, visited Tuthill in Brookston to see the new Bale Direct coupled drive system that allows a combine and baler to work together. The same company that gave us the MudHog four wheel drive system now manufactures a conveyor that attaches a John Deere, Case IH, New Holland, Lexion, Massey Ferguson, Gleaner, Hesston, or Challenger combine or baler. The conversion seems to be relatively simple. It includes removing the chaff spreader and attaching hydraulics that feed chaff across the conveyor into the baler. The combine in the video uses a an Oxbo head that discards much of the stalk so that the bale consist mostly of husk and cobs which is desirable if the bales are to be used for cellulosic conversion into ethanol.
The bales can also be used for feeding stocker cattle or bedding. Baling from the combine offers several advantages. A single pass requires no tractor or rake, saves fuel, and more weed seeds are collected and removed. An added benefit is that the bale is cleaner, since the chaff never touches the ground.
This product will can be seen at a demonstration next week in Menlo, IA at the SynGest Ammonia plant. As new ways to use the organic trash that might have been left behind in the field emerge, Tuthill continues to explore the possibilities to turn residue into profit. Given that many farms already include a combine and a big baler, it will be interesting to see if this becomes a new trend on large acre farms further west. More information is available at: tuthill.com/baledirect or by calling (800) 348-2474.
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Watch a Grain Bin Being Built
Posted in Features, tagged Education, farm, Grain bin, Harvest, harvest 2010, Video on September 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Check out this video of a grain bin being built and installed. What a process!
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Corn, Soybeans and Wheat Face the Perfect Storm
Posted in Features, tagged #plant10, Crops, Features, Food, General, Harvest, Weather on August 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
We have a good crop in the United States, says Jerry Gulke, of the Gulke Group. The wheat harvest has gone well and there is a huge supply of wheat in this country. While there remain some questions about the stateside corn and soybean crops, what’s happening overseas and on the technical charts are combining to build a perfect storm that should lead to higher commodity prices for some time to come.
A little more than a month ago, $3.50/bu. for corn looked like a party. Now he says corn buyers around the world are now starting to look at $4.00/bu. corn as a gift.
“It starts in Russia with the heat and the destruction of their crops. It’s the worst drought in 123 years, and it’s reminiscent of 1973-74 when the communist controlled country came in and bought all of our wheat,” Gulke says.
For more, read the full article on Agweb.com.
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Fall Harvest Photos
Posted in Features, tagged Corn, farm, Harvest, Photos on October 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Check out these Fall Harvest photos submitted by Fastline Northeast Sales Representative, Gary Sweeney. If you have photos of your Fall Harvest, let us know. We would love to hear from you. Email all photos to interact@fastline.com.
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