New corn harvest

[SidecarFlip]

'Hubby' must be a French Canadian thing.

Here stateside we are referred to by our wives as ...'my old man' and vice versa by us as 'the old lady'.

Only thing corn cobs are good for is fire starter and animal feed.
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[Hats2Heavy]

Hey Flip it's OL Lady not Old sheezze you going to get us in trouble.

[SidecarFlip]

At my age, age is not relevant. It's all old.

Some age well, like fine wine while others age like a over ripe banana.....
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[mustang00]

The cobs are full of kernels...too bad too waste..

I call him Hubby even though we are not married...together 15 years...

Oh ya ...i can't call him old man cause he is 6 years younger than me lol.

i still don't know if i am French canadian or just canadian...have to think about it...ay

[SidecarFlip]

Isn't it 'eh'?

The reason the cobs are in the field is twofold. One the corn came off wet so some plants broke off, because the stalk got brittle and the frost moisture was too much to bear and secondly, he has a crappy combine with, most likely cutterbar problems, broken or bent guards or a broken knife. Knives wear out and farmers get complacent.

It's a bad year for corn...everywhere.
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[tallcorn]

The corn cob with the corn still on it is an "ear" of corn. There are 3 ears of corn at the top of this page. I've been is some combined corn fields recently and some fields don't have any ears in the combined stalks on the ground, just cob pieces, leaves and stalks. Some fields do have some cob with corn on it. There are differences in how well combines do the job and how good they are adjusted. Then there are the ears that drop on the ground or are below where the combine can grab them. Broken stalks and wind damaged standing corn can cause a lot of losses.
On the TV news last night they featured a school's students that were picking a burned field of corn for salvage. They got the money for what the corn sold for just for picking it. They were using 5 gallon buckets to collect the ears in. Corn fields get set on fire by combine and tractor hot exhausts when leaves and trash get on them. On a windy day a field fire can do a lot of damage.
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[mustang00]

Ya an" ear"...i am not used to speaking English anymore...lol...i was raised on a dairy farm..owned a beef farm and then worked on a biotech goat farm....so i should be able to speak agriculture terms...

it seems to be mostly on the side of the fields and next to tree lines the stalks are still up and the corn is still on them. this guy is a little rushed all the time so not the best combine job i've seen.

so much corn up here and not much rain...the corn is nice and dry. Some of the farmers around here are finished and done plowing too!

[tallcorn]

Plowing is another thing that isn't done much any more. Row crop land may get disked to cut up the stalks or to open the ground but the crop residue is left on the surface. Most crops are planted "no till" and herbicides control weeds so no cultivating.
The recent rains has given the next door kid a break from the continuous 17 hour days of commercial (Co-op) anhydrous ammonia application for next years crops.
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Countryside 3500P (pedestal version) used 8-9 yrs, 24/7 during days requiring heat. All original motors. Burns moldy corn, and pellets equally well. Burn it if you got it.

[SidecarFlip]

Don't understand the An part. Normally, An is applied 12-14 days prior to planting because the An degrades to N in the soil in that amount of time. If the ground is fallow over the winter, by spring, the nutritive effects of An is long gone.

Canadians don't moldboard plow either. Everything is no-till at least for 4 years and then maybe a quick once over with a seep plow. Trash content in no-tilled fields gets out of hand after repeated cycles.
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[mustang00]

The guy in front has done the no till for the past few years now this year he has added the AN and deep plowed.

He has no problem with weeds cause he puts so much herbicides and pesticides.

[rona]

When the temp gets below 50 you can apply Anhydrous with out much of a loss over winter. This is a common procedure around here and has been done that way for several years.

[mustang00]

well that temp is no problem here it's been below freezing a lot here.

[Corny]

[mustang00]

You are correct Corny!!!

[irnman1827]

There is an additive for anhydrous that helps prevent leaching. That, coupled with the soil temperature being below 50 degrees, helps keep leaching/loss to a minimum.

This is a horrible year for corn in most of the midwest. A lot of corn is coming out of the field at 20-30% moisture. Test weights stink too. To top it off, much of the corn in Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Ohio has white mold. You can't really see it, but it's there. The corn has to be dried down to 14% to kill the mold. Should be an interesting season of burning.
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