It's fall already chat thread
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From: The Star-Club, Hamburg
No, it's not fall... it can't be fall. If it's fall, then that means winter is coming... and I have too much to do before winter shows up! It simply cannot be fall yet.
Hmm... awful lotta leaves on the ground for "Indian Summer", though.
Hmm... awful lotta leaves on the ground for "Indian Summer", though.
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From: Marengo, Iowa
In a normal year, we generally get started in early September. Hardly anyone got started up until the last couple weeks this year...
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From: muscatine abouts
ive been reading the corn is dry this year. your saying to muddy to pick so is this a farmer excuse lol my excuses are im hot or im cold or used to work on farm decades ago. dont sound like its changed. the only thing i miss is farm field roads and beater trucks
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The mud isn't as much the problem as the water running out of the ground... we had 36" of rain through the spring and summer months... and we didn't get nearly as much as some. The compaction is a problem with it being wet too. The moisture is just about right now, but had they started picking early in September like usual, the moisture was way high. These cooler nights have helped dry it pretty good lately. The field here was about 16%, still need dried some, but earlier in the month was closer to 20%, and with the price of the fuel to dry the corn, nobody was in a hurry to pick it too early and pay the drying bill.