Get pumped!
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Combines are getting prepped up here, noticed one field today that looked ready. Lots of them turning colors but were a few weeks before it really starts. Weather this weekend is gonna be another tease!
I passed a field tonight on another route home that is primed to be picked! Only one I've seen that far along.
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Our beans aren't worth picking this year. Might as well just mow them down. More weeds than beans and the biggest ones I have seen are only about 12-18" tall. They are just starting to yellow at the tips. Some of the corn looks more ready than the beans at this point. I am pumped for one reason only: Opening weekend with my son.
I know one thing, the corn coming down earlier than last year is going to help me out a lot. I hung a stand in a pinch point 75 yards inside the woods off of a corn field. It's game on when that chit comes down!
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Its my understanding that the farmers that are running corn are mega farms and majority are central,east and southern ohio. North West Ohio typically leaves there corn stand. I could be wrong, but back home in sandusky county, nothing, Ashland and Holmes county farmers are running corn that is still green (must be able to afford to dry it).
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I think that's everywhere. Here in Clark county I bet no more than a dozen farmers farm 90% of the ground.
If you notice the fields that get picked green are crazy clean. This is because they harvest the entire plant. It come out of the hopper all chopped up and ready for animal feed. The farmers that do this are generally doing it to feed their own animals/cows/pigs. These same fields are generally not worth hunting as they don't leave any corn on the ground.
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Now that you mention it, the fields are picked extremely clean and are huge dairy farms. My family had a small dairy farm (now just a grain farm), he never did anything like that to small.
Lol, quite a few in the 3k acre + range. Jon, my observations also come from my 35mike drive each way to North Olmsted.
The guys cutting corn early are doing it for silage. Corn is drying fast up here, but havent seen a touched field as expected.
A 30 acre corn field right beside the farm I hunt just got cut today. I was watching a nice buck come out of that field into the beans every weekend.