Wasted crop?

[Mike]

What's the point of farming beans when so many are left after harvest? I walked two edges of a 100 acre field and this is what it looked like. Lots of full pods too.

 

[bowhunter1023]

Time for a new combine!

 

[RedCloud]

Wow. I agree with jesse. That guy needs a new machine because the guy that does our field doesn't miss a thing. The only stuff I find is from when the fill the trucks.

 

[Fluteman]

That's not wasted crop, that was strategically left for you to shoot a deer over! Get it done buddy!

 

[giles]

I would not be complaining one bit! Good for you to find a major food source.

 

[themedic]

Could also be the seed. Beans have been engineered to not split/break open but many still do in colder temps and very dry conditions. At least that's what Real World Wildlife seed company says.

 

[dante322]

I'm going with crappy combine.

 

["J"]

His loss your gain..... Lots of food for them deerz......

 

[Mike]

I know it's an OLD combine.

 

[giles]

This can also happen when the head speed is set too high. It will fling everything off the stem before it gets inside the head.

The temp has nothing to do with this...

 

[Outdoorsfellar]

I sure as hell wouldn't be telling the guy driving the 'bine about it.

 

[nathan.luthman]

We farm with a 68 jd 4400... the firsf fifty feet we run in any field looks about like that until we adjust everything... not the combines fault at all...

 

[Gooseman07]

It could be conditions at harvest too. If it didn't dry down properly, those beans won't come out of the pod.

 

[xbowguy]

Outcome is OK for you and the wildlife.

 

[motorbreaker]

Ya I love our farmers antique combine. I tried to tell him he needs to slow the cylinder speed down but he wont listen and I don't care. He leaves a lot of corn in the fields witch is ok with me.

 

[Ohiosam]

Beans around here are pretty short this year. Makes it hard to get all the beans on the bottom of the plant. Even guys with late model combines are complaining about how many beans they are leaving in the field. One guy I was talking to Friday was complaining about all the volunteer beans coming up in his wheat.

Corn stalks are weak, a lot of disease issues. If corn isn't harvested quick you'll see lots of corn on the ground this winter.

 

["J"]

Beans around here are pretty short this year. Makes it hard to get all the beans on the bottom of the plant. Even guys with late model combines are complaining about how many beans they are leaving in the field. One guy I was talking to Friday was complaining about all the volunteer beans coming up in his wheat.

Corn stalks are weak, a lot of disease issues. If corn isn't harvested quick you'll see lots of corn on the ground this winter.

Looks like the critters are going too be eating good this winter.....

 

[Big_Holla]

Definitely the combine. The farmer down at our place in Ohio there leaves a lot behind, just not that bad. The farmer up here in Mich. where we used to hunt you'd be lucky to find a few kernel/seeds in a 10 x 10 area.