Friday Crop Report on a Thursday.

[SASKFARMER]

We like our 45 fts

[Hamloc]

Local guys have been buying 45’ and 50’ headers on case 9250 and used to run 40’. They found running side by side the 45’ ran same ground speed as 40’ and 50’ was only marginally slower than 45’.

They have no idea why, but it seems the wider headers have capacity increases for case combines. These side by sides were in 100 bus barley, 70 bus wheat and 50 bus canola.

Everyone has been pleasantly surprised and can not explain why

Yes salesman said the same thing, I thought he was blowing smoke lol. I am beginning to believe he is right.

[Hamloc]

And a lexicon solves every other problem….

My cousins up the road ran 2 John Deere S series combines and 1 Lexion 760. Yup it was faster in wheat, absolutely no doubt. They plugged it in canola, took 8 hours to unplug. Much higher maintenance costs over the John Deere. This year they now have 3 John Deers, they are much happier.

[shtferbrains]

Can you feed much more than 1000 BPH of heavy canola with a 45 ft?

[goalieguy847]

June used to be our "monsoon" month. 3 years running now, that June has failed to deliver more than a few spotty showers. The last 2 years, we've been skunked in June, and picked up enough moisture in July to make the year look just shy of average, but it is wreaking havoc as thin droughted out crops cannot compete with weed growth that starts in mid to late July. Everyone's aftercut is an absolute nightmare this year. Entire sections are RED with cured up kochia and russian thistle. A few entrepreneurial ranchers have started making "marshmallows" out of the weeds...

Only thing that will be a record around here is the god damned chemical bill. pre-seed with expensive concoctions to try and control kochia and thistle that didn't activate due to lack of rainfall. In-crop with expensive coctails to try and control the kochia that is resistant to nearly every damned group 4 chemical we have, then ANOTHER in-crop to try and control escaped kochia in areas with absolute despicable germination, then finally a Pre-harvest pass with another expensive concoction to try and make this shit straight cuttable! All in an effort to try and preserve some of that July moisture for next year, and reduce the ever increasing weed seed bank. The only bank account that is growing exponentially around here!

Anyone trying the redekop or weedsmasher addons to the combines?
Thatll be our next purchase...

[furrowtickler]

Can you feed much more than 1000 BPH of heavy canola with a 45 ft?

With the larger machines , decent even canola and FD2 headers it’s very possible . Can be tough with older 45 fts in certain conditions, simply can’t feed it effectively

A lot depends on variety as well , pod size and MOG load on sieves

[helmsdale]

Yes salesman said the same thing, I thought he was blowing smoke lol. I am beginning to believe he is right.

Theres a certain amount of diesel going up the stack (1) moving the machine, and (2) just keeping everything spinning.

Much like Australia has been pioneering 60ft straight cut headers, this particular area was running 36ft and 42ft units far before it was cool. Guys were running 36' straight cuts on 9500 deeres and 1660 cases, then 42ft on 9750 and 8010's. Back in the 80's 50ft doubles went up the front ends of 750 masseys and 7720 deeres. It was all about keeping the machine "busy" at a speed that's slow enough to be both managable and economical to push up and down the field.