Friday Crop Report on a Thursday Week 24

[SASKFARMER]

I’m looking still at 10 NH dealer out and three are sitting

[furrowtickler]

Hmmm , our NH combines have been flawless again …. Knock on wood .
They all can have issues , a lot depends on dealer regardless of colour

[fcr]

Local municipal airport is so busy with spray planes they had to open an old applicators runway to accommodate all the planes.

[makar]

I’m looking still at 10 NH dealer out and three are sitting

Probably eating so much grain the trucks cant keep up.

[Old Cowzilla]

Some guys have sitting combines just because they don't have enough guys to run them. Rely on after 5 guys from work or school kids or have a spare when these beasts go down. See lots of color switching around here everybody looking for perfect machine.

[shtferbrains]

Not ideal

[Hamloc]

I’m looking still at 10 NH dealer out and three are sitting

I watched the Hutterite colony combine down the road with 3 X9’s. They appeared to be working well. They used to run 5 single rotor John Deere combines. I think they did more acres per hour then, but it took 2 more operators. The X9’s looked big and clumsy. The new New Holland CR11 will create a new level of performance no one will match, as will the Case ih AF11. I ran New Hollands for 13 years, they performed well. I appreciate the simplicity of my Case Ih single rotors now. Keep them in top shape, throw in Mad concaves and away you go. Compared my Viewfield sample last year with Sunnybrooks to my Viewfield sample this year with Mads, was quite impressed. Viewfield can be a SOB to thrash but I still think one of the best wheats in a drought.

[Dr Tone]

Frost on roofs and grass this morning. -2 in areas.

[BTO780]

Had a shower the other day wheat tested 16.8 yesterday, so went golfing at mens night. Everyone there hoped it would rain to be able to get out of the combine and not have to look at this pitiful crop for a few hrs.

Most will be done in a few days, some have been wrapped up for a wk.

One farmer I know opened his clean grain and return elevators and let it on the ground. There was literally nothing there .. chickens would starve.

[1ABFRMR]

So for all the BtOs who run NH do you buy 6 and they throw in 4 for parts because most days two are sitting. Just observing all the NH farms on way out.

would like to see your x9 when it has 3000 threshing hours like our 3 cr9080 have and running trouble free

[furrowtickler]

One must remember X9’s are just pretend CR’s

And Fendt Ideals are just recycled X9’s painted black

all in fun of course

[biglentil]

Wouldn't go back to yellow after goin red. Had enough of the concave shear bolts and hanging on a 5ft wrench to unplug the rotor.

[helmsdale]

would like to see your x9 when it has 3000 threshing hours like our 3 cr9080 have and running trouble free

You can't hardly find a belt drive rotary caseih (heritage machine) in western canada anymore. But damn, Im pushing 7000hr's on a 1660, and 5000hr's on a 1688. Now I wont say they're trouble free, but if you do the basic's pre-harvest they're pretty darned reliable. Sample? typically 0.5-1.2% dockage with it being higher on shit years and lower on good years. Capacity wise though, those things absolutely dont even fit into western canadian ag anymore...

[helmsdale]

Had a shower the other day wheat tested 16.8 yesterday, so went golfing at mens night. Everyone there hoped it would rain to be able to get out of the combine and not have to look at this pitiful crop for a few hrs.

Most will be done in a few days, some have been wrapped up for a wk.

One farmer I know opened his clean grain and return elevators and let it on the ground. There was literally nothing there .. chickens would starve.

Last year i had to open my return... Couldn't physically blow the thistle and kochia out the back end. It just kept doing the cycle through the return until it finally would build up plug everything solid. Disaster territory. New chem plan this year seems to be leaving clean aftercut on 95%.

Drought years might be a prime candidate for reducing your fertilizer inputs, but reducing your chem inputs will shitter you!

[furrowtickler]

Wouldn't go back to yellow after goin red. Had enough of the concave shear bolts and hanging on a 5ft wrench to unplug the rotor.

Yes that’s where Case is nice

never broke any shear bolts
These ones have reversers now ,never had to use them though