Pea Yields

[ado089]

First two fields of peas are done. The
first ran in the mid to high forties, the second will struggle to be in the
thirties. I think this will be the tone
for the whole crop. What are others
seeing?

[FarmRanger]

Peas in the 60-70 range here, but the driving rain
last week flattened them.

JD 936D platform -the peas want to go around, or
over the back of the platform. Any suggestions?

[SASKFARMER3]

Yield 30 and under its a shit show.

[jhurkot]

Doing heavy lodged peas with a 936D is painful. Took
25hours to harvest 160 acres. Average driving speed
of 1.3-1.5mph and LOTS of plug ups.

[furrowtickler]

Thats why we got rid of d****r headers. Do peas with an auger flex head now. Go as fast as conditons alow. Did peas runnin 50 ish at 5 mph, the only time you stop is for a gopher hill whrn the ground is wet.

[farmaholic]

Embarassed to report: Green Peas(Patricks) yielded 25-30 bu/ac. Pea size is small-various sizes of small, some so small will probably be dockage/feed(high cleanout). Mycosphaerella took over then aphids. Not spraying various crops this year is going to cost me big time!!! Can't wait to get this one behind me!!

[SASKFARMER3]

Second field got to. Fricking geese got 80 acres.
The best are done, all neighbors the same
Fricking water got us again.

[farming101]

SF3, are you claiming for wildlife damage?

[ado089]

Going 5-6mph shaving the ground with a
Macdon D50 with pea auger no problem.

[mcfarms]

Try an fd 70

[SASKFARMER3]

We use honeybees 30 ft with pickup real, plastic
fingers and use the deere float system on our
combines we're 2 in flat picking up fine just too
bad about the shitty crop.

[Hopperbin]

Saskfarmer will tell ducks unlimited his peas were doing 60 before the damage.

[furrowtickler]

The flex augers cost about 1/2 the Mac Don's ado.. and still hug the ground better with no pick up fingers on gaurds. Plus no canvases to worry about. Nothing can eat peas like a flex head period. We have had both, have you?

[FarmRanger]

Does the flex head cut cereals as well as the
d****r? Not sure which header to get that would
be an all purpose good for every crop(if there is
such a thing).

[TOM4CWB]

FarmRanger,

For Canola and peas you can't beat a flex.

For cereals a d****r feed way better when tough especially at night.

FD70 MacDons are split in the middle... and kind of are a happy medium... we use flex's on wheat and it works reasonable if it has full fingers the whole length of the auger tube. When tough straw... flex headers tend to lump feed because the straw circles around the tube and does not feed smooth where a d****r header is a smooth feed.

Rocks tend to collect ahead of the centre d****r and are much less a problem; where on flex Headers rocks tend to get sucked in much more easily.

Soooo we have Both a flex and a d****r.

Sorry... on Canola/peas the flex is tough to beat.