Peas straight cut vs swath.

[Klause]

So... swathed peas will maintain their grade while standing will bleach.


Yes? No?



All I know is yellows and what I know this year is ours are staying as 2s and most samples into the elevator are feed if they were cut with all this daily rain.


Ok. Let the discussion begin


*grabs popcorn*

[seabass]

How could u consider peas standing if they are 2 inches off the ground. Those things are a pita in the years when they stand. I wont ever grow them again.

[TOM4CWB]

Seabass

2 inch high peas are often our result after rains knock them down.

A good flex header if set right can skim the ground... Without lifter fingers, and the reel lifts the vines up and pulls them in. We have plenty of rocks, which we flatten down with a land roller. Lifters pop them up so less problems if left in a bucket to be used in down wheat six inches high to reduce straw load on combine. With peas we try to get all the vines and go slower.

Even some of our fabas are knocked down to 12 inches this year, which is easy going for a good working flex header.

We have been using them since the 1970's.

Sanding one foot would really be great!

[mbdog]

I'm hoping 2" off ground isn't as bad as on ground swathed. Doesn't matter...can't get on field anyway. Going straight is plan now.

[westernvicki]

Swathing peas is one manner to bring the field to threshing position, in the same manner as a desiccant.

As a quality factor generally the colour is preserved very well with swathing. Some years a swathed field will have much better colour than a desiccated field. This year colour has been good with standing desiccation.

The risks of swathing is mostly wind. However a packed pea swath is quite stable. A standing field, well err lets say a non swathed field to be clear as not all peas are standing, will dry out quicker. But we have had years when swathed fields have stayed out for quite a bit of weather quite decently.

There are folks who swath (yes a small % to those who desiccate) very successfully every year.

I believe it all depends upon the field, the year, the weather the individual choice as swathing for some is indeed a valid option.

[seabass]

U can have them Tommy. When u get inches of rain this time of year that ground takes forever to dry and is a does nothing but add to the frustration. Even in standing wheat. If swathed at least the sun when it shines can hit the ground and dry it out. 2010 for eg.

[farmaholic]

Everything is always near perfect in Wild Rose-Coloured Glasses Country. A big part of one's outlook is attitude.....

[freewheat]

A big part of ones outlook I think also has to do with wealth, and the machinery you can afford. We do not all have the ability to afford the latest and greatest flex heads, grain carts, semis, combines, bells, whistles, etc..

If I had some of the stuff folks talk about, I would downright look forward to harvest and have a good attitude too.

I am happy, don't get me wrong, but those with wealth need to remember we all do not have the options you have. Harvest is a fight for some of us. A joy and a joke for others...

[cottonpicken]

I sort of think someday swathers will be a dead technology and our grankids will point to the junk pile and say what the heck is that grandpa.

[freewheat]

Like we do with binders and threshing machines, cotton? lol!