harvest is started.

[rustred]

its time, the wheat was going down today. should finish tommorrow if things hold out.

 

[Kelly in tx]

Nice pic of nice crop! Would that crop be able to be harvested by a combine without swathing it first, or is it too green or wet? kelly

 

[fastfarmall]

In my opinion its awful close to being ready to straight cut! Maybe he doesn't have header for the combine!

 

[Leroy]

Where Is that at as here wheat harvest was finished 2 months ago.

 

[Masseyharrisnut]

Great looking crop rustred. We finished last Saturday with dismal yields. Normally we would just be getting started as well. Good luck with the harvest and stay safe. Sunrise this morning.

 

[Scott 730]

Sure would be nice if people would put a location on posts like this..................

 

[rustred]

This is central Alberta Canada. I hr. North of Edmonton.

 

[rustred]

There is greens in it . I dont have the straight cut header , plus the ones that straight cut around here usually decicate the crop so it dry. Bad enough a person has to use sprays in the spring. Straight cutting. Is not that popular here. Only the big farmers do that.

 

[rustred]

looks good down there. i was hoping i get 50 bu. per acre , as lot of places the wild oats took over. a second flush came out.

 

[rustred]

yes and kernels are soft .

 

[37 chief]

What is meant by a straight cut header? Stan

 

[55 50 Ron]

Is that hard wheat or durum? Looks like about a 25 foot swath. I never operated a self-propelled swather. They are the best for opening a field. In the 1950s and 60s where I grew up in North Dakota the few farmers who had self-propelled swathers would get extra jobs opening fields for neighbors and relatives.

 

[55 50 Ron]

rustred does talk of his location quite often and his town is shown on the YT Members map.

 

[55 50 Ron]

Straight cut means the reel and sickle and canvases or augers are part of (integral with) the header. This is different than a row crop header. Straight cut is also used for soybeans and several other crops.

 

[Leroy]

So that is why harvest is 2 months late. Did not know crops could be raised that far north.

 

[Stan Coryell]

Great pictures! As much as I like the seasons changing, I wish the sun would hang high longer...

 

[NDIHC]

Seldom see anybody swathing in NoDak anymore. Except canola and a couple other crops. Wheat is pretty much always straight cut. And usually with 60 foot headers on the combine!

 

[rusty6]

(quoted from post at 07:50:27 09/07/23) There is greens in it . I dont have the straight cut header , plus the ones that straight cut around here usually decicate the crop so it dry. Bad enough a person has to use sprays in the spring. Straight cutting. Is not that popular here. Only the big farmers do that.

Good to hear I'm not the only one that still swaths wheat. I started on mine today too. Looks ripe until you get into it and every low spot has green in the heads. I think its a bad year for it as we had a dry July and then rain in August which encouraged second growth. I've straight cut wheat here without desicatting the first week of September before but you can't depend on it. Most around here are desicating. Planes and helicopters going every day spraying dessicant. Then in ten days or couple of weeks straight cut. I can't upload the original photo as its 10 mb so here is a down sized version from today.

 

[rustred]

its hard red wheat. no, my swather is the 15 foot versatile 400 1981 model works as good as new so why buy new,...when i was 17 years old i worked at the new holland and versatile dealer setting these swathers up . they came to town on a train. everthing in pieces. engine in a crate, frame by its self, reels all in pieces, same with the header only the frame and assemble the rest. in 2 days i had it field ready. we sold a pile of them swathers and its one of the best swathers out there. many are still being used by the smaller guys. and yes i just put in 8 hrs none stop and wheat is cut down. canola left.

 

[rustred]

wow, there is crrops being grown way farther north , way up about 8 hrs north of me yet, la crete is one place. i even drove up there to buy a versatile field sprayer. that was about a 16 hr. trip there and back.