corn harvest

Sunday morning I had about 35 acres of corn to harvest and I called in the cavalry, not on horses but a big green machine. This week I will be heading to the National FFA Convention in Louisville, so I wanted to get done. In the past corn harvest went faster because my dad helped by running the combine a little bit...

This picture shows just how dry it is in the field. It looks like fog, but it is really dust coming off the corn head on my combine. You can only imagine the dust coming out the back of the combine. I was very comfortable in my pressurized air conditioned and heated cab...

This is what farmers are seeing these days from a combine cab. Rows and rows of corn waiting to be harvested. Most farmers are reporting a very good corn crop -- so good that it takes a long time to harvest it! With my combine I am traveling about 1...

Some years the corn dryers are running 24 hours a day. This is not one of those years. In fact when I started harvesting corn it was at 16-17 percent moisture. Corn must be under 15.5 percent moisture otherwise you will get docked at the elevator...