Standing corn

Ivan in Mich · Oct 16, 2013

This past week they started chopping the corn up this way. I watched them in one field and the had 4 Claus choppers going and about 8 or 10 trucks running. In most of the fields they left anywhere from 1 to 8 rows of corn standing but yet in some fields they took everything. Why did they leave these rows standing?

jason west · Oct 16, 2013

If the corn was droughted out, then it could be for insurance purposes. For valuing the crop?

donjr · Oct 16, 2013

Could be for the crop insurance adjuster....

onefarmer · Oct 16, 2013

I had the same question this year and the answer was for the insurance dude. After a week they finished the fields.

Ivan in Mich · Oct 16, 2013

That makes sense. The fields where they left some standing were bone dry. They started shelling on a couple of farms but this rain put a stop to that. It is strange because you can have 2 fields next to each other and one is dry and broken down but the one next to it is still green and this is on heavy ground

rrlund · Oct 16, 2013

If it's like the guys around here,it's just not worth turning the chopper and truck around to get a last little bit here and there.

JMS/.MN · Oct 16, 2013

For insurance purposes, you cannot leave just one or two rows standing. It has to be at least four, and several places across the field, depending on size of the field. Early years, farmers often tried leaving a row in a dead furrow......that didn"t cut it either.

Don-Wi · Oct 16, 2013

One of the local custom harvestors has 9 Claas SP choppers. They run atleast 3 trucks for each chopper. Plus they'll run pusher/packer tractors, etc...

So that's atleast probably 50 guys going when going full tilt.

A few others, and most of them are of similar size.

Donovan from Wisconsin

Traditional Farmer · Oct 17, 2013

Maybe its a flatlnder's idea of a windbreak(LOL)

DeltaRed · Oct 17, 2013

I'm like you,I think it is a BTO/BFO who just didnt whnt to mess with a 'partial' load

jiminct · Oct 17, 2013

possible there were weeds in that section? around here when they chop you usually see a few spots standing most of the time its because of wild cucumber.

2 Old 2 care · Oct 17, 2013

I can't speak to the specifics of your example. You'd have to talk to that farmer for a real answer. But, when I was completing my ag degree, we left a few rows standing on several of our test plots to check certain hybrids for standability beyond normal harvest dates. Some numbers would stay up all winter, where certain numbers would lay down. That's handy info to have in a year like this where some crops will be very late coming out of the field.

Don-Wi · Oct 17, 2013

Seems most quit insuring their silage corn, or like this year, it was planted way too late to be covered (according to them, you can't plant it after may 15th, or something crazy like that)

We used to leave 4 rows for the adjuster to come look at. We always got screwed, so we just said $%!@ it and dropped the insurance. Gives Dad a little more money to spend on the farm, cause the crop insurance sure wasn't helping any.

Donovan from Wisconsin

ss55 · Oct 18, 2013

Snow fence?

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