here we go

I stepped in to fill my water jug, check the radar and grab my camera. Headed out to cut some tough weedy oats. The radar looks good, my water jug is full so here we go.
bill

Hope everything goes well and would love to see some pictures =]

Bill, curious what date you planted your oats.

Here are the pics. We are cutting these oats for a neighbor and I dont know when he put them in. We will cut our own oats tomorrow and they were planted on may 8 which is over a month late and they are almost as weedy as these were. We got one field done today, must have been 15 acres and we left maybe 3 or 4 because of the weeds and we have a 5 acre field to go and I dont think we will get half of them but we will try. I didnt have any trouble to speak of and since we skipped the worst of the weeds the oats looked pretty fair in the wagon. The ole 45 did rumble a few times today.
bill



On the road again. Wont ever get a speeding ticket on this thing.





There they are. Its a little hard to get excited about diving into that. He didnt do anything wrong with the oats, just alot of weeds and grass came in.



A 45 combine really isnt overpowered in this situation. A good 12-A or 30 combine would do well in these weeds. Now those combines would eat those weeds right up.



The first couple of hoppers all this stuff made me nervous but pretty soon I was crusing along in second gear with out a care in the world, well almost.



There's that 403 folowing me around again. That is alot more of a combine than my little 45 but he had a fair amount of trouble with slugging the platform auger and then having to dig it out. Looked like a hot job.



Looks like someone mowed a yard. The oats yielded far better than expected. The rest will be cut and baled.

Glad they weren't my oats. The local coffee shop talk/gossip would be brutal.

Just wondering? Why not have the field sprayed with roundup a week or so before you plan to combine? You would lose the oats in the sprayer tracks, but the weeds would be dead and go thru combine a lot better. Chris

The only reason oats are raised around here is to serve as a cover crop for alfalfa. Cant kill the weeds and not get the alfalfa. I would also assume that there is a preharvest interval on roundup of a month or so.
bill

If the roundup doesnt kill the alfalfa all those weeds sure will choke them out.

There is a spray made for use in wheat or oats to control the weeds but will not hurt the alfalfa. And we have sprayed wheat underseeded with alfalfa with 24D with no problem, the problem is when you wait till the weeds are already out of control before you spray, if you spray when the weeds are first there the alfalfa is not yet started so is not hurt