Jacob,you'll find it extremely satisfying making a sale in the Spring when they're typically a good bit higher than Fall. Another added benefit, indeed,is being able to be independent of the hours at the local elevator.
Why wouldn’t you get some help putting the sump on that auger. Dry beans store are easier to store than corn Storage pays you can run longer in a day sorter the elevator close at night and the weekends.
Cool dill you have your bens set up and I see a farm Han loader one of the fords getting a loader and I am about to get some hopper bens to set up for grain on my farm
Did your family put those bins up years ago? Or did you guys buy the farm like that? I wish we had more infrastructure for grain storage and livestock!
wouldn't hurt to blow some air through them for cheap insurance, particularly when its real cold like that... The BIL in northern Indiana usually just stores corn on the farm, has a nice old bin with a dryer on it. Course you don't want to use heat on the beans unless you want to cook them for your own use. With corn he runs the dryer until he gets it down to about 15% moisture on top, so it'll be about 11-12% on bottom down on the drying floor... course he runs the stirrators to keep the corn turned, except for the bottom foot or two on the floor that doesn't move. Then once they hit the right moisture, he runs the fan for another day to cool the corn down so it doesn't sweat moisture and crust itself in the bin... Once it's cooled down he shuts the fan down, until they get some good cold weather down in the 20's, lower the better, and then runs the fan all night on a good cold dry night to "freeze" the corn in the bin... then it'll stay in good shape all winter. When warmer weather starts to arrive, he'll run the fan on a good warm dry day to warm the corn back up, just so it's not sitting in the bin still freezing cold since it sorta insulates itself; the cold corn would tend to condense moisture out of the air drive the moisture up or cause it to crust. Once it's warmed up in warmer weather, then it's good to go til it's all out of the bin and sold in town... You'd probably want to do beans the same way... course no dryer so you don't cook them, but blow air through them to make sure that any green pods or green beans in there have a chance to lose their moisture to the air blowing through them instead of making the beans around them damp, which could mold or crust. When you've got a good cold dry night, turn the fan on and freeze them for the winter and you should be good. If you're still holding any that haven't gone to town once the weather starts warming up, maybe run the fan just to blow some air through them and warm them up a bit so they're not sitting there ice cold which could condense moisture from the air and cause mold or crusting... worst thing to deal with is crusted bridging grain breaking up in chunks and plugging your auger or well...
Well if he had a forward contract he'd have been hauling to the elevator right out of the field, unless his contract is for delivery in February or March or something... sounds like he's just open marketing them. We used to contract a lot of our cotton, BUT the nice thing with a cotton contract is it's an ACREAGE contract, not a bales or pounds of cotton contract like it is with grain... Contracting so many POUNDS or BUSHELS delivered to fill the contract. Seen guys get into trouble with grain contracts... when I was a kid, Dad and Grandpa had been custom combining all the grain sorghum for a BTO they went to church with... he was bragging and told them, "yall buy a new combine and yall can cut my grain EVERY year!" Well, Dad was tired of strugging with the old Case combine he'd patched back together from all the sodium chlorate holes rusted through it (some guys used chlorate to desiccate the sorghum before combining, but it's basically like running salt through your machine, and in the heat and humidity on the Texas coast isn't a good idea-- rots the combine down like the Titanic on the seafloor-- it just melts over time! Anyway, they bought a new combine and started harvesting for him. They had a black friend who had a grain truck hauling for them, reasonable rates back then for custom hauling, but the BTO didn't like him (probably because he was black) and ran him off. Then after a few days he called up Dad and Grandpa and told them to pack it in, he didn't need them anymore... a neighbor of his up the road pretending to be a BTO had oversold and signed a big contract for a high price on grain sorghum and was way short, and facing ruin having to buy back the contract, so he cut a deal with him where the other guy was buying his entire crop out of the field at the going rate across the scale and was going to combine it and haul it for free... "Sorry you got notes to make the new combine and THOUGHT you had a handshake agreement with me, but that's the breaks, hope it works out for you!" and that was that. Dad and Grandpa were sweating on how to make the note when it turned out another BTO across the river on the north end of the county had rented a bunch of bottom land along the river bottom, plowed it up, and planted several thousand acres of grain sorghum, to cash in on the high prices. Of course it was a wet June and the morningglory vines came on like gangbusters in the heat and humidity, and ran up and down and across the rows and sewed the whole field up like a mattress with the grain heads inside it. He put the word out to all the custom guys to come to his place on such n such a day and they'd have a competition to see who got the job. Dad and Grandpa drove the new combine over there crossing the river bridge which was tough with an 18 foot header on a two lane bridge on the edge of town, but they got there. Everybody and their dog showed up with every kind of combine you can imagine, from brand new to older machines, Case, International, Deere, Gleaner, Massey, White, Oliver, you name it it was there... They started combining and most guys got from 10-20 yards in and plugged up with green morningglory vines. Locked the machine up tight and had to back out under the pecan trees and clear it out , usually with a knife and tugging green vines out of the cylinder, as there weren't reversers in the 70's... Dad plugged a time or two as well, but the Ford (Claas) had a big cast iron block with holes for a big bar on it on the end of the cylinder shaft, so you could turn the whole machine backwards with a big iron bar to roll plugs out. After a time or two he figured out how to do it... the Claas had a lever and sector under the seat to adjust the concave setting... usually ran it in slot 3 for sorghum. Dad learned that when he saw slug of vines go under the auger, he had a few seconds til it hit the cylinder, and if he reached down about the time he started to hear the "BRRRRRR" of the cylinder bars smashing into the wad, and pushed the lever down to the floor, which opened the concave wide open, the combine would just beat the wad right on through the concave and cylinder and toss it on the walkers, and it'd ride right out the back... some unthreshed heads in it, sure, but it beat plugging... as soon as the "BRRRR" noise stopped, the plug was through, and he'd pull it back up to hole 3 in the sector and she'd go right back to threshing normally... so he could avoid plugging the machine and having to stop. Claas was the only machine that could do that... Deere used a little crank to open the cylinder clearance, that took too long to work because the machine would stall before the concave could be cranked open. IH used bolts to adjust theirs from the ground, Gleaner had a fixed concave in the throat of the machine, even the newest ones had only added a raddle chain under the concave... Within a few hours everybody else gave up and quit and left... too much work unclogging a machine constantly in 100 degree heat, even in the shade of pecan trees... Dad and Grandpa got the whole job-- managed to pay off the combine in a single year with the money they made! If you're going to contract grain, better not contract more than about half your normal production, in case of a drought or storm ruining the crop. Worst thing in the world is having to buy out a contract that you can't fill, and if the grain prices go the wrong way, it can ruin you...
I love the improvements you have made on the farm it gives you more flexibility and hopefully greater profits.
That bin is like money in the bank. 👍
What's the word on the 2+2? also could you make an update video on the 2+2?
I've always heard " Necessity is the mother of invention " and you're a prime example ........
Jacob, I am so happy for you. I could feel your enthusiasm in getting the new bin open for storage. Blessings.
Jacob,you'll find it extremely satisfying making a sale in the Spring when they're typically a good bit higher than Fall. Another added benefit, indeed,is being able to be independent of the hours at the local elevator.
Why wouldn’t you get some help putting the sump on that auger. Dry beans store are easier to store than corn Storage pays you can run longer in a day sorter the elevator close at night and the weekends.
I can tell from all the stuff laying around, you are definitely purpose driven…it happens in the heat of getting things done.!
Good to see you still have that little mini wagon, not seen it for awhile.
Cool dill you have your bens set up and I see a farm Han loader one of the fords getting a loader and I am about to get some hopper bens to set up for grain on my farm
That's great Jacob!! Though I was hoping you would do the Scrooge McDuck LOL
Hate the screech of the metal on metal over the video, I can only imagine what it must of been inside the silo
bin...
Did your family put those bins up years ago? Or did you guys buy the farm like that? I wish we had more infrastructure for grain storage and livestock!
They came with the farm.
wouldn't hurt to blow some air through them for cheap insurance, particularly when its real cold like that...
The BIL in northern Indiana usually just stores corn on the farm, has a nice old bin with a dryer on it. Course you don't want to use heat on the beans unless you want to cook them for your own use. With corn he runs the dryer until he gets it down to about 15% moisture on top, so it'll be about 11-12% on bottom down on the drying floor... course he runs the stirrators to keep the corn turned, except for the bottom foot or two on the floor that doesn't move. Then once they hit the right moisture, he runs the fan for another day to cool the corn down so it doesn't sweat moisture and crust itself in the bin... Once it's cooled down he shuts the fan down, until they get some good cold weather down in the 20's, lower the better, and then runs the fan all night on a good cold dry night to "freeze" the corn in the bin... then it'll stay in good shape all winter. When warmer weather starts to arrive, he'll run the fan on a good warm dry day to warm the corn back up, just so it's not sitting in the bin still freezing cold since it sorta insulates itself; the cold corn would tend to condense moisture out of the air drive the moisture up or cause it to crust. Once it's warmed up in warmer weather, then it's good to go til it's all out of the bin and sold in town...
You'd probably want to do beans the same way... course no dryer so you don't cook them, but blow air through them to make sure that any green pods or green beans in there have a chance to lose their moisture to the air blowing through them instead of making the beans around them damp, which could mold or crust. When you've got a good cold dry night, turn the fan on and freeze them for the winter and you should be good. If you're still holding any that haven't gone to town once the weather starts warming up, maybe run the fan just to blow some air through them and warm them up a bit so they're not sitting there ice cold which could condense moisture from the air and cause mold or crusting... worst thing to deal with is crusted bridging grain breaking up in chunks and plugging your auger or well...
Man Yea, Ford Farming, just need the TW hooked to the 3 wagons
Great storage solution. You are on a mission.
This year I put 1600 bu in a bin that hadn't seen use in 20 years hoping it will pay off in March.
A great job using your head not the check book
the ez trail website shows them filling those little wagons with pumpkins and oranges
That musta been something hitting that waygon with the combine.😂
Yip definitely need to get that sky hook... 😮😉.. sometimes good money can be made out of things in bins 😅.. cracking vid sir.. stay safe 🏴
Sure is a nice set up lots of room a nice road right along side probably could not ask for much more well done sir
If you've got it then you may as well utilize it.
So glad to see your videos again
I've been getting them up every other day for two weeks now
It's all good to store beans but afterwards there's at lot of gasd
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Looks good! Do you typically forward contract crop when prices are higher? Will storage change that system now? Stay safe.
Well if he had a forward contract he'd have been hauling to the elevator right out of the field, unless his contract is for delivery in February or March or something... sounds like he's just open marketing them.
We used to contract a lot of our cotton, BUT the nice thing with a cotton contract is it's an ACREAGE contract, not a bales or pounds of cotton contract like it is with grain... Contracting so many POUNDS or BUSHELS delivered to fill the contract.
Seen guys get into trouble with grain contracts... when I was a kid, Dad and Grandpa had been custom combining all the grain sorghum for a BTO they went to church with... he was bragging and told them, "yall buy a new combine and yall can cut my grain EVERY year!" Well, Dad was tired of strugging with the old Case combine he'd patched back together from all the sodium chlorate holes rusted through it (some guys used chlorate to desiccate the sorghum before combining, but it's basically like running salt through your machine, and in the heat and humidity on the Texas coast isn't a good idea-- rots the combine down like the Titanic on the seafloor-- it just melts over time! Anyway, they bought a new combine and started harvesting for him. They had a black friend who had a grain truck hauling for them, reasonable rates back then for custom hauling, but the BTO didn't like him (probably because he was black) and ran him off. Then after a few days he called up Dad and Grandpa and told them to pack it in, he didn't need them anymore... a neighbor of his up the road pretending to be a BTO had oversold and signed a big contract for a high price on grain sorghum and was way short, and facing ruin having to buy back the contract, so he cut a deal with him where the other guy was buying his entire crop out of the field at the going rate across the scale and was going to combine it and haul it for free... "Sorry you got notes to make the new combine and THOUGHT you had a handshake agreement with me, but that's the breaks, hope it works out for you!" and that was that.
Dad and Grandpa were sweating on how to make the note when it turned out another BTO across the river on the north end of the county had rented a bunch of bottom land along the river bottom, plowed it up, and planted several thousand acres of grain sorghum, to cash in on the high prices. Of course it was a wet June and the morningglory vines came on like gangbusters in the heat and humidity, and ran up and down and across the rows and sewed the whole field up like a mattress with the grain heads inside it. He put the word out to all the custom guys to come to his place on such n such a day and they'd have a competition to see who got the job. Dad and Grandpa drove the new combine over there crossing the river bridge which was tough with an 18 foot header on a two lane bridge on the edge of town, but they got there. Everybody and their dog showed up with every kind of combine you can imagine, from brand new to older machines, Case, International, Deere, Gleaner, Massey, White, Oliver, you name it it was there... They started combining and most guys got from 10-20 yards in and plugged up with green morningglory vines. Locked the machine up tight and had to back out under the pecan trees and clear it out , usually with a knife and tugging green vines out of the cylinder, as there weren't reversers in the 70's... Dad plugged a time or two as well, but the Ford (Claas) had a big cast iron block with holes for a big bar on it on the end of the cylinder shaft, so you could turn the whole machine backwards with a big iron bar to roll plugs out. After a time or two he figured out how to do it... the Claas had a lever and sector under the seat to adjust the concave setting... usually ran it in slot 3 for sorghum. Dad learned that when he saw slug of vines go under the auger, he had a few seconds til it hit the cylinder, and if he reached down about the time he started to hear the "BRRRRRR" of the cylinder bars smashing into the wad, and pushed the lever down to the floor, which opened the concave wide open, the combine would just beat the wad right on through the concave and cylinder and toss it on the walkers, and it'd ride right out the back... some unthreshed heads in it, sure, but it beat plugging... as soon as the "BRRRR" noise stopped, the plug was through, and he'd pull it back up to hole 3 in the sector and she'd go right back to threshing normally... so he could avoid plugging the machine and having to stop. Claas was the only machine that could do that... Deere used a little crank to open the cylinder clearance, that took too long to work because the machine would stall before the concave could be cranked open. IH used bolts to adjust theirs from the ground, Gleaner had a fixed concave in the throat of the machine, even the newest ones had only added a raddle chain under the concave... Within a few hours everybody else gave up and quit and left... too much work unclogging a machine constantly in 100 degree heat, even in the shade of pecan trees... Dad and Grandpa got the whole job-- managed to pay off the combine in a single year with the money they made!
If you're going to contract grain, better not contract more than about half your normal production, in case of a drought or storm ruining the crop. Worst thing in the world is having to buy out a contract that you can't fill, and if the grain prices go the wrong way, it can ruin you...
Great video Jacob.
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What didn’t Nick brake lol 😆
The cage on the bottom of the auger
@@boehmfarm4276 oh ok, he was always fun to laugh at in your videos lol 😆
Good video,
Do you still have the 2 plus 2 our we ever going to see it running again