2014 Corn Harvest

The 2014 corn harvest is in the books.  The crop suffered greatly from lack of rain this summer but turned out better than we expected.  We use a weigh buggy to calibrate our yield monitor in the combine.  The yield monitor measures the yield every few seconds as we go across the field.  It references the GPS coordinates from the GPS receiver to correlate the yield at that exact spot in the field.  We use this data to build custom seeding and nitrogen prescriptions for our fields each year so it is important to have the yield monitor calibrated properly. 

The videos show us unloading corn from the combine onto the grain cart "on the go."  This speeds up harvest as the combine never stops harvesting to unload or drive across the field to a truck.  This greatly increases our harvest efficiency.

A panoramic view of the field office.

Robertson County, TN harvest sunset over Red River.

Unloading the corn into the grain elevator pit.  Most of our corn goes through our grain system to remove excess moisture with the dryer to prepare it for storage in the bins.  We will store the corn until spring and deliver it to end users.

Sherman and William on the first day of corn harvest 2014.