04 Oct Kimberly: Bean harvest is a go
September was here and gone in the blink of an eye, and our soybean harvest has officially started.
Mychal moved from Westhope to Turtle Lake, North Dakota, to start on soybeans. He has been cutting beans for the past four days with two machines. The beans in this area are having some pretty decent yields as they are on irrigated pivots. They may have done a little better, but they have been hailed on a few different times during the growing season. We have noticed that some are ripe and about to shell out, but some of the other fields aren’t as ripe. With the hail, it may have made the plant weak.
Cole and Roger finished up near Langdon and brought three machines home to work on our beans before heading to Finely, North Dakota. They took one of their machines to Logan, so he now has five going in Westhope and has started on beans there. That means we have all 10 machines on beans now. The weather is being very cooperative for us. This past weekend we had temperatures in the upper 80s to low 90s, which I love, but it dropped down and will only make it to the mid-60s this week. The heat has helped finish off the beans, so now our big fall push has begun.
It doesn’t seem like it should be fall harvest yet. Don’t get me wrong. I absolutely love fall, but that only means another harvest season is coming to an end, and winter is around the corner. I am not ready for that.
The kids and I spent the weekend in Turtle Lake with Mychal and got to make a few meals for the guys and help move equipment. Bentley got to spend a little time in the grain cart and the combine before heading back to our ‘routine.’
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