View of the day-The John Deere bit off more than it could chew. The chopper belt was loose so the straw wouldn't go anywhere and eventually they had to start pulling the mess out of the back.
We got to have our eggs for breakfast at the Cattle Crossing Cafe at the sale barn, then we went back to the camper to kill some time before going out to the field.
The original plan was that the farmer was going to do the pickup work on the field that he had swathed, but it was testing around 17% moisture so they quit. They called us to go out around 2pm and came over to work in the same field so we could finish it up and even if it was over 13% they did have a bit of air bin space to dry it down. As it was, the crop was dry enough that they didn't need to do that...plus we were leaving a couple of header widths of greener wheat around the outside of the field that they would look after later.
We finished the field and moved a few miles over to another field and did a round but it was really wet in spots and since it was already 8:30pm we called it a day. Lots of trucks hauling again and a few combines that we can see in the area are making dust, but there is still a lot of green wheat. The weather is not cooperating...16 degrees below the average temps according to the weather channel, and it is supposed to struggle to make 70ยบ this week.
And the rain stayed south...
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