Combining Organic Corn - End of Season Recap
Channel: Grass Creek Farm @ Turtle Lake
Date: 24/11/2022

Corn was planted 33,000 seeds/acre, 2.5 inches deep, on 6/1/22. Organic Viking Seed variety O.58-85P from Albert Lea Seed. I have a Deere 9560sts combine with a 693 head that has the Calmer stalk rolls in it.

The yield looks ok; I won't know total yield/acre until it's all done. There are a few foxtail, pigweed, and water hemp in the endrows, but overall, the weeds look under control. 

I've only been able to get two semi trucks a day here. Each truck will hold about 1100 bushels (weighing 61,000 lbs/28,000 kg), that comes off of a little less than 8 acres (approximately 3.25 hectares) of corn, so it takes a while to get all the acreage combined. I pay to have the corn delivered to the buyer, Cashton Farm Supply in Cashton, WI, about 175 miles away. They are the best buyer of organic corn (price, distance, ability to take wet corn) that I've found.

Next spring we'll work on making that equipment crossing field entrance ramp less steep. A couple loads of gravel should do the trick. Once that's done the semi's can get directly into, and more importantly, out of the field without worrying too much about getting stuck.