Some of the farmers around here finally hit 14% and have started harvesting their corn. We are at 17.2%.
The days are warmer (which helps) with cold nights, and some wind –see the stalks blowing?
All of this helps dry down the ears, although we don’t want hard winds, that will shell the corn right in the shuck!
Linda
Life on a Colorado Farm 
It’s been warm and dry here too so maybe it’ll continue on down and you’ll be harvesting that corn soon.
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Hope you will be able to harvest your corn very soon, Linda… Sounds like your weather is cooperating.. We had clouds and drizzle here today–and it’s going to get cold tomorrow.
Hugs,
Betsy
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Interesting that you have to wait until everything is dry…but not too dry. Windy…but not too windy. Hope you can find that sweet spot and get a great harvest. When I was a farm kid our corn went to green silage. Messy, stinky and a bother to feed…but the cows LOVED it. It had to be harvested when there was lots of moisture. An early frost was bad news for the final results.
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Wow I like your header picture on today’s post. Must be from the top of Grand Mesa – you can see forever from up there! Beautiful
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I hope you will soon be able to get in your corn. I remember waiting for the corn to dry when I was growing up. It involved waiting and waiting, and then practically working around the clock until the corn was in.
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Linda
You’ll have to explain this to me in an e-mail.
The corn must be DRY & HARD!!!!!
The only corn that I have eaten from out of a garden came
from corn stalks that were still green.
What appears from this photo is dead stalks with corn in those dead
things!!!!
I regret my total ignorance on this corn business – apologies.
Cheers and hopefully a very successful harvest for the the both of you.
The weather from the photo does look promising to you to get to that 14% mark?????
It obviously is a love of farming that you do have – albeit from the corn
confused “mate” from Aussie-land.
Colin
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Such a beautiful picture!
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How do you test the moisture level?
That picture is gorgeous, by the way!!!
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very cold nights and then warming up to 60’s
kinda strange
Hope you get the corn in….
will that be the last thing? and will this be for feed?or silage?
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Nice shot, it reminds me of growing up in Illinois..:-)
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It is such an enjoyable sound the corn stalks rustling.
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