Yeah but as I and my grandfather both proved over the last week, there are drawbacks and you can’t rely on them.
computer was telling my brother that the beans were ready to harvest. So him and especially my dad were adamantly insisting we run them Saturday. I kept telling them too wet, stalks and pods at the bottom were still green. Jammed up the combine several times and we now have 1,000 bushels sitting in the bin that not only needs dried but we have to run it thru a cleaner because with it being so dense, the beans are full of debris. I wanted to wait a week, until middle of this week, they didn’t. The moisture levels were in the high 17s... the elevators won’t take them over 18. And they dock a .50 cent per percentage point over 13.9 Per bushel. They finally listened about 9 pm Saturday night. Waited until today, as I wanted, and despite the .08 inches of rain we got overnight, the beans ran today tested at 12.6. Perfect! Elevator pays premium of 7 cents per bushel for beans between 12.5 and 13.0.... so we hauled nearly 50 tons to the elevator this evening