Stuart Barden in Kenya

Sunday, May 11, 2014

First harvested Sorghum for 2014

I harvested the first box load of our latest sorghum crop on Friday, the grain moisture was 18% so need to wait a while longer, I weighed it over the weighbridge (in the truck) and when the weight was adjusted down for the high moisture it was yielding 2.2 t per ha. A bit better than I had expected and I was in about the average of the crop, obviously very hard to tell if it will average a bit more or a bit less.
In Australia a Harvester (combine, header) is also know as a lie detector, as this machine reveals the true yield, as it will in our crop shortly.
The grain quality is excellent, this 6.6t is now drying on our shed floor in a thin layer.
 

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