Swathing soybeans just ahead of combine
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Speed mainly and less risk of rock in combine. Also I have a 42 ft rigid header swather 36. Once the sun starts to go down the beans are tougher to cut with the combine head so if they are in a swath maybe your days are a bit longer
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I agree shatter would be a concern
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I didn't own a straight cut header of any kind last year. We swathed ours and neighbour used a JD flex (auger) header on his CTS. I would say we had less loss with the swather. Shelling wasn't a problem, beans we about 16-18%.
even your pickup header doesn't pick up all the beans either.
airreel or flexdraper.
would never use a rigid header, seen 1 guy doing it, he prob left 5 bushels if not more in the field.
lots of guys here used swathers, they all changed after they saw how much they left in the field.
airreel or flexdraper.
would never use a rigid header, seen 1 guy doing it, he prob left 5 bushels if not more in the field.
lots of guys here used swathers, they all changed after they saw how much they left in the field.
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How many days ahead of the combine did u swath?
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this year my 33003s from thunder are about 4 to 6 inches to first flowers I would think that you could swath with this variety. you would have to see pod clearances on other varieties though
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When we started growing soys back in the 90's nobody around here had even heard of flex heads and we all swathed. It worked okay because you would swath days before the stuff was mature enough to combine and the shatter was negligible. The crap part was putting the dirt through the combine trying to pick up the swath. We learned a lot from the edible bean guys around us borrowed their pickup heads a few times to do a better job. A little dirt tag helps with the bushel weight. 
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Windrowing soybeans is the only way we can raise them. Here's one video on my channel of
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But we cut them at leaf drop which is physical maturity. There is no more dry matter collected at that point, so we cut them then and wait about a week, then combine. There's video of that too on my channel if you are curious.
But we cut them at leaf drop which is physical maturity. There is no more dry matter collected at that point, so we cut them then and wait about a week, then combine. There's video of that too on my channel if you are curious.
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We swathed ours on the same day. It was ready to combine, was the last nice day of the year. Swathed directly in front of combine for the most part. But I wasn't dealing with real dry beans. 35' macdon header. Tilt it all the way forward and let it float on the ground. It was on great land though. Most of the loss was cutting pods in half, and that would have happened on any unit.
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Curious why some of you have to swath the beans. Why not put the header on the combine and go. Just seems like an extra trip to me, and I am really surprised that sickle shatter is not astronomical. Different methods of harvesting the same crop for different areas of the world, just wondering why the swathing?
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Don't own a straight cut header was the main reason haha, not a lot of people in the part of the world do! Second, up here, I don't think there is a year when the beans would be dry enough to shatter out, maybe if October was 30 degrees everyday.
Zero. Combined right behind the swather.
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