Homesteading - Our Last Soya bean farm of the year

Greetings to everyone in this community, i hope we are all having a wonderful day. Before I begin I want to use this opportunity to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a happy new year. As most of you know, especially those into farming and stuffs it is around this time we harvest our crops. So today i want to share with you a little farmstead post on how we harvested our soya beans Farm. I’m really excited to share this with you guys.

Before we began harvesting and collecting the soya beans, we had to do a little survey around the farm to determine the nature of it, when we went round the farm, we noticed that all the beans where a 100% dried no fresh ones like the last time. So this meant that we could start the harvest. We also saw that some of the bean stalk popped already due to over drying of the stalk. But however it seems relatively moderate compared to what we experienced in last year soya beans farm.

After spying the whole farm, we went back in and changed into our work attire. We started from the far end of the farm. We usually pull the whole soya bean stalk and gather them into separate bundles, this makes it very easy at the end. Because all we will have to do is to collect everything again and now put them in one place for thrashing.

We spent about 4 days pulling out all the soya beans. And then with the help of our motor, we gather the small heaps of soya beans we had initially put at separate place’s together. This was much faster than carrying them one after the other. We went around the farm collected the heaps of soya beans into the back of the motor truck. And when and dumped them at the gathering spot. this was done on repeat until the we exhausted all the small heaps and then we had two huge ones.

This year we planned to use the soya bean thresher to work on them but unfortunately for our side we couldn’t find the machine so we had to look for other options, that is to use the tractor to thresh them again. We called the operator to drive the tractor to the farm and help us to thrash the soya beans. He spent about two hours and finally he was done. We then had to find women who would help us separate the chaff from the beans. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to take pics as it was kinda late.

After the whole process was done, we had about 9bags of soya beans. Which we didn’t expect. We were actually hoping for more but we understood that if we had used the actual machine to thresh them we would have had more. Because most of the seeds remained on the ground. Thank you for stopping by. Have an amazing day.