Here in Northern Illinois the corn/bean harvest start and completion depend
on when the crop was planted in the spring and weather in the fall. A general
start is late Sept for a few fields that were planted early with harvesting
continuing into the end of October early November. Usually by Thanksgiving
fall plowing is largely completed.
Do keep in mind that this time frame is for current practices. I suspect the
farther back in time you wish to depict the slower and longer the process.
I've been told by more than one old time farmer about picking corn with many
inches of snow on the ground.
On the rail side, cars(40ft box and later the covered hoppers) would be
staged in late summer/Sept. for the harvest. Shipments start immediately and
run
well past harvest completion. Of course with modern practices grain shipments
now take place year around in unit trains. This is also the time commercial
fertilizers,lime,etc would be arriving for fall and spring applications.
Anyhdrous Ammonia would move in the winter/early spring for spring application.
Going back in time to the 40s and earlier this would also be the time for
heavy arrival of coal at the retail yards and industries before everything
converted to natural gas.
Fall was the heavy overtime period in T&E service. Then came late November
and the slump and often the layoffs.
Leo Phillipp
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