Corn and beans in your neck of the woods...

OliverGuy · Aug 15, 2013

I think I'll be burning a lot of diesel this fall, we have been blessed with rain this year. Quite opposite of last year, amazing how much difference there can be. I shelled 8bpa corn last year, hope I don't do that ever again. Sad thing is, with the high prices and crop insurance last year I bet I came out better than this year! I think there's a chance for some 250-275+bpa spots in some of these places around here

IowaJohn · Aug 15, 2013

Finally!!!! Got .6" rain last night, we had .25 late last week so hopefully we can still salvage a crop. First measurable rain since the middle of June. Soybeans are knee to crotch deep, I'm 6' tall, and the corn pollinated to the tip. Both have a long ways to go, west central Iowa

El Toro · Aug 15, 2013

The beans and corn look great here in ne MD. So far this month we've received 6.6 inches of rain and there's more on the way by the weekend. Some of the fields may too wet to get farm equipment in. We use to start silo filling right after Labor Day. Hal

fixerupper · Aug 15, 2013

IowaJohn, I have a picture taken two years ago of an Oliver 88 in beans that were darned near to the top of the rear wheels. (13.6-38) This year in that same location the beans maybe go up to the axles. Come to think of it, I should drive the old girl out to the same spot tomorrow just for a comparison pic. I might be surprised. I'm 17 miles NE of Storm Lake and I'm estimating 42 bushel beans and 150 bushel corn. The average on my farm is 48 and 185. I have one rented 60 that's at least 25% drowned out. I saw it from the air a week ago. The herbicide program worked OK because all I saw was bare ground in the drowned spots but there's no corn there either. One 178 acre bean field looks great from the ground but the view from the air shows dozens of little bare spots where small puddles of water stood too long last spring.Jim
OK, here's an edit. What in the world happened to turn the eight in thirty eight in to a smiley face?

Frank 41 · Aug 15, 2013

I think last year's yields will match or better this year in my heavy ground in central IL. I think like you, that get up in the air or climb a leg and see the holes and light yellow corn without any N. The beans that were under water are a foot or so shorter than the others and you know the higher ground will not make up the difference.

When the general economy gets better like it is starting, our party is over. We will be back handling money. If we have an early fall, the drying bill will take a bunch.

IowaJohn · Aug 15, 2013

Jim, From your earlier posts I gathered that you were somewhere around Storm Lake/Cherokee area. You're closer to my BIL's that I originally thought. They Farm in the curlew/Emmettsburg area. I live NE of Harlan, I really wanted to go to the Albert City show but alas we had a family get together, hopefully next year. I'm still hoping for 160-70 corn and 40-45 beans. The warm weather we're s'posed to get next week will help bring the crops along. I hope that fall is warm and dry so we don't have to wait on dryers. I work by myself so if I can run and dump it goes alot faster. John

John_PA · Aug 16, 2013

(quoted from post at 20:09:17 08/15/13) IowaJohn, I have a picture taken two years ago of an Oliver 88 in beans that were darned near to the top of the rear wheels. (13.6-38) This year in that same location the beans maybe go up to the axles. Come to think of it, I should drive the old girl out to the same spot tomorrow just for a comparison pic. I might be surprised. I'm 17 miles NE of Storm Lake and I'm estimating 42 bushel beans and 150 bushel corn. The average on my farm is 48 and 185. I have one rented 60 that's at least 25% drowned out. I saw it from the air a week ago. The herbicide program worked OK because all I saw was bare ground in the drowned spots but there's no corn there either. One 178 acre bean field looks great from the ground but the view from the air shows dozens of little bare spots where small puddles of water stood too long last spring.Jim
OK, here's an edit. What in the world happened to turn the eight in thirty eight in to a smiley face?

you put a ) after the 8. an 8 with a ) after it makes a "cool" emoticon, because the 8 is like sunglasses on a smiley face 8)

really makes it hard to interpret sometimes... but I got what you were saying.

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