Survey : Knee High by 4th of July?

NY 986 · Jun 30, 2011

I see a lot of corn around me that is a foot and shorter. Have not run the roads hardly at all in June but do go by some early ground on the way to do errands like going to TSC. Probably 12 to 14" tall but have not been by since last Friday and it has been unseasonably cool. I took a chance on some late corn on 19 acres back on June 14 and I am lucky if quite a bit of it is 4". The old timers tell me that this is one of the latest springs ever in terms of getting going on field work. The soybeans look good but are 2 plus weeks behind in the growth cycle. There just was not enough hours in a day when the weather broke this year to get it done on time.
I am not here to sob but maybe somebody has a picture of a real nice, even ahead of schedule corn field they want to show.

Stony Jim · Jun 30, 2011

Well, I am down here in MD and early corn is head high! Hope it rains enough to keep it, roots be a bit shallow from all the rain we had this spring.
Late corn is about half way to the knee.

G.Fields · Jun 30, 2011

No pics, but last weekend my corn was waist high. Got it in on mothers day, and have been blessed with plenty of rain. My part of the world (south east ky) was a mud hole when we should have been doing field work, so I laid the round up and corvus to my wheat, and no-tilled it. This is the first year I no-tilled (only been play farming for 4 years) and have been pleasantly suprised, but I'm still not gonna be totally sold till I see what it makes. With any luck your late crops, and my no-till stuff will turn out good.

JerryS · Jun 30, 2011

Down here it's shoulder/head high and burned to a crisp. Thousands of acres the color of wheat.

IaGary · Jun 30, 2011

Here in eastern Iowa most of the corn is waist to chest high. But I did pass a field that was 4 inches tall today. Wonder if it will make much.

My beans are knee high and I am spraying the second pass of Herbicide on.

Corn grew 12 inches in the past 3 days with the sun shine we are finally getting.

Gary

IaGary · Jun 30, 2011

Jerry where is down here at?

Gary

VADAVE · Jun 30, 2011

Here in Virginia, east of Fredricksburg, corn's over my head, about 7-8 feet in tassel and late. Most years it's been pollenated by now but the cool spring and little dry spell slowed things up. Now we're getting between 1/2 inch and an inch every week.

Gundoctor New Haven VT · Jun 30, 2011

Here in New Haven, Vermont farmer are still planting- some for the third time now. I have farmer with 450 ac. in said he is half done now - so he stop - to late. Most of this is for feed as we are a dairy state. We have alot just coming up.

Very bad for these farmers. Many will have to sell of cattle or go out of business.

David Pidgeon

New Haven, Vermont
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Anonymous-0 · Jun 30, 2011

My best corn is 6 foot. My latest planting is 2 inches tall. Lot of low spots are drowned out. 7 inches of rain the past 7 days. Plenty of corn with wet feet.

john d · Jun 30, 2011

In central Indiana, you can find corn 6 feet tall, and some that's 10 inches tall. A few beans were still being planted today, about 3 miles from me.

skip33652 · Jun 30, 2011

corns been in the ground for two months on the forth of july and it Might make knee high. south central sd Paul

Larry from MD · Jun 30, 2011

Here in southern MD i got 4 inches of rain to save the crop and its 6 to 8 feet high.

buickanddeere · Jun 30, 2011

Usually hope to see the corn in tassel by Aug 1st. Much of the corn ground here has been planted in beans due to soggy fields in May.
There is no corn taller than 10-12" and 6-8" is the norm. The riff raff that plant "weed" in corn fields will be out of luck this year.

JerryS · Jun 30, 2011

Northwest Louisiana, east Texas

Wesley Stephens · Jun 30, 2011

around here the corn is drying up, but the ears are trying to form. In a good year, you'd see guys picking corn in 6 weeks because they plant early varieties to so they can get it out of the field as soon as they can dodge potential hurricanes. We decided to not plant corn for silage this year until we buy a better chopper, and I'm kind of glad we did.

paul · Jun 30, 2011

Lot of corn is just barely knee high by the 4th here in southern MN. Beans mostly look yellow, shrot, and poor, they got in late on the really wet ground....

The last few years, we've had corn chest high on the 4th, and saw some tassels before the 15th on a few early fields.

Not so this year, looks very late fall.....

--->Paul

Pair-a-dice farm · Jun 30, 2011

most of the corn here in NE AR is head high and starting to tassel. The flooding in April and May took care of a lot of it but the rest looks very good.

Anonymous-0 · Jun 30, 2011

southern ill have corn from tasseling to less than a ft high still alot of beans being planted

Anonymous-0 · Jul 1, 2011

my corn was shoulder height , had 3 acres ruined by a 6inch ra in that came in 4hrs,before that we had 2 weeks of 95 degree heat and no rain , been a wet spring here in southern in ... but the other 30 acres look great...

showcrop · Jul 1, 2011

I have seen a range. A field in northern VT that I helped plant in May two years ago was only 5 inches a week ago today. I went through Iowa Weds. and stood by some that was waist high. Last week in northern NH fields that are normally chopped for haylage in early June are turning brown because of lack of chopping conditions. As gun doctor says it's looking like a very bad year for those guys.

INCase · Jul 1, 2011

pretty much the same in North Central Indiana. Some corn may still be less than a foot yet. Most guys working hard on 2nd cutting hay but the forcast changed and we had enough rain to screw up haying last night.

gene bender · Jul 1, 2011

Field next to my garden is sholder high here in eastern central Iowa.

greygoat · Jul 1, 2011

I went East-West across Missouri on Highway 30
on June 15th, and saw corn shoulder high!

tomstractorsandtoys1 · Jul 3, 2011

South west WI our best corn will be shoulder high on the fourth. Our crops are very good most second crop hay was made last week. We cut our fall planted barley on friday. This is a new crop in our area yeilded about 80 bu. and made 100 bale straw to the acre.

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