Fellow Mn/wis/IA farmers. How are your crops looking?

Dave from MN · Jul 16, 2011

I have corn starting to tassel in some areas, looking real good, dark green yet, and tall. Stalks little thinner than I like to see but feild's mostly have good wind break. I would say 80% of my corn is looking like that, but then I have one feild that is looking pretty sick. Near as we can figure it is lacking Mag and zinc. Yellow striped, slow growth, may end up having to chop if it doesnt get into high gear soon. COOP was supposed to hit this past week with a foliar, but havent heard if they got it yet. My genuity soybeans in 30" rows are doing great, little behind for maturity but should be OK, they are 1.4's. My drilled beans , non genuity, are looking pretty rough, lot of drowned out spots, thin stand, and looks like alot of that feild also lost plants some how, rain erosion, pop is only about 60-70,000 right now, planted at 140,000, and looked decent when they came out of the ground. 2" rain yesterday in a short time, gonna check poor feilds again today for more wash outs, drowning out.

IaGary · Jul 16, 2011

We are looking good here in east central Iowa.

We missed that wind storm Monday morning that layed the corn down. That strip is about 30 miles north to south and runs from about the southwest side of the state to the northeast side.

3 weeks ago we wanted the rain to slow down. Well it did and now we could use a rain as most of the corn is tasseling.

Beans are about 30" tall and if the japanese beetles get much worse we are gonna have to start spraying for them.

All and all were Okay.

Gary

paul · Jul 16, 2011

Everything is several weeks behind.

In general the corn looks good, but behind. Several yellow short areas from the rain rain rain. But that's a 'here' thing, not surprising.

Beans look small and slow and not so good. They depend on good August/September... We will see.

I got one field of corn - call it an experiment. Was plowdown clover alfalfa from last year. With all the rain, field cultivated 2x, planted corn in it. Had LL corn seed left, it was evening and rain in the morning and June was a couple days away, so put the seed in.

Was going to spray a dicomba product to kill the clover/alflafa.

Three weeks of rain/ SE wind later.... Neighbor had beans next to it, to the east..... I ain't gonna try that, had my bean field east of it also.

So the clover/alfalfa took back the field, and it's been a struggle to get the corn to show up.

That's why we experiment right, see what works and what doesn't....

--->Paul

brian(MN) · Jul 16, 2011

Crops are uneven here. There is a corn tasle here and there in some fields. Lots of compacted and wet spots that are very short and will produce nothing. The wind /hail storm that went through here 2 weeks ago caused alot of green snap and the hail broke off stalks (especially in taller fields). We figure we have a 30% stand loss on the corn and beans. Beans are late. No "bin buster" yeilds in Renville county this year. We are very wet with over 2 inches again this past week. Forecast is for 90 degree plus for a week.

fixerupper · Jul 16, 2011

NW IA by Albert City crops are looking pretty darned good. Corn is tasseling uneven with the high spots tasseling but the low spots are behind somewhat. Beans are about average height for this time of year. Everything is in a growth spurt. We've had little two tenths rains every couple of days on ground that's fully charged with water but not ponding. North of me a ways, by the Minnesota border there's a lot of flooding. They've had a couple of 3-5" rains. Jim

Mitch D · Jul 16, 2011

Here in west central WI corn is all doing very well where is didnt get drowned out early in the year, no tassles yet. Our beans are 15 inch rows, and are coming along nicely

rustyfarmall · Jul 16, 2011

Here in southwest Iowa the corn is all tassled and has ears. Most of the farmers were about one month later getting it planted, but you'd never know it now.

Bob/wis · Jul 16, 2011

Gary,
We had the great luck of getting in the wind monday morning. What a mess leveled all the corn on our place. With in a few days it was back up but badly goose necked. One feild lost abotu a 1/4 due to snapping off. Going to be fun harvesting it.
Bob

NEIADan · Jul 16, 2011

Here in NE Iowa I have never seen such a consistently good crop. tassles started showing the 12th as compared to the tenth last year. Even though we planted at least 2 weeks later. Normally I would see some wet yellow spots in the corn but not this year. 98 % of all corn here is excellent. Most of the beans are average but consistent stands.

Big M · Jul 17, 2011

A report from a little further south and west. What is a corn tassel? Acres and acres of corn, no ears, no tassels and turning brown. Some have tried to swath and bale the corn but it is very high in nitrates. This was not the year for corn in Kansas.
It was over 100 degrees everyday last week and forecast is for the same this week with 0% chance of rain.

Fellow Mn/wis/IA farmers. How are your crops looking?

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