crop failing

Well it looks like our nation is going to have the biggest corn crop desaster ever wonder when the board of trade will wake up

I don't think the corn crop will be the biggest failure ever but it will be somewhat short.

They will wake up sometime.

If your sure of a short crop now would be the time to start putting some calls.

I'm not so sure yet.

Western corn belt has been getting some rains.

Gary

I drive over three states kind of regularly, eastern Ia, most of WI, and northern IL. I would not say we have a disaster. There are places that have very good crops and others that are hurting for water. You may be in a place with crops that are hurt but others have excellent crops.

The rains, so far , have been scattered and spotty. You can go four miles from my house and they got 3 inches of rain last week and I got 2 tenths. I have friends in the Dakotas and they say they have very good crops in the dry land areas. They have had more than normal rains.

The genetics are much better than they where in 1988. The crops are stressed but still look pretty good all in all around here. Do they need rain??? YES but they are still early enough along that a good rain can pull them through.

In 1988 I still averaged 90 bushels per acre. This was with twenty straight days of 100 plus temperature in July. So far we have not had that type of weather.

It will get REAL fun for the ethanol guys if we have a short crop and oil prices going down. It will make some of them quit. I am for any fuel that is economically viable. So let the market place take care of what we have to use.

Did you really mean to say "put"ting some calls?
Are you just trying to mess with the simple minds like mine that finally got a grasp of the futures,(buying and selling what you don't have) but are still lost by options?!?!?

I don't know that it's too late yet. We went all the way down through western Ohio the first week in August last year. The corn looked like a TOTAL failure. We came home that next Sunday and it had rained overnight. That must have been the drought buster,because all I heard after that was how good the corn crop was in Ohio.

Valero just idled a Nebraska plant due to high corn prices. They kept the help around to keep the plant up and ready. Jim

most of northeast arkansas crops are leveled ground and have there own water systems crops look great

That was a poor choice of words.

Should have finished the sentence with putting some calls in place.

I was just kidding...........
Still confused anyhow!!!!!!!!

well for several counties in east central ill and Indiana the corn is 3 to 5 foot tall and tasseling and fired a foot up southern Ill. some guys are tearing up corn and planting beans hoping to get a rain

Guys, Central Texas Dryland Corn is looking good with the rains we got back in March, April. Most will begin harvest in about A Month.
Most Texas Panhandle Irrigated Corn is doing well as far as I have heard! So I don't think you can call it a Disaster, Yet.
Later,
John A.
PS... Howard H. could give a first hand report of High Texas, and Okla Panhandle Crops.

SC corn looks the best it has been in years. In the upstate(W part) where I live it needs rain to fill out the ears. Same is ture of my little bit of corn in the garden, and the 1/1o I got yesterday should help. The way the corn leaves slant up is supposed to help catch rain so that even a small amount helps. There is a commercial corn field which has not been planted in corn for years near me that has 7+ feet high corn with ears large, silk brown, and needs rain to fill out the ears. It may have gotten some yesterday.

Corn in the Eastern part of the state should be made and ripening now. They can plant in early March. I try to plant garden corn here the last week in March, but for various weather related reasons I planted in early April.

Of course, the whole State of SC's corn production is probably not as much as one county in IA.

KEH

Seems really spotty and we don't really know yet at least in N.E. Iowa. Friends in Indiana are only expecting a half yield if it does not rain by 4th of July.
Time will tell.