Corn dying

David G · Jul 3, 2012

I am seeing the corn firing here in Eastern Iowa. It is in full tassel right now.

Anonymous-0 · Jul 3, 2012

I sure wish I could of sent you guys some rain, we are getting are fair share up here, thats for sure!

David G · Jul 3, 2012

Temps in the mid 90s for the last few days, and forecast in
the mid 90s for the next few days.

No rain in the forecast.

jon f mn · Jul 3, 2012

Just drove from Indianapolis to Topeka and back to eastern Ia. Eastern Ia. has the best crops in all that erea. In the last 10 days I've been accross Il., In., Mi., Mo., Ia., and Ks. The crops in all those states are a few days from total disaster. In all my years as a driver I've never seen the crops this bad over so large an erea. They did get a bit of rain in nw. In. a couple a days ago, but I don't think it will hold them too long.

David G · Jul 3, 2012

It is just starting here, a few more days of +90 and no rain, and we will be like that also.

donjr · Jul 3, 2012

While we didn't get started as early as we could have because a lot manure, our corn is head high and it's the fourth of July. We got a couple of dust cutters last week and 4/10's of an inch of rain two days ago. And with the rain you guys keep sending east, we may get a super crop yet even with this mid-90 degree heat. It's lookin' good---

cole in mo. · Jul 3, 2012

Here in just north of mid mo. corn planted in march is tassled, with ears the size of pop corn, late corn is waist high, stalks the size of your thumb, and the leaves almost dead. Beans are no better, early ones still look green, but not much heigth, late ones, one to two inches tall.

northvale-PA · Jul 3, 2012

we are a little too dry in the York 'barrens'.

WJD · Jul 3, 2012

I heard (2nd hand) but from a reliable source somebody had given up on rain, considered his corn crop a total loss and was disking it up. This was in southern Indiana.
To make matters worse power and phones were off 20 hours from Sun. P.M. until late Mon. 100+ deg. temps. High winds with scattered but minimal rain. Trees down, etc.
Also heard the local John Deere dealer has had (again second hand information) several orders cancelled.

Spook · Jul 3, 2012

Soybeans across the road from us look pretty bad. It's pretty sandy soil here, drys out pretty quick. Some bushes I planted last year, and mulched real heavy are doing fine. The lawn is mostly brown.

larry from md. · Jul 3, 2012

Same here in maryland.

tjdub · Jul 3, 2012

> In all my years as a driver I've never seen the crops this bad over so large an erea.

All you have to do is take a look at the <a href="http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/">drought monitor map</a> to realize what a mess we're in at the moment. There have been hard and brutal droughts over the past few decades (TX/OK last year and in the South before that), but a drought across pretty much the whole corn belt at the worst possible moment is what we're looking at right now. If the hot and dry weather pattern doesn't change in the next 2 weeks (and they're not supposed to) I wouldn't be surprised to see $10 corn this fall.

I don't grow corn, but I've always bought corn to pre-condition my feeder cattle. This year, the calves are most likely going to "go green"

John_PA · Jul 4, 2012

I thought this was the year for 300 bu/a?

I guess now the price of corn will start to rise again, price of gasoline will rise also. Lots of people don't equate the two, but, that's why we are seeing such low pump costs. external_link will be mad if the crop goes south and futures go back up. All those uninformed people will blame him, not the weather for the gas prices. It's the price they pay for not making a correlation.

just plain sickening on all aspects...

Maybe I will salvage some. I shouldn't have bought the combine this year. I'll already be taking a loss.

edit: changed my "teh" to "the" I type too fast.

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