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What's your crop report?

jon f mn

jon f mn

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As I drive around I see a lot of poor looking crops. A lot of flooded out and uneven from too much water and even more burnt from drought. The drought stressed crops are widely spread from western Iowa south threw Missouri and a large part of Illinois and some in Indiana. And yet the prices stay low like a bumper crop is coming. So what do you think of your crops? Is the damage less than it looks? Or are we in for a short crop and higher prices later?

I've had far too much rain all year so my corn got in a bit late and grew slow because of all the cool and clouds and is just starting to dent. A small section that is very gravely had the fertilizer washed away from all the rain, but the rest looks real good except for being late. So if frost holds out for a while yet I'll be ok.
 
Nosed around a little with my old Fox self propelled opening silage fields today. Did enough to know to wait til Monday. Really, most stuff looks good. Not as good as last year (record crop here) but still very good.
 
We have a great crop of corn here in North-East Iowa. The soybeans look to be a little lower than last year. All in all a big crop around here. Every single thing planted ditch to ditch. The total planted acres is where a lot of the bushels are coming from.
 
Most all here in sw wi have excellent looking crops, was a great year till this last month when it just stopped raining. kind of hurting the beans some on filling out but should have just enough moisture to do it except some rocky spots!
 
I would like to say things are great , but they are not. Still seems to rain too often , nearly every day, and too cool. We are not getting floods , but you still can't get much done when it comes to making hay or combining grain in the rain . We got hammered with rain Monday and Tuesday , and light showers today . I still have 20 acres of haylage to cut and chop , and 55 acres of grain to combine. Silage corn is nice and tall , but the kernels have not dented , and won't de ready to chop till October. Been a tough year.I don't grow soy beans , but they are way behind from what I see.
 
I just do hay - plenty of rain so there's lot's of it - just hard to get it harvested decent.
There's a lot of nice looking beans out there, but a lot of the corn didn't get in till late, and a good frost should be coming any day, so there will probably be a lot of immature corn. I'm in central NY
Pete
 
It's kind of all over the place in PEI Canada. Wet late spring almost no rain all of July,August wasn't much better and now it's starting to get wet. Many of the alfalfa fields in this area had severe winter kill. All of that being said,everyone seemed to get enough hay,the barley and straw turned off quite well. We got 1.2 metric tones (2200#) / AC and over 3 five foot bales of straw/AC. Most of the corn looks decent but there are some fields that look poor. Potatoes far as I know are doing ok.
 
We have plenty of hay- just really starting second cutting instead of third- but the weather hasn't been helping us. We were also about a month late with planting- again the weather. But, there is gobs of junk hay, so the mushroom houses will be happy. And this years corn, though late, is one of the best we've had in years. I really don't wish to see other farmers fall on hard times, but if the mid-west crop is short, it will sure help prices around here.....
 
We are very fortunate here in SW Ontario. It's been a damp cool year, but hay yields were good but tough to get off dry. Soys look really lush and are starting to turn. Wheat was above average, and corn is tall and even and looks good but will be late. Bottom leaves are starting to brown off. We need a very warm dry autumn to get this crop in the bin.Ben
 

Jon , we got good crops in southern ind and down deep into central KY ,i will go to CASE show at Elnora Ind ,thursday ,.,.and will report back if that area loox poor ,but you probably wont hear from me . loox like a load of cement sand will bring more money than a load of corn this fall ,. our weather has been NORMAL this yr ... you mite recall my definition NORMAL , is to experience a WEATHER pattern THAT IS NUTHIN LIKE ANY OF the PREVIOUS 10 years weather pattern ,,. THAT's NORMAL ,. 330 corn , 960 beans ,wheat 425,prices are up in jeffersonville ind this week
 
I've done some yield checking in the last week. Soybeans seem average. Corn down 10-20%. Didn't get rain when it needed it. I'm a small sample size. Mid lower Michigan. I travel from grand rapids to Detroit regularly, and everything is all over the place.
 
Central MI - Our corn is looking real good this year, big double ears on every stalk, and about 10' high. Now the soybeans... We had enough left over seed from last year to plant 2 or 3 fields. We really liked that number of seed. Those 2 or 3 fields look pretty good for the lack of rainfall we have had. However, when we went to order more of the seed number we liked and had used for quite a few years, it was discontinued. BUT, here's the replacement number that is bigger and better we'll sell you!! Well, the number we like would usually make chest high sous. This year without the rain, they are only about waist high in those 2 or 3 fields. All of the other fields with the bigger, better replacement are about kneee high. Won't get those again. We will be trying different numbers next year until we get another good one. Hopefully the nice looking corn evens out the poor soybeans. Usually the other way around. My 4 acres of sunflowers did real good. Kind of unusual to see around here, so all sorts of people were stopping and taking pictures of them/in them. It will be pretty interesting to see how they work out when combined. This was mynfirst year ever growing them.

Ross
 
SW Mn-plenty of moisture but short of heat. Corn is just dented which is only 50 percent yield potential. Soybeans are 2 to 3 weeks behind, partially filled and running out of time. They know some kind of crop is coming and a lot of on farm storage is still full so they know they will either get old corn or new corn at a depressed price as most people don't have enough storage for everything.
 
Made a quick run out to South Dakota last weekend for my brother's wedding. Got about 150 miles into SD and the ditches were nice and green, the old farm looked like springtime as everything was green. Corn never got the rains in time, looked rough in most places. My brother still figured around 80 bpa on my ground. Soys look great, possibly a 3rd cutting of hay now...second was a waste, but had to be cut. We had rain Friday morning, damp and humid, heavy dew every morning, sure didn't feel like September in SD....
 
I'm in Northwest Iowa about 60 miles south of Minnesota and 90 miles east of South Dakota. My farm caught some small rains the surrounding area did not get so my crops look pretty good though behind in maturity. Most of the area around me has been too dry. In the dry areas some corn looks OK and across the road the corn looks very dry. I don't know if this is because of the characteristics of the hybrid or because of tillage or crop rotation practices.

My area has been blessed with rain for several years and I think some farmers forgot about moisture conservation in their tillage practices. One farm north of me a few miles that is on light to sandy ground has always been no tilled and rotated corn-beans successfully. Two years ago this land was bought by a hog company that is raising it's own feed corn. The hog company ripped the land deep before they planted corn last year and got away with it on that light soil because of plenty of rainfall. Last fall they ripped the stalks deep again and planted corn on that ground this year. The rain quit in early June in that area and now the corn looks burned up. The neighbor's corn looks dry but not nearly as bad.
 
South central MN. Very uneven crops. That acre is a bumper crop, this acre is drowned out, the next one is slow to grow.... I don't know how it will end up. Like you, we were mostly too wet all year, but one dry 3 week period to dry out the hill tops and mess them up too.

Beans are getting hit with all the bad too wet diseases just as they should be filling out. So who knows how bad the white mold and stem rots get.....

20 miles from me things look much better.

But a mile the other way and the hail and windstorms really wrecked the crop.

Very hard to judge this crop. It's just so uneven.

And a little behind, the talk of early frost is troubling.

Paul
 
"My brother still figured around 80 bpa on my ground."

Can't feel sorry for you guys up there in corn country. Down here 40 bpa are bragging levels. On the wet-dry thing, utterly amazing at the
variations across the country, especially this year and it's not over. Course I've had dry summers begging for a hurricane....since I'm 300
or so miles inland. Have been standing at my fence dry as a bone and on the other side was a summer pop up shower dumping at a 5"/hr
rate. Like somebody shut off the tap when it got to the fence. Go figure.

Things don't look good for you Florida Folks. Pictures came in this morning on the Weather Channel from St. Martin Island and it's total
devastation. A little island N. of the DR is anticipating 15-20' storm surge today. WC said the airport runway is at 15'. Expecting the surge
to completely cover the island. Not good.
 
NE Wyoming has received at my farm under 3" of liquid H20 all year hay ran 1/4-1/2 ton per acre Barely was 1/3 of normal production but I did have a crop many around me got nothing others have had all their hay fences and pasture burned to ground by wild fires, we will survive
 
Central Kansas...... wet and mild summer - corn is excellent along with our beans and milo.....$3 a bu doesn't help anything for any of us. bean price are still somewhat decent; cotton is the crop to grow around here in the last few yrs.
 
In Central WI it's been too wet all year without enough sun. Beans are ok if they we're planted in mid May. Not a lot were planted till late May or early June. Corn is very uneven with smaller cobs. Just starting to dent now, and that's on the early May stuff. Hay for chopping has been beautiful. Hay for baling has been a challenge to say the least to get off. Small grains did well if they were on good ground. Unfortunately our ground is heavier and we didn't do so hot. Time will tell when the combine is done.
 
It's nice to hear you are so unsympathetic Texasmark1. 80 bu corn at $2.80 (or less)in our area won't go very far towards paying the land, seed fertilizer, fuel, insurance,machinery and misc. costs associated with raising corn.
 
(quoted from post at 19:50:49 09/07/17) It's nice to hear you are so unsympathetic Texasmark1. 80 bu corn at $2.80 (or less)in our area won't go very far towards paying the land, seed fertilizer, fuel, insurance,machinery and misc. costs associated with raising corn.
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Fortunately for my brother the rent is only $50 an acre....and he has crop insurance. Not a good year, but he will survive.
 
It's not the lack of sympathy. It's the stark contrast between growing regions. Farmer's down here put in just as much work as you guys do and lucky to get half the returns you get......and that's on a good year.
 
To quote your words "Can't feel sorry for those of you in corn country" sounds like a lack of compassion to me. Our land sells for 8 to 10k an acre with rent at $150 to $250 an acre and landlords have no plans of coming down. So it doesn't take a mathematical genius to see that 80 bu an acre is a losing proposition. My corn usually yields 150 to 175 bu an acre and I can tell you there isn't much money in it.
 
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