....The first of July? Not this year. This picture was taken May 16 2017, corn is 3
2 to 3 leaf stage. This year's corn is not quite at that stage today, June 16. Most
years, the corn is easily waist high by July 1, but it needs to grow 2 inches per
day to be knee high by then. Pretty sure that's not going to happen given the cool
forecast with 2 days of rain this week. We need the rest of the summer and well
into the fall to be excellent growing conditions for the crops to mature. There may
be a lot of grade 3 and 4 corn or poorer with harvest moisture well over 30 percent
and small chance of getting winter wheat in after a late soy harvest. Starting to
look like 1992, the year of no summer when a lot of crop around here was plowed
down since it was immature and moulded in the field. I did help a neighbour cut
silage corn in November that year....ever had snow build up and freeze on the
gathering chains on the harvester? C'mon Sunshine!
Ben
2 to 3 leaf stage. This year's corn is not quite at that stage today, June 16. Most
years, the corn is easily waist high by July 1, but it needs to grow 2 inches per
day to be knee high by then. Pretty sure that's not going to happen given the cool
forecast with 2 days of rain this week. We need the rest of the summer and well
into the fall to be excellent growing conditions for the crops to mature. There may
be a lot of grade 3 and 4 corn or poorer with harvest moisture well over 30 percent
and small chance of getting winter wheat in after a late soy harvest. Starting to
look like 1992, the year of no summer when a lot of crop around here was plowed
down since it was immature and moulded in the field. I did help a neighbour cut
silage corn in November that year....ever had snow build up and freeze on the
gathering chains on the harvester? C'mon Sunshine!
Ben
