What's the crop report

jon f mn · Jun 26, 2020

Missed the rain last night even tho it was 80% chance. No rain predicted for two weeks either. That makes us very dry. The lighter soil the corn is curling and burning already. Went from rain every other day last year to none this year. Now I'll have to decide if it's worth putting on the nitrogen that I was going to put on now. Hate to waste the money if it's not going to rain. What does it look like by you? Looks like souther and western Minnesota got some last night.

Bruce from Can. · Jun 26, 2020

We have had very little rain, about a half inch last week, first rain in over two weeks. First cut was light, and fields have turned green, and corn and spring grain are doing good, but a shot of rain would really help to make things happen on my farm in South Central Ontario, 50 miles north of Lake Ontario.

Traditional Farmer · Jun 26, 2020

We have been wet but not as much rain as the last two years.Cut hay Wednesday,called for 10% chance of rain yesterday but had a pretty good shower.Still should be able to bale today.Hope the garden will be dry enough to cultivate by tomorrow.I'll take wet over dry anytime.

Bob Bancroft · Jun 26, 2020

Same here in central NY. Rain has been very sparse and spotty this month. Lawns are brown. Second cutting is about non existent. Corn is rough, but hanging on, as we are drawing down ground moisture two, or three months early. I have not been happy with the corona disrupted market, and having most of my old crop corn in the bins. Should be half gone by planting time, and more by now. But, I'm beginning to think this might be a good thing.

db4600 · Jun 26, 2020

We had a dust teaser last night. We did get about 3/10 last Saturday but the lawns are going brown. Corn is knee to waist high except for that poor fella who plowed down his alfalfa and planted last week. Small grain is early, short, and light. It seems like rain has gone west of #71 and north of #27. Jennifer Wojchicki says chance on Sunday.

rrman61 · Jun 26, 2020

It was dry but not now;probably got 4” in the last 5 days here in south Louisiana

SHALER · Jun 26, 2020

In east central ohio its been pretty good so far. Generally ,corn got planted just a little late, but not much. wheat beginning to turn. Adequate moisture so far but heat units have been a little below normal. First crop hay yields were light due mostly to very cool spring. Guys that got hay off in late May early June will have a good 2nd crop.

Richard G. · Jun 26, 2020

Son's corn crop was beginning to hurt and curl up, then got several good rains.
It is beginning to fill out ears now.
Soybeans are about 6 inches high and latest planting just came up.
Hope we can keep getting rain.
Richard in NW SC

M Nut · Jun 26, 2020

Same here about 40 miles north of you. Put down Nitrogen on all my hay fields and pastures for the 80% rain last night and this morning, got nothing. It’s really dry here too. We had two pop up showers we weren’t predicted to get this last week, 4/10 in one, 1/10 from another. I’m really hoping we get something like that again this week, or else my $$$$ for Nitrogen will just evaporate away.

paul · Jun 26, 2020

And raining this morning.

I just have to pull the sprayer out of the shed and it starts raining. Had little showers all week, every other day. Wait until 4pm for the mud to dry down a little. I’m soraying with my little 4wd comoact tractor and 100 gallon 3pt sprayer so I can get through. We had nearly 4 inches of rain a week ago, everything is mud.

We have a chance or rain 4 of the next 5 days.....

Sure wish I could share with you, from not that far away!

No fun watching your crop burn up, that’s for sure.

Paul

Case Nutty 1660 · Jun 26, 2020

Jon, as you know my hay crop is very sad,, but because I summer fallow my grain crops are doing Very well considering I have gotten less than 4" of H20 since last September total including the little snow we got last winter,,

my hay is making maybe a 1/4 ton a acres average

I do not seem to have any shots of my grain from this week,, the Barley has headed since this one was taken,, as we did get a 1" of rain last week,, the forage winter wheat looks like it will make 3 ton a acre and is almost 4' tall now

not great shots here but this is the forage wheat

john in la · Jun 26, 2020

We have had our share plus some of rain.

What little corn I have seen is in full tassel. Sugar cane looks good. Seeing lots and lots of beans this year and they also look good.

chcase · Jun 26, 2020

We started out dry and now we are getting rain. Jon if you knife in nitrogen instead of spreading dry it will help to not stress the corn as bad.Good luck

showcrop · Jun 26, 2020

The corn was up six inches high but the ground has been sucking the plants back in to get the moisture out of them.

NY 986 · Jun 26, 2020

Crops are extremely poor and a lot of it never germinated as it went in very late as we entered this dry period we are in currently. Talking 2-3 tenths of rain on average for tomorrow morning which will do very little good at this point in time. I guess that I am harvesting the crop insurance money instead of the crop by the looks of it.

paul · Jun 26, 2020

Wow, my iPad has turned on me, it converts my poor typing into a language no one can understand, and the editing window of this forum uses extremely small type so it is difficult for me to proofread.

Sorry, this message was worst than most.

I have been spraying with my small compact tractor with a 100 gallon 3pt and 20 foot boom to get through the wet spots, float/ scratch through with less damage then the tow sprayer would cause with a bigger tractor.....

Ive got to be near 5 inches of rain in the past 2 weeks, and we had a bad 3 inch flooding rain in mid May,. It was getting very dry on the surface for lawns and such, but the crops were staying green and healthy with the deeper roots they have, even on the light ground.

Some of the showers that have caught me were about a mile wide, dump a quick .15 on me, 2 miles away folk didn’t even know there was rain in the area. Had that happen 3 days in a row. It’s been crazy. Tho nothing like the past 4 years.

Still have 1/2 my hay to make, and the forecast is 20-40% chance of rain more days than not the rest of the week.

Well, see how the spell checker butchers this post.....

Paul

4520BW · Jun 26, 2020

After the 2 inches of rain we finally got following a 3 week dry spell things are looking good. All the 28 is on and got the beans sprayed before the June 20th deadline. First cutting of hay went great, had some low humidity days so it dried fast and was a good green color. Planed my last patch of sweet corn for the year yesterday.

jal-SD · Jun 26, 2020

Here in SE SD, we've had some good shots of rain in the last couple of weeks. We were getting dry but got a good 2" couple of weeks ago followed by 3-4 days of wind that dried everything out. We have good sub-soil moisture from all rain we've had in the last couple of years of abnormal moisture, but topsoil was becoming short. Had wind & about an inch last nite on top of a little early in the week so we're OK for awhile, no hail.

tractorkrum · Jun 26, 2020

Here in west central WI, we have been having popup rains nearly other day this week. Really tough putting up hay. Get a rain and then two days without and hay is almost ready to go and it rains again. Rains have been real pounding ones making the ground hard.

IowaJohn · Jun 26, 2020

WC Iowa here. We got 1.1" last weekend with 2 rains, really perked corn and beans up. Some corn had started rolling again yesterday, with the 90 degree days coming up we really could use more. Corn is anywhere from chest to head high, I'm 6'.Beans are a little over a foot tall and pretty well shading 15" rows.

DRussell · Jun 26, 2020

Here in PA the weather has been great and the crops are gorgeous. About 1" of rain every week early Sunday morning then no rain the rest of the week. Otherwise gorgeous blue skies with a few clouds and light westerly winds. Corn is chest high, beans are looking great. All first crop hay is cut and in the barn with no rain. Second crop is being cut in places, also beautiful high quality, high protein hay. Things are great!!!

Yeah right!!!

David G · Jun 26, 2020

East central Iowa, crops were slow starting, but are looking good better now, right amount of rain but cool.

rustred · Jun 26, 2020

well its so go_ da_ wet here i seeded my barley with the fertilizer spreader on top and harrowed it in on june 12th. sprayed the crop today. growing good but low land still has water sitting and field looks like a jig saw puzzel. plus i combined last years crop this spring also. disced some of the left over stubble couple days ago and was spinning pulling the disc. with that straw on top the ground dont want to dry . discing sure helped as i went out today and it dried up quite a bit. but more rain coming now tonight. been on this farm 60 years and have never saw this kind of weather of this farm this wet. central alberta. i also noticed today there is still people seeding today around here. mr. jack frost will have a hayday with it in the fall!

fastfarmall · Jun 26, 2020

When NH3 first came into our area, in about 59 or early sixty's they told my dad that it wont hurt the corn also, i don't know how much they put on, i was 13 yrs old then, but it was dry and burned my dads corn, you could see when they left a test strip, i was to young to know what ever happened to the corn field, but dry fert might of been worse!

centash · Jun 27, 2020

We couldn't really ask for a better spring....a bit cool to start, but all crops went in well, it was a bit dry but crops showed no curling....in Ottawa now and everything across southern and central Ontario looks good to excellent....so far....

Ben

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