Corn Up North

rusty6 · Aug 16, 2020

I say up North but I'm in South Sask. We don't see a lot of corn grown locally but one guy grows a field every year for winter grazing for his cattle. I took a couple of pictures of it tonight while out for a drive with the Merc.

Bruce from Can. · Aug 17, 2020

Looks like a decent crop of silage corn. Is there just
not many that keep livestock, or is there just too
many implantable acres that are cut for hay to need
to plant/grow forage ?

Mike(NEOhio) · Aug 17, 2020

We went to the Boston area last week. The corn I could see looked like it was real good year. Dead even in height all across the fields with no low growth along the
edges. Not the same through Pa. and Ohio.

fastfarmall · Aug 17, 2020

The corn looks good, A lot of grazing there, if the snow doesn't get to deep !

rusty6 · Aug 17, 2020

(quoted from post at 03:00:20 08/17/20) Looks like a decent crop of silage corn. Is there just
not many that keep livestock, or is there just too
many implantable acres that are cut for hay to need
to plant/grow forage ?

Maybe ten years ago I remember seeing some making silage of crops like oats but don't see it any more locally. I've seen some putting alfalfa bales into the big plastic bags. Not sure if that is a form or silage or what.

JimB2 · Aug 17, 2020

Rusty, two summers ago when we did a road trip from Winnipeg to Calgary, we noticed lots of corn and soybeans being grown south and west of Winnipeg. I had been in the same area in 2005 and there was only
grain crops been grown then.

miner09 · Aug 17, 2020

Global Warming--Saw a farm report several days ago and it was about
different crops being grow in Canada now due to warmer days. Don't
remember the increase in temperate the last few years. Seems they even
gave some 90 degree days now.

rusty6 · Aug 17, 2020

(quoted from post at 13:31:22 08/17/20) Global Warming--Saw a farm report several days ago and it was about
different crops being grow in Canada now due to warmer days. Don't
remember the increase in temperate the last few years. Seems they even
gave some 90 degree days now.

We just had one of those 90 degree days today and I was glad to be riding the Magnum with working ac. 90 degrees is nothing new for us in August but it is a little above average. We still don't get enough of those days to mature a crop of corn. Some guys tried soybeans too but from what I have heard its not hot enough for them here either.

unc · Aug 17, 2020

Rusty6- is that field irrigated or dryland? unc

rusty6 · Aug 17, 2020

(quoted from post at 18:06:23 08/17/20) Rusty6- is that field irrigated or dryland? unc

All dryland crops here. I don't know of any local irrigation systems. One guy tried it years ago but it didn't work out for some reason. So we are totally dependent on what falls from the sky. Some years too little, some too much, and some years just right. I think we are pretty close to just right this year.

buickanddeere · Aug 17, 2020

(quoted from post at 16:31:22 08/17/20) Global Warming--Saw a farm report several days ago and it was about
different crops being grow in Canada now due to warmer days. Don't
remember the increase in temperate the last few years. Seems they even
gave some 90 degree days now.

It is the shorter day hybrids that are making northern corn and beans possible

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