Crop talk

jon f mn · Aug 24, 2020

Just wondering how your crops are? Oats is off and straw is
done, both disappointing but not terrible. First crop hay was
poor, second was better, third looks good. Corn looks good
and is denting.

Most of the summer was borderline dry, but we got 4" in the
last week and more before that, so water is sitting again. Not
terrible wet yet but will be if it keeps up.

jal-SD · Aug 24, 2020

Looking good in SE SD, Mitchell area. We have had some timely showers, have good sub-soil moisture because of wettest year in history last year. If we don't get any rain in solid form, we should have a descent crop year.

tomturkey · Aug 24, 2020

I see on the news here in Iowa pictures of farmers disking in the damaged corn. BIG tractor and wide disk. I thought it would be much tougher to disk down than it looks. Really too bad probably 200+bpa corn in a lot of places. gobble

flying belgian · Aug 24, 2020

Would it be better to disk it down green? or leave it dry up and disk it right before freeze up?

Bruce from Can. · Aug 24, 2020

Things look pretty good for us right now in my back yard. Made 145 bales of second cut of 40 acres, and corn looks great

David G · Aug 24, 2020

Probably closer to 250-260 BPA

4520BW · Aug 24, 2020

This may be my best crop ever! Been getting plenty of rain when needed but making it hard to cut hay. Just started on my third cutting of grass and alfalfa is ready for the fourth.

flying belgian · Aug 24, 2020

Oats was good. Corn looks above average. Beans without dicamba damage look above average and beans with dicamba damage are about half a crop. If they don't outlaw that dicamba for next year I will have to plant dicamba beans. If you can't beat them you have to join them. I cannot afford another hit from that stuff.

Mark-Ia · Aug 24, 2020

I saw a field just outside of LeGrand Iowa that was disked today. Looked like normal fall tillage to me.

SVcummins · Aug 24, 2020

More hay than i need, more grass than the cows will ever eat in two years and the calves look as good as they ever have

paul · Aug 24, 2020

I would guess getting the ear to either rot or sprout now, so it’s less problem next spring, would be the goal?

Paul

tomstractorsandtoys · Aug 24, 2020

Good crops but not bumper crops here in southwest WI. Seeing some sudden death in a few soybean fields and the lighter soils need rain. Rye yeild was average but only 1/2 the straw as some years. Corn silage is getting close. Tom

casecollectorsc · Aug 24, 2020

You are lucky...NESD has a dry spell. Biggest rain all season was 2 1/2 weeks ago...1.25"...also the last. Crops are tuning rapidly here and lawns are brown.

centash · Aug 24, 2020

Crops are excellent here in mid western Ontario. First cut hay was very good, second cut varied depending on timing of cutting. Small grain crops were very good due to the cool spring and lots of heat and timely rains. Corn and soys suffered in the 35 day hot drought, but look very good now, despite some uneveness on lighter soils. Gardens are also yielding above average. Looks like we won't go hungry this winter.....

Ben

ADB-Ia · Aug 24, 2020

Crop insurance requires the crop to be destroyed. It has to be made impossible to harvest anything off it to be settled as a total loss.

Brendon-KS · Aug 24, 2020

After an early summer of good rains we've gotten really dry here in central Kansas. The beans are trying to fill pods but are really starting to show drought stress. The double-crop beans that went in after wheat are barely above the stubble and are just sort of sitting there waiting for rain. A few combines are starting to roll in corn but I suspect that this might all be high moisture at this point as there's still a lot of green in the fodder. The dryland corn should be pretty good around here as it was relatively mature when it got dry. Might impact the test weight but the yield should be good. (In our area a guy is happy if his dryland corn yield breaks 100 bu/acre and is satisfied with 80. You Corn Belt guys would consider that a total disaster but our production expenses are a lot less.) The full-season milo is all headed out and looks pretty good. Temporary dry spells like we're having right now don't seem to faze milo much so it will probably yield fairly well. A few guys double-crop milo and since it isn't growing much right now the potential problem will be getting the grain to dry down so late in the year.

WGM · Aug 24, 2020

How many of these farmers have crop insurance that covers wind damage? I suspect not many. Standard crop insurance policies do not cover wind damage. A rider covering wind damage must be purchased.

caterpillar guy · Aug 25, 2020

Okay I understand the corn is down. Is it far enough along to let it set to dry then why could it not be either harvested with a pickup head or a flex head. We cut beans down to about 1-2 inches high. With steel fingers on a hume reel I would think enough could be gotten to make it pay. Yes I know most of the heads have just plastic fingers on them now. With a pickup head it would have to be in a windrow mowing would solve that. Then a hay rake maybe? Or a pickup with a hay merger type of belt to put in a windrow.

ADB-Ia · Aug 25, 2020

Multi-peril crop insurance pays for a loss regardless of the cause. It simply insures a percentage of your average yield. Every year you report your yields. They use the last 10 years of your yield history to calculate your average yield. At the beginning of the year, you elect the coverage you want based on cost vs risk - 60, 65, 70, 75, or 80 percent. When your yield falls below that percentage, you have a claim. There are revenue policies that bring price rise or drop into the equation also. They take last years price times your average yield to establish a base revenue per acre. If your yield times this years price falls below that dollar figure, you have a claim.

ADB-Ia · Aug 25, 2020

I failed to mention, regarding the revenue policy - the percentage coverage is also factored in.

fixerupper · Aug 25, 2020

Corn can be harvested using a flex head but I would not like to tackle a 1/4 section that way. The cutter bar is not built heavy enough to be cutting 32000 or more corn plants per acre for one thing. The second problem would be in running all of that very large stalk trash through the combine for days on end. The innards of the combine are designed for smaller amounts of smaller stemmed plants. When heavy green irrigated 150 bushel wheat is combined about that same amount of material is going through the combine as standing corn. You have to see it to believe it. The engine is using all the ponies it can muster up putting a big strain on the drives. Wheat is a small flexible grass plant. The rotor, cylinder, walkers can handle it. Corn is like running soft bamboo through the machine. I combined a small amount of corn with my old 105 Deere and 15 foot bean head to make a path to some replant beans. It worked but it was painfully slow. The corn stubble looked like a finely manicured lawn afterward but the penalty for that good job was high.

caterpillar guy · Aug 25, 2020

I have cut irrigated wheat before in KS,Id and CO. Both sprinkler and corrugated or flood/hand line depending on which you want. We had to go slow with a 9600 on 30 ft heads because of the yield and material to separate. Used to cut irrigated wheat at Leoti KS Siebert CO Dubouis ID and at Alamosa CO down on the Sangre DeCristo Farms Cut both dryland and irrigated milo near Walsh CO also as well as corn at Leoti Ks and Grant NE both dryland and irrigated mostly irrigated corn though. I know the knife would wear fast cutting corn with a flex head but the speed would be set more by the ability to get all the mass separated at the shoe. After all the shoe capacity is usually the limiting factor on any combine.

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