Cool, dry, now local storage is being bid out

Dave from MN · Jul 30, 2009

It's very dry here, most corn is filling very decent where it is tall, shorter stuff isnt doing so good. St Cloud has had it's 3rd coolest July on record (so much for global warming here), New crop corn prices are at $2.67 today. Retired farmers are having a very high demand for their storage bins, even the small ones. Looks like alot of farmers are gonna put it in storage if they didnt contract a decent price. I have some contracted at $4.20, but I may just hold everything else for higher prices if there is a rally. My break even is $175 an acre, would have been a lot less had I saved more chicken manure. Most of my corn is still looking the best that has ever been grown on this farm, guessing the lack of heat stres really helped. Guess I am gonna have to really build up the organic matter in the areas that didnt do so well. Amazing also how the areas that suffered so bad during these dry spells were the parts that I disced twice, and where I notilled you would never know by looking at the crop that we have had a drought. How is everyone else doing?

paul · Jul 30, 2009

Got .04 inch of rain over nite.

That"s the most we got down here south of you in a month. We have very heavy deep clay soil, but this is the 3rd driest I have ever seen it, clost to the 2nd driest. Every small rain has missed us, haven"t had a 1/2 inch total in the last 2.5 months. Coolness has keep the crops struggling along, but..... Nothing in the forcast until next Wed now, starting to look grim. You might find a lot of storage space down here if this continues.

--->Paul

M Nut · Jul 30, 2009

Well, I don't have any corn, but I'm having a devil of a time trying to make hay. It went from complete drought, to raining every day or for sure every other day, overnight. I was making hay like crazy on the higher ground fields trying to get the hay off before it completely burned away in the drought, and now my low ground fields are next to impossible to get into. I got 50 big bales rolled up yesterday, but there were places in the field where i darned neared got stuck baleing, I spent a couple of hours with a pitch fork carrying hay out of the lowest places to toss into rows where I could get at them to bale. So, I'm going to have to give up and wait for it to quit raining and dry things up for a week. It's frustrating because we are still quite short on hay from the drought of spring and I know there is at least 150 big bales worth of hay I can't get to because it is now to wet!
On the positive, the pastures are sure holding out better than they have the past few years. At least we don't have to worry about starting to feed hay the 1st of August like in the past.

Bill in IL · Jul 30, 2009

We have the opposite problem to yours. Here all the ground that had been no-till looks bad and what had been worked is much better. But we have had all the rain too.

October corn highest local bid is 3.11. Where is all the good corn at this year that the crop reports are talking about?

glennster · Jul 30, 2009

bill, mine is looking pretty good so far, had a couple areas needed replant this spring from ponding, but looking good now. beans arent looking bad either. fields were chiseled last fall and hit with the field cultivator this spring before planting. been getting decent rains too, but could use more heat days. heres a couple pics from a few weeks ago, corn now is 7-8 feet tall, beans are doing good too. japanese beetles are in the beans, but are not as bad as last year.
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rrlund · Jul 30, 2009

I'm surprised at how mine looks too. Heck of a cold wet spring,but I held off and didn't mud anything in. Started planting May 14,pretty well finished up the 24th. Even the silage corn that I planted June 3 after I chopped the hay off and put it in the silo looks super. Early corn's just starting to silk. Moisture got a little short for a while,but I had 2.25 inches from last Wednesday through Sunday night. Never really had any heat to stress it.

Dave from MN · Jul 30, 2009

Sorry to hear that Paul, I know what you mean about the rain, everything has been going north of me, or to the south and east. A couple weeks ago, just a mile north they got from 2-3.5", and I got a quick shower, not much of anything. 2 mile east of me that same storm dropped alot of hail. I hope you get some of that Rain that Mnut is dealing with.

Dave from MN · Jul 30, 2009

Sorry to hear your not getting decent hay weather, I know how much hay you need going into winter. Glad to hear you finally got the pastures up and growing though. Mine is toast, only had a week of pasture feeding and have been feeding hay constantly since.Surprising how much hay 20 head of beef can go through in a week. I was gonna cull a few of them arnwy red ones and that funny brown one, but the calves are looking good and I may as well get as many calves from this bull as I can, then I can cull them next year when they wean. Still hoping to get up to your place this summer, how's that Black bull doing I sold you? Is he still a big baby?

Bob/wis · Jul 30, 2009

Been a real rough summer here down in the southwest croner of wisconsin too. Between been cool and raining about every 3 days its been hard to do anything. The crops do not want to grow because its to wet. In the last week we have had over 6 inchs in my area. The weeks before that we have had atleast one inch plus rain a week.
The to top it all off last friday there was the biggest hail storm anyone can remeber move through just to my west. Beans and oats was clipped off to the ground and the corn is just stalks left. Some where in the area of 20,000 acres of corn gone. I have not heard what the total crop ground hit was yet.
Then we got hit again monday night with another server storm. Not much hail in that one but high winds and tornados.
So it been fun
Later
Bob

Bill in IL · Jul 30, 2009

And... how are the guys in your area doing with no-till corn?

This is one of those years it proves that it don't pay to no-till at least around here. On a drought year... maybe but any other year you have to got to plow.

Yes other than that regular farmer complaints... not enough heat, Jap beetles had to be sprayed on one area and having a heck of a time making hay this year.

glennster · Jul 30, 2009

bill, like you said, the no till is behind, not looking anywhere as good as conventional tilled corn. my neihbors no-till beans look real good tho. he has been averaging 52-55 bu/ac on his no till beans, where we are in the 62/65 bu/ac for conventional.

dieseldoc · Jul 30, 2009

Corn here not great. Been wet for two years in a row.Probably only get a disapointing 150 bu.

M Nut · Jul 30, 2009

Yep, bully boy is doing good. I may end up selling him this fall though. We were talking here the other day and if we end up short on hay, I guess all 4 bulls are going this fall so we don't have to feed them all winter. Just would have to buy back again in the spring. Don't really want too, but if you know of someone looking for a nice bull I'd sell him to a good home for what I paid you for him.
It'd be nice if you could stop up sometime. I'll be sending you an email soon. Wondering if you will have any straw this year?

Dave from MN · Jul 30, 2009

I love to get 150 bushels

dieseldoc · Jul 30, 2009

my aph was 157 last year,198 year before.I shoot for around 200 on whole farm every year.I got lots of liquid dairy manure to go around.MY beans dont do very well for some reason.45-50 would be pretty good for my farm.

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