Posted by Bleeding Orange SW Iowa on July 18, 2012 at 19:35:51 from (166.181.3.33):
In Reply to: Rain!! posted by MN Scott on July 18, 2012 at 14:45:10:
We didn't have the drought last year, but a lot of fields in SW Iowa looked like your photos right after a double line of t-storms swept through with high (80 mph) winds. Spotty blowdown, too--one of Pop's fields almost all down, my field 1/2 mile away had very little. Many (including me) thought: (sigh) disaster...
Ended up sifting 160 bpa out of the dirt. The stalks rebounded about a foot off the ground and held there. Combine had to run across the rows in some spots, but got it. We have not switched to all crops/no livestock, like some larger folks in the area, so the cows got the rest of the blowdown. Thank goodness we are too small to specialize, we have to keep the diversity of both crops and cattle for our income. Almost no volunteer corn in Pop's beans this year, where the worst blown down corn was last year. It seems like many fields in the area that had no cows on the stalks have a lot more volunteer corn in the beans this year.
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