Re: corn wont green up

Posted by John_PA on July 13, 2013 at 22:33:04 from (71.182.173.45):

In Reply to: corn wont green up posted by Dave from MN on July 13, 2013 at 20:27:29:

You are not the only one.

I'll try to post pics within a few hours.

My best bottom land, which usually makes over 3 tons hay per first cutting, 90 bpa wheat, 120 bpa oats, and 200+ corn looks like it has hills in it. It is tiled, too.

It goes from over the hood of an allis chalmers 190, down to ankle high and thin as a railroad spike. yellow? I think in some spots it is white, and the bottom true leaves turned brown an fell off.

Does that sound like you?



They say corn will die if under water for 3 days. The fact that it hasn't died is what amazes me. I know it has been under water for longer than that.

This is just payback for that bumper crop I had last year, with the price being through the roof.

Looks like $4.50 bushel corn at harvest time and if I get 100 bpa average yield on the bottom, I will be happy. It looks more like 60 bpa corn though.

I guess the best thing to do is not even look at it. MY family was the first to plant corn in this part of the "new western frontier" in 1775. That year, they made 50 bpa, which was considered unheard of. It made the history books. (check beers history of Washington county)

I hang my head in shame this year.

On the bright side, I have a few fields on the hills that are making a new flag leaf every 2 days, and it went from ankle high on June 26th, to 6 1/2 feet tall as of today.

I did 6000 lbs of lime last fall, 225 lbs of 12-40-0 1s 1z MESZ at planting, broadcast 200 lbs of 46-0-0 treated with agrotain, and still I got those yellow spots. I am not throwing any more money at it either. IT is what it is. Let's just hope I get at least 18,000 bushel out of the 145 acres I planted, with all the other good ground included. That is my break even point. I don't wish for anything other than to just break even.

I'm taking the good with the bad and will eat a lot of hotdogs and bologna this winter until next fall. Just pray those ethanol plants come back online so the demand comes back up. We can't go back to $2.50 corn. With new tractors costing $200,000, and new planters costing $90,000, there is no way for anyone with small acreage like me to ever afford good used, let alone new, at $2.50 a bushel.

BTW, a 1981 JD 7000 max emerge 6 row non-no-till with dry fert just sold at a sale near me in June for $10,500. I think that is not far off what they cost brand new back in 1981. high cost of new is pushing up cost of good used.

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