Yes us silly farmers are at fault. After all we planted a crop in less than ideal conditions here in NE Iowa, Southern MN and Wisc. Mother nature handed us the wettest spring I ever dreamed of. Much of our corn was planted in June and then an exceptionally cool fall did not allow for much infield drying. I personally harvested more corn over 32% than under 28%. Some reached 40%. Low test weights and hard drying with cold air.
One local terminal was still drying corn this past week. Zero degree air is a challenge. Others had to run the corn thru twice to get it down. It seemed to get to 17 -18% and stop, Now farmers are finding bins full of corn going out of condition. So where was the mistake made? It was those farmers that have it bred into them to plant a crop and see it though. The mega operations just abandoned the crop acres and took prevented planting. They didn't add to this propane shortage after all. If more of us would of have taken the prevented planting we may have those 7$ corn prices here yet. After all you can't get yield out of late planted grain or the abandoned acres,can you.
Just a note on the yields, corn planted on the sixth of June in good conditions, no-tilled 36 inch rows yielded 275/bu/ac. of dry corn. Very wet at 36%. The biggest challenge was getting that 6 row wide head on a 7720 to go slow enough to handle that wet grain. 1.4 mph
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