Hows everyones corn doing?

Well, current prices are kinda depressing but.... most of myt corn is doing great. All was planted 4/24, One feild corn was up to my waist, 40" plus, down side is that there is alot of velvet leaf and lambs quarter coming in, too late to spray that feild due to hieght/canopy. The one no tilled feild isnt doing as great as I had hoped, very uneven height, about 12"-18" tall, lot of broadleafs coming on strong, hitting that with Status in a hour or so. Not real impressed with the no till thing this year. Rest of corn is doing good, 25"-30" very little weeds, some grass, the feild that had a carpet of rye disked in is pretty much weed free, about 40% of the rye didnt get killed in the burn down, but seems to be helping the corn more than it's hindering. So far so good!! How the rest of you doing.

corn is about 6'in Va. looks great

This field was planted 5/5 and is fence high.(4' fence) My corn planted the 23 and 24th of April is a bit taller but not much.

When it is cold out it takes a while for the ground to warm on the notill. That's why I one pass mine with field cultivator before planting.

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These beans were planted the 10th or so of May.

About 15" tall.

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May have to hit them one more time with roundup before they canopy. I have 100 acres to hit the first time yet. Can't get in there to spray with a 1" of rain everyother day.

Gary

Here in so. Mn. the guys that left a lot of trash on top last fall their corn don't look so good. I tilled my bean ground and mold board plowed my corn stalks last fall so my crops look great compared to most. I'm not saying my methods are better. Just seams with this years weather it turned out better this year.

I will have to tell you in the morning. My corn is way late (6-8) but this morning when I looked it was 6" tall and greener than most any around I have seen and was way more level. Now it is come'n a hard tunderstorn here at work and radar is show'n it's worse at the house. First rain we have had at home in about 5 days (was get dry by this year's local standards) and I was planning to plant beans in the morning when I get home and was hope'n to get the rest of the tobacco set Wednesday. I have no idea what I am going to find when I get home now. Start'n a 7 day vacation in the morning, maybe I can get things planted and set later in the week.

Dave

Just talked to my grandmother. Rain has gone to a sprinkle at the house. She got a big half inch she said in her gauge, mine will read .6 to .7 as mine always reads a little higher than hers. This came in less than an hour. It should not be enough to stand on any of the corn ground, wash out any finces, creek get over any corn, and the sun is low enough that it won't scald the 'baccer. With a little luck I might be able to get started on beans Wendsday afternoon or Thursday if I stay on the higher ground and then set 'baccer Friday. Have already given up on hay, try'n to find some one to do custom work now.

Hope every one else is have'n better luck than I am.

I was gonna snap a picture and ask the same question. Our 105 day corn planted 5/22-5/23 is about 6-10" tall in most areas. It was in the ground for 2 weeks before it came up.

We did some late planted corn after 1st crop was off and we plowed under about 6-7 acres. That was in last week Saturday (6/13), it was up on Friday(6/19). Now it's in the 3-4 leaf stage already and it's gonna hit 90 tomorrow. Very humid and moist ground so it'll all probaly grow another 3-4" tomorrow. The later corn is 91 day so it should all mature out at the same time going by the dates.

Just might hit knee high yet by the 4th. Not too much corn was in earlier than ours in this area. Only 1 or 2 feilds that I can think of were in sooner and they're not really any father ahead of us. Was a slow start this spring. Lots of guys still trying to get 1st crop off and we'll be doing 2nd in 2 weeks hopefully. Hope to get 4 crop this year again.

Donovan from Wisconsin

The corn here is really responding to the heat. I don't ever remember planting in such perfecty conditions even where the soil was still a bit cold and wet. Many were planting here by mid april but the corn planted in may is by far the better looking. Old men in the area always said to plant corn when the oak leaves were the size of squirrels ears. Which this year was closer to the 15th of may. We harvested 40 acres of ryelage onb the 30th of may and notilled corn into the stubble on the 31st. It was up in 6 days and is 10-12 inches today. I sprayed with 10 gallons of 28% and roundup on the 4th. Then applied another 30 gallons of 28 on side dressed on the 6th. i can't believe how fast this corn is growing.

Here in central IL things are still way way too wet. Many people still arent done planting believe it or not. Most of us could finish up in a day or so but we have been waiting for two weeks tomorrow for that day. Four inches of rain last week alone.
This is our earliest corn it was planted on the may 17.


This is the last corn we planted, june 9th. It was planted in horrible conditions but has a good stand. I am a little concerned that it could see some near 100 temps this week.


We still have 100 acres of beans to plant. This picture was taken last thursday morning after the second rain storm of the week. We have had about a half inch since then. This is 80 of the 100 acres we have left to do. Out in the field near here is where the versitile and field cultivator were stuck the last time we tried to work here.


This field of corn has struggled from the start. Planted it in the mud and it has been soggy every since. Looks like there will be some bare spots and not much we can do about it.


There is only one drawback to farming on the prarie. No matter how fast the water comes it only goes away as fast as the field tile can get rid of it.


We got a pretty good storm last thursday in the early am. We recieved about 1.6 inches of rain and lots of wind and lightining so I went to check and make sure everything was ok with the cows in the pasture.
This is the creek at a fairly normal flow, higher than normal but for this spring about average.


This was thursday morning and I could tell it had allready went down a couple of feet.


This tree looked to have taken a lightining strike.


We have been trying to get the hay up. We have only been able to get about 15 bales so far. Nick has nearly had the 3020 stuck with the mower conditioner and I had to skip some areas while raking today because I thought I was going to get the 3010 and rakes stuck.
All in all we are gettting along. Never in my wildest dreams did I every thing we would be planting this time of the year. Everything is screwed up, nothing is on schedule and it gets a little worse everyday this drags on. Beans to plant, corn to spray, hay to cut and bale, wheat is turning, weeds to mow and it is so darn wet nothing much can go on. This is the most frustrating thing I have ever seen and there is no sign of it getting any better.
bill

Get your "baccer out by around July 4th and it should be okay. If ya get it out later due to rain you may have Jack Frost cutting it for you-not good. Good Luck with it, the KY rain may be a problem this year, hope blue mold doesn"t kick in.

Central Nebraska: About 200,000 acres with damage. Many fields a total loss. Many SEED corn fields are a total loss. Beans mowed off but may recover some. Went from beautiful to ugly in a couple of storms.

I just have sweet corn about 50" high. A storm about a week ago laid it all over, but it has mostly stood back up now.
Just planted my second patch of sweet corn a couple of days ago.

With dark air cured I really like to let it stand 6 weeks after top'n and any thing cut after about the 25th of September has a chance to cure up funny. The last few years it didn't matter, US would buy most anything and not look at it. I live 3 miles from one of their worst growers and they never sent him home with any. Now that every thing is a new game with PM buy'n them out. I really would like to get the rest of it set this week, least be'n this late I should have plenty of help and no one should stop sweat'n and fall over cut'n, maybe it'll be cold nuff for the wasp to be move'n slow in the barn. Gotta find something good to say bout it I guess.


Dave

our corn is tasseling and looking good. we have had adequate rain for the first time in about 3 years.

I rode with the sprayer, on about 100 acres worth, looked pretty good, old 7000 JD 6 row planter my farmer friend keeps going, monitor must have had a loose connection kept tripping the alarm, thought there might be skips, was none of those.

Fields looked good, some areas looked hungry 2 weeks ago, one had a serious weed problem, same one that was forgot during the 2nd round of spraying, but we got it done a few days later, darned milkweed can get out of control, and one other weed was in there too.

Last week the sprayer did the dry application of I think Urea ?, not sure, as he was up and able to show him the fields, so that will give it the boost, and with this week coming up, supposed to be sunny, ought to be knew high by the 4th of July !

We got caught up on the rain, spring was a dry one, but the rain intervals started to increase, early June was dry, then the rains soaked the soil to the point you could not do any tillage, so it was good to be done, 200-215 acres worth, I never realized it, he used to do 500 in corn, getting to be a bit much, wish he was younger, he says he's have gone for bins, dryer etc. 44 tandem loads box is 39 cu yds. struck & 40+ miles one way to the elevator, stop and go and with all these different fields, not all that easy to get in/out etc.

Oats look great, think he could have went heavier on the population, just a little, think it was 3 bushels/acre he put down, all topped out now, about 65 acres worth.

Right now the hay situation is hard to figure, should be cutting today, he's got 150 acres in that, + 3 custom jobs, he could keep that baler real busy in good weather, not sure how that will work out, I hope we can get out there somehow, 2nd cut off these fields is really nice stuff.

I've enjoyed working and helping out on all this, it is a shame ag crops don't bring more money, and everyone is borderline break even or close to that, well the corn at least, oats seem more promising as does the hay, if you can get that in without rain.

Silage corn in western Washington got planted right, since we haven't had enough rain to amount to anything since mid-May. Mostly 6-12", may start getting stressed from lack of moisture if we don't get a good rain soon. Temperature units haven't been good, most days in low 70's (cloudy AM, clears up in afternoon, but onshore wind flow from ocean keeps it cool).

Hay guys are wondering what to do- not really hot enough for good drying, and weather forecasts keep predicting "chance of showers" that never happen. Same forecast for the next 10 days. Several are starting to cut, figuring on a 4 or 5 day drying time. Will still make some good hay, as long as the predicted showers continue to elude us.