The big thing I can see in the fields now is how you can tell exactly the soil types by looking at the corn now. There is a huge difference in the good dirt versus average dirt. I could probably almost draw soil maps by looking at the corn, and I bet they would be extremely close to how they actually are.
Moisture content here, even in stuff that looks burned up to the eye, is still over 50%. We are waiting another week to ten days before worrying about it.
Yes some going on here. Looked at a field awhile ago and the corn was stating to black layer, in the poor spots.
I have some 102 day corn in good ground that hit black layer and i expect the farmer will be taking it out in two weeks or less. And as it looks now ding some pop counts and pulling ears looks to be close to 180 bu corn maybe better. I think in areas we're going to be shocked and then others complete loss. We are planning that harvest will starting one month early. Corn will probably be done before they start on beans in a lot of our area.
I have some 102 day corn in good ground that hit black layer and i expect the farmer will be taking it out in two weeks or less. And as it looks now ding some pop counts and pulling ears looks to be close to 180 bu corn maybe better. I think in areas we're going to be shocked and then others complete loss. We are planning that harvest will starting one month early. Corn will probably be done before they start on beans in a lot of our area.
As fast as things are happening the good 112 day corn will start to black layer late next week. I wouldnt be suprised if we are picking corn in 3 weeks. There is good corn around here also on the good dirt. But there is also going to be some bad corn. Soil type is part of the bad yields but there are other issues at play also.
The gap in our economy is between what we have and what we think we ought to have--and that is a moral problem, not an economic one. - Paul Heyne
I have some 102 day corn in good ground that hit black layer and i expect the farmer will be taking it out in two weeks or less. And as it looks now ding some pop counts and pulling ears looks to be close to 180 bu corn maybe better. I think in areas we're going to be shocked and then others complete loss. We are planning that harvest will starting one month early. Corn will probably be done before they start on beans in a lot of our area.
180 really......Did you split the ear to see how big the kernals were? My guess is this year it will take 30 to 50% more kernals to make a bushel. Hate to think where test weights are going to be. My other fear is alpha toxins.
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