Ok, corn can stop going down. Don’t really want big ARC payments this year. Thankfully have little old unpriced and a decent chunk of 26 hedged.
2026 crop year
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Corn and beans all taking a beating must be raining in Chicago.
New world screwworm jumped the border and has shown up in a calf in S Texas. Not a huge deal on it's own but doesn't really help anything USDA continues to try to ramp up Sterile screwworm fly production to slow the spread and help keep it in Mexico.
I was in central Iowa last week for a family funeral and couldn’t believe how young the corn is in northern MO all the way to Hamilton county.
Dad said it was a wet/cold spring. I remember the old saying as a kid “knee high by Fourth of July” and in the last 20 yrs or so it was common to be “knee high by the fourth of June.” I think it’ll be closer to Fourth of July this season.
Dad said it was a wet/cold spring. I remember the old saying as a kid “knee high by Fourth of July” and in the last 20 yrs or so it was common to be “knee high by the fourth of June.” I think it’ll be closer to Fourth of July this season.
For the most part, I don't think that saying holds any relevance. It was a common thought back in the pre-insecticide days when corn planting was delayed until May 10th timeframe in an attempt to allow corn rootworms to develop to a stage in their life cycle where they would do minimal damage feeding on the corn seedling's roots. It's now common to have corn "fencepost" high (if you still have any of those around) by the fourth of July, barring any late planting issues.
There is a lot of rough looking corn around, it didnt come up very even, some spots were too wet some were too dry, and the past 2 weeks has been the ugly stage where its growing fast and looking for nutrients. But it really did take off, mine was just below knee high on Wednesday. Anyone that didnt get their spraying done before this rain might have trouble. Beans are looking good
It was cool here in Northern Iowa, and there was kind of two waves of Planting , the third week of April and the first week of May. There’s still a slight difference in height white with them, but the later stuff is catching up pretty good.
Here I'd go the opposite. Corn actually looks pretty good all around while soybeans both struggled quite a bit with uneven emergence and very slow growth overall due to the cold stretch of May. Looking better now but still behind the past 2 years.
My hail damaged soybeans are looking better though. New interseeded ones just poking through earlier this week.
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Early May no till beans struggled with emergence due to cold. Late May beans on worked ground struggled because of it being too dry. So yeah a lot of rough beans here too
