The Insurance Adjuster Just Left

Bobl1958 · May 8, 2014

Well, the Adjuster didn't zero out my wheat here in Central KS, but close. Between the winter kill and the drought, it looks like out of 300 acres of wheat, the best will be 17 bushel per acre, and the worst will be 8 bu.
Looks like the swather will come out this weekend. I will have to attempt to combine some of it, but the 80 acres that is the 8 bu I am going to mow down. At this rate I will need the feed I'm guessing.
Feel free to send any of your unwanted rain this way - Bob

oldtanker · May 8, 2014

(quoted from post at 14:34:01 05/08/14) Well, the Adjuster didn't zero out my wheat here in Central KS, but close. Between the winter kill and the drought, it looks like out of 300 acres of wheat, the best will be 17 bushel per acre, and the worst will be 8 bu.
Looks like the swather will come out this weekend. I will have to attempt to combine some of it, but the 80 acres that is the 8 bu I am going to mow down. At this rate I will need the feed I'm guessing.
Feel free to send any of your unwanted rain this way - Bob

That has to suck.

Rick

notjustair · May 8, 2014

Same boat here. They did zero out some of it. It was supposed to rain this morning and didn't get a drop. Now it is time to take a leap of faith and plant some beans. Heard this last weekend we are drier than the 30's. I trenched a water line down three feet and never hit moisture. It was an easy backfill.

IA Roy · May 8, 2014

Just for us non-wheat country people, what would be an average to good yield for the area?

Wheatfarmer · May 8, 2014

How long will they let you leave it before swathing? Will you hay it or chop it.

paul · May 8, 2014

Got pounded on this morning, and pounded on again this evening, tornado warning just a couple miles east of me. Puddles standing in all the fellas, we've only had 3 days we could be in the fields this entire spring, will be next week now until anything goes. Very little planted.

Not good on either extreme, feel for you in the dray areas.

Paul

Bobl1958 · May 8, 2014

Roy - An average here would be 40 - 45 bushel per acre. Good is 55 - 60 bushel. This is dryland wheat.
I'll probably swath and bale some, and spray the rest. I may plant some more beans, I have about 100 acres ready to plant that was in beans last year, and I may plant some milo in some of this wheat ground. Input costs for milo would be considerably higher than beans. Hate the thought of planting in this weather, but with the insurance it lessens the risk.
There is a lot of wheat in Ks that is 10 bu or less. Price should be going through the roof. Bob

IowaJohn · May 8, 2014

Paul, Where are you located? Our daughter called tonight from Carroll,Iowa to say she was OK the tornado warning there never produced a touchdown, it was Doppler indicated.

SweetFeet · May 9, 2014

Geez, that's too bad.

That is the part of farming that I do NOT miss at all... the stress over the weather and its effect on crops (and not a darn thing that one can do about any of it).

Wish we could send some rain to the dry areas... because we have too darn much. Around here, it's shaping up like last year - farmers can't even get into the fields to plant a crop. A few were going yesterday, then a downpour hit in the afternoon and there's a chance of rain everyday.

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