My Personal Observation of Farming

I live in Eastern Kansas and drive to Denver at least twice a year and have done this for 30 years. Most tips are in the second week of August and the second week of October. (Birthdays and Pumpkin Festivals). This gives me the chance to see most crops at their peak (except wheat) and again at harvest time. I just returned from Denver yesterday.

Here is my unqualified observation. I have never seen as much corn in all these trips. I have never seen less sunflowers. I have never seen less soy beans. The wheat acreage is also low. The milo crop acreage seems more average, although the quality of the crop looks below average. Seems the stand is thinner. The corn looks good and some is being harvester but not more than 10 or 15 percent. I guess they are waiting for it to dry more as in the complete trip, I saw only two combines running. One other thing I did notice was the amount of hay being produced. Most of the hay looked like the Hay-grazer grass my father-in-law planted years ago. It was from 4 to 5 feet tall and somewhat stemmy and I think most of it will be ground for the feed-lots as I did not see any dairies in the area. I did see one place where they were storing corn on the ground, so some combines must be running. I do realize that I was seeing a very small sample of this vast agricultural region.

Any way, just my observation. I hope the prices hold up.

The prices will hold, go up or go down depending on crop reports from across the country as the harvest progresses.

Rick

Beans were getting combined ASAP in SJ. Corn is gone already but beans they are doing even with some greenes to them because of that storm tonight. Wish I could post this little video clip but the guy had just entered the field and was making the outside cut. I forgot to put the window up fast enough. Load of dust. Cough, cough!!! This photo of the small field of sunflowers looks so sad now. Guess they will combine this week before the birds get into them.

Here are a few more.

And DUST!

NICE---Thanks