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David G · Jul 11, 2020

We have had three rounds of storms in last three days, one two days ago and two rounds today. These storms brought 70MPH winds with them. I lucked out and probably only have 10 acres of corn that is not flat. My neighbor has about 400 acres of corn flat, which is 1/3 of his crop.

I hate storms this time of year.

David G · Jul 11, 2020

My 15 year old Generac is holding its own, been on the last 4 hours, line is down about 2 miles from me.

casecollectorsc · Jul 11, 2020

How much rain did you get? We need some rain here, E SD, got a quarter inch the other nite but need lots more.

SVcummins · Jul 11, 2020

Storms aren’t good here this time of the year either. pretty good chance it’ll be hail when it gets this hot

David G · Jul 11, 2020

5" in last 3 days, but came in enough burst that good in July.

fixerupper · Jul 11, 2020

The storms today must have been in the line of storms that just skirted me to the east. Too bad about the flat corn. At this stage of the game it will probably gooseneck back up and be a real problem to harvest. Last summer I had a 111 acre field that had green snap above the ear from a wind storm. I lost about 30 bushels per acre yield because of it but it was no problem to harvest. I was flown over that field in september and afterward I wished I would have stayed on the ground.

David G · Jul 11, 2020

We get a lot of straight line winds here, bad for corn.

David G · Jul 11, 2020

I will turn mine in on insurance, but still will lose.

David G · Jul 11, 2020

They make an attachment for the corn head that helps pick it up, might be a good year to order one now.

WGM · Jul 11, 2020

Most crop insurance policies do not include wind damage.

4520BW · Jul 11, 2020

We had so.e roll thru this evening bring some much needed rain. The worse went south of here but we got an inch of rain. I cut some hay yesterday so I am sure thats why it rained, guess I should charge my neighbors for bring it in. A few days ago we had a storm roll thru with no rain but alot of damage.

David G · Jul 11, 2020

Mine always has

Absent Minded Farmer · Jul 11, 2020

The renter on our land dropped his hay on Wednesday & had it washed with 4" of rain between then & Friday. Finally chopped it today. Was a brown mess.

I got nailed by a surprise downburst on Thursday coming back from Missouri. Was on 110 going around Macomb, IL when I noticed a towering cumulus cloud to the north. Didn't think anything of it. Tall, scrawny thing & it looked dry underneath. Got to the freshly oiled part of 110/34/67 south of Monmouth when a couple big drops hit the windshield & then the sky opened up. Slowed waaaaay down & that's when the wind hit & darned near blasted me off the road. Was very happy that I had about 1k pounds of parts piled in the box of the truck & some seriously knobby skins on them rims. May have been a goner otherwise. Water & oil don't seem to mix well. >:v(

Mike

tomstractorsandtoys · Jul 11, 2020

Those same storms laid lots of corn flat here in my area of WI as well. One Amish farm has less than an acre of his corn crop left. It was all broke off at ground level. The corn on corn fields seem the worst. Mine is twisted up some but not terrible. There will be lots of down corn reels used here this fall. I expect the big dairies that hire their chopping done will do ok as the new rotaty corn heads will feed in about anything from any direction. Tom

hrRoss · Jul 11, 2020

few years ago in july had a wind storm come thru while in Alaska, my neighbor called me about it,corn blown down almost flat I think, by the time I got back it straightened up, couldn't tell anything had happened, shoulder high or more at that time

omahagreg · Jul 12, 2020

Farmer friend of ours had a bunch of downed corn 2 years back near Red Oak Iowa. He had just upgraded to a 12 row corn head-he hired a company to split it and put automation on it so it works well on his terraces. SO, when his corn was down he had the great joy of mounting 2 of those reels on it!

coonie minnie · Jul 12, 2020

Actually, not... down corn is the fear of every rotary head operator. Don't be surprised to see old chain style heads come out of sheds for silage if they still have them.

gab · Jul 12, 2020

I had 5.1 inches out of the last five rains, couple of the storms looked bad coming over the hill and dam windy but not for long. North side of my sweet corn patch was leaning south for a couple days but I don't see any damage in the neighborhood.

rockyridgefarm · Jul 12, 2020

Yesterday morning on my way to Browntown WI on hwy 11.

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