corns coming out...and the yield is..........

Normal for this time of year folks would just be starting harvesting and the corn would be 18 to 20% moisture at 180-200 bushel per acre.

Full season beans are just getting ready and will be a tad below average yield due to drought. Beans after wheat will yield way below average due to drought.

There will be a record number of acres put into winter wheat this year in our county due to the early corn harvest, most wheat is planted after corn rotation, record number of corn acres planted this year, and this years wheat crop acres were way down due to late spring frost that had many destroying the wheat crop and planting in corn. Also the price is really high.

My corn silage yielded about 15 tons/acre - two thirds of normal. Planted 1st week of June, got lucky with a few showers right after layby nitrogen in mid-July , little after that. Had to chop it 3 weeks or so early before it died from drought and heat. Very little grain in it, I doubt if it would have made 10-15 bu/acre. First cut hay ,early May, made about two thirds of usual . None to cut since. Everyone here looking for hay, much of what was made in the spring has already been fed. There was rain yesterday from Humberto, over 4 inches - more than fell on my corn crop since it was planted.

I'm gonna try beans the end of this next week.

Gary