how are your crops? update

Dave from MN · Jun 25, 2008

Well, rye is bout 6' tall, looking good. What I thought was a weed free oat feild has proven me wrong. How late can you still spray oats to kill of broadleafs( wild radish, wild mustard), corn is takeing off good, got that sprayed today, beans are starting to close up the spaces, weeds are totally killed, volunteer corn is starting to die. Amazinly I need rain, hard to believe when just a few miles north(3 actually) there is still feilds too wet to disc, and meadows to wet to cut. I hear south of me in even sandier ground the corn looks more like onions. How are the rest of you doing.

Wesley Stephens · Jun 25, 2008

It's very, very dry here. Some corn fields look like they'd burn if you struck a match to them. My corn is rolled up but ok for now, but without rain soon it won't be. My tobacco is hanging in there, but starting to wilt.

kyhayman · Jun 25, 2008

First cutting of hay is almost finished, its way too late and too mature but thats the way the ball bounces. Yield wise, the fields I fall fertilized with N are running 125 percent of average, other fields about 90 percent.

We're getting dry, like you places 3 miles away its totally different. They'e been getting just enough water, I havent had any since Memorial Day and not much then. All my round bales are stacked in the barn though. Second cutting alfalfa is just ready to cut now. Its clean, looks good, yield will be off due to being dry but it had enough water under it from back early to make a cutting.

paul · Jun 25, 2008

Little too wet yet, tho some spots are looking too dry.... Typical wet spring type of year. Corn is pretty uneven, some is starting to take off now, a lot is looking pretty poor, lot of thin spots.

Beans are small, just got planted into wet ground. I got some hail just as they were breaking through the ground, that thinned my stand a little.

Won't complain as many have it much worse, so far looks like an average crop is possible. Been spoiled by the previous 3 dry early years when crops looked beautiful.....

Couple 100 miles south of you I believe.

--->Paul

fixerupper · Jun 25, 2008

If the oats are thinking about heading out it's too late to spray without sacrificing yield. Your weather is a little different than ours in NW Iowa, but around here it's getting a little iffy going by the calender.
Around here the corn-on-corn looks terrible, but the corn following beans looks fairly decent. Must be something about the cool weather and nitrogen uptake. The beans look really good.
Don't know what to estimate as far as drown-out goes. The western part of the county has almost nothing drowned, but the eastern part is in the 10%-15% range. Jim

Leroy · Jun 25, 2008

I think you can still do it ok, dought that the oats are that far along being that far north, here in Ohio the oats would not be that far along.

Bill(Wis) · Jun 25, 2008

From 40 miles W/SW of Green Bay. Soybeans planted on 10-20 May look to be in excellent health although shorter in height than expected this time of year due to cold, wet conditions early and it still hasn't warmed up all that much. Corn looks as you describe, like onions. It will not be "knee high on the 4th of July", on land that produced corn over 6' tall on the 4th of July in 2006. Alfalfa never looked better and the grasses are the tallest I can recall for this time of year. Oats and peas for silage are lush. With warmer weather arriving I expect the corn as well as the soybeans will improve but the corn will not set any records. We're 50 miles or so north of where the flooding in Wis occurred.

Anonymous-0 · Jun 25, 2008

All Crops are very good , AT This TIME , Just keep the rain steady .Been getting 3/8 inch of rain every 6 days or so here in Southern Indiana . This Year , weather is a tad cooler than in the past 15 years , Reminds Me Of How it was when I was a kid back in the 60's. I do not recall it getting hotter than He(( in those days and staying that way for weeks . We did not need AC back then .... If You do not drive to the Gas Pumps,and get pi$$@D at the price they charge ,, Life Would Be VERY GOOD Here in Gods Country , Jim

rrlund · Jun 26, 2008

The purple is finally going out of the corn. The stuff that wasn't purple is knee high. Needs to have the last shot of roundup before total canopy. Pastures look good. Second cutting hay is coming good where the first cutting is off. I've still got some first to cut yet.Oats have headed and look a LOT better than they did when they came up.

Red1 · Jun 26, 2008

Here around Wichita Kansas the wheat is starting to gooseneck...looks farily thick. Do not know how it filled. May was the wettest recorded month here, may be some areas that drowned out. Otherwise crops look pretty good.

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