Crop scout report.

IaGary · Jul 17, 2008

After wet cold spring, crops are looking up around here. The beans are blooming and the corn is just starting to tassel.

I would have sold out for a half a crop on June 1st.

Now I think we are looking at a average crop for everything that got planted by the first of June and didn't flood out.

How's the corn and beans looking in your area?
Gary

John730D · Jul 17, 2008

Corn and beans in central Il are looking good. My Indian corn is a little bit worse than the sweet corn, and it doesn't look good. Maybe half a crop of sweet corn. Pumpkins aren't doing diddly. Garden has been good this year.

Allan in NE · Jul 17, 2008

Your crops really look good, Gary.

Yer a darned good farmer!

Allan

Coffee Helps · Jul 17, 2008

Not a farmer, but the field corn I see on the ridges & higher valley (river terrace) fields around here looks really good (good color & height). Crawford & Vernon Counties, Wis., SW Wis.

Mike M · Jul 17, 2008

Not a farmer either, but here in north central Ohio I'd say alot of the crops look really good. Corn was way over knee high by the 4th. Wheat fields looked good and still standing up and this week the combines are hitting it hard. Sweet corn farmer says he should have some ready real soon.

Sloroll · Jul 17, 2008

Gary I just took a look from above. In less than a mile I saw everything from as good looking as your crops to beans that look like they had been cut, baled and hailed on. Some corn looks very nitrogen deficient while a field right next to it will look lush. I think this year more than most, timing, variety and crop management is going to really show who the real farmers are.

That being said, everything is 2-3 weeks late maturing here. The dice are still dancing around the table.

Anonymous-0 · Jul 17, 2008

Looks like you got your beans walked.

MN Scott · Jul 17, 2008

Mine look good up here to. Even the fields that were crusted and had a tough time comming up turned out good. The corn has really perked up the last few weeks with the heat and rain. Now if we can just avoid the wind and "ice" storms that have been going thru the area the last week or so.

VADAVE · Jul 17, 2008

Sorry no pictures.
In Virginia:
Corn is about made just needs to fill out some, I'm guessing by the end of the month. Looks like a pretty good crop as we've had good rains all spring.
Double crop beans went in on July 3rd and are about 3-4 inch tall now. There potential for a nice crop.
Wheat finished June 28 with almost 90 bu/ac. That's excellent. We had a cool spring and were able to control the powdery mildew.

Anonymous-0 · Jul 17, 2008

Beans here are like yours, 30 inch rows not quite closed in. Corn looks good on good ground, lighter soils are showing serious drought stress. We"re about 1-2 weeks from tasseling, but rain may speed that up. 1st crop of hay was excellent, 2nd crop ,( on the ground now) is just fair. Got 1/2 inch of rain this morning, first rain since 6 weeks ago today . SW MN

Dave from MN · Jul 17, 2008

Beings are canopied over, they look good but seem short,maybe 14"tall. Corn is up to my shoulders and chin where I spread manure(I am 6'1"), up to my waist and beer belly where I didnt. I have some volunteer corn area that are struggling, but 98% of that feild is a nice dark green and showing no signs of stress, but we do need rain the next 6 days for sure. My rye is looking spectacular, should be knocking it down next week. My oats headed out good but is awefully short. Not sure if I should swath it and then use the grain belt on the combine or have some one straight combine it. It definatly isnt the most clod free ground in the country, last time I min till seed oats

Christos · Jul 17, 2008

I"m over in Pataskala or Fairborn depending on the day or the week, but back home in Pataskala our corn is ok - one field has a third that was stuntned the rest of the growth is like in waves.

Over at School (Wright State/Fairborn) anything around the Mad River around Medway - there is a field of beans washed out on Spangler Rd that I pass when I go up to Stulls to get parts for my Grain Drill.

Christos

TripleRange · Jul 17, 2008

Looks real good here in northern IN. Could use an 1" of rain as the corn is starting to tassle.

luckydog · Jul 17, 2008

Gary- don"t post much but I enjoy reading all posts. Crops here look as good or better than last year, plus more moisture. 40 mile radius aroud here there is more water holes and ALOT more damage,ie hail, wind. Corn is tasseled and beans look like yours. We live 30 miles NE of Lafayette In. Bill

Nikolas Britton · Jul 17, 2008

If you ask me the seasons have sifted over 1 month the last few years.

April showers, May flowers -> May showers, June flowers.

Same 1 month shift for the fall/winter change up... I don't have any data to back that up though.

Anonymous-0 · Jul 17, 2008

Be sure to get an accurate yield comparison of the manured vs spared areas. Be mindful of other factors also between the 2 such as soil type, drainage, and prior fertilizer and prior crops....
Put the results into EXCEL, ACCESS or other spreadsheet so you can think about it this winter and decide what pays pretty easily.

Steven f/AZ · Jul 17, 2008

Here in SW North Dakota we are experiencing a severe drought. Much of the wheat never even headed out (not even tall enough to cut for hay), the wheat that has headed out will most likely have shrunken kernels of light weight grain (perhaps not even marketable!).

Hay crop is very poor, approx 1 ton of hay for every 3 to 5 acres. About 1 bale per 2.5 acres is what we averaged (1200 lb bales).

We have filled every tank we have with water to help with fighting fires. Fires are getting started by people trying to cut what little hay there is, along with one started by a rake, and a few started by balers. The other night we were over fighting a fire that burned through a neighbor's yard - luckily saved the shop, a pole building, and most importantly - the house.

So, the crop scout report from SW ND is not good at all.

IaGary · Jul 17, 2008

I quit walking beans in about 1990, when they came out with better herbicides to control the weeds in beans.

Just spray this field with glysophate and insecticide about 3 days ago. The weeds were only about 4" tall. The beans were sprayed the first time when they were 6" tall.

Hopfully I am done going through this field until the combine hits it.

Gary

OliverGuy · Jul 17, 2008

Here's some of my corn. Last year was drought, this year almost too much. This field is darker, lighter soil that does good in a year like this. Hope it keeps raining some to keep it going. This field got it's nitrogen with ESN, the slow release granular form of urea. Thought I would try it, but it seems to be working. It supposedly got an airplane/helicopter applied fungicide the other day. Beans look pretty good also. We're very lucky this year.
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keh · Jul 17, 2008

Gary,

Daughter I asked you for weather advice on got to Iowa city during height of floods. Bought a house that was NOT flooded. Has been getting adjusted, thanks for your advice, will contact you when we go up for visit.

She has a "wetland" behind her house, then a corn field.
She has been reporting on the corn and it sounds like
its as far along as yours.

Corn here in SC is pitiful due to the drouth. I had 2 in. in May, 1 1/4 in. in June, and so far 1 1/4in. in July.A dairy near me has corn for silage and got more rain recently, he may get 50 to 75 percent of a crop. Some dairies to the east of me have corn drying up, maybe 3-4 feet tall. No till soybeans after small grain are doing nothing. I have pasture that is barely making it, streams about dry.

KEH

IaGary · Jul 17, 2008

Where is here at Oliver Guy?

Corn looks to be about 10 days ahead of ours.

Gary

dwrk · Jul 17, 2008

East-Central Ontario, our corn varies from 4-6', starting to tassell now. Beans are 3-3.5' tall, looking as good as they have for years. Winter wheat will probably come off next week-10 days, looks really good as well except for about 12 acres that downy brome flattened on us. Looks like it should average about 70bu which is better than average here.
All kinds of hay here but anybody not wrapping it like us hasn't been able to get much dry, lots of brown windrows, lots of round bales with second crop growing up around them because it's been raining too often to risk hauling the bales to the barns.

IaGary · Jul 17, 2008

Tell her welcome to Iowa for me. Hope she enjoys her stay.

Gary

Peabo · Jul 17, 2008

KEH, I feel sorry for you fellas in the upper part of the state. We have been getting decent rain here east of columbia for the whole summer. Sure wish yall could get some!! Seems like the rain has been starting at columbia and heading for the coast. Take it easy and hang in there!!

-Peabo

OliverGuy · Jul 18, 2008

Lafayette, IN. NW corner between Indianapolis and Chicago. We snuck in some planting early on when some may have said it was a little damp. It wasn"t really that bad and I"ll feel better about it now! Didn"t have time with my real job to get all the anhydrous down on these little farms so I just had them apply that ESN on this and two other places. Seems to be working, but mostly thanks to timely rains I suspect. This is all Becks triple stack seed, what do you plant?

keh · Jul 18, 2008

Thanks, Peabo. Looks like you may get more rain today(Friday).

KEH

NW MO Poppers · Jul 18, 2008

Wow, your beans look great! Here in NW Missouri, the hills are going to have a great year... a bit above average yields (170-180 prob) on corn, but our beans... I dunno. Prob 45-50 bu. Can't seem to get any more than that. But again, your beans look great!!

Josh

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