Re: 2008 was like that here

Posted by Iowa corn and hogs on June 10, 2009 at 03:31:00 from (75.104.160.58):

In Reply to: pics from the last corn field posted by bilonthefarm on June 09, 2009 at 19:12:49:

Bill: here is how 2008 went here. Got the corn in--for the first time-on May 31. Planted it too wet, but it kept raining and the clods "melted" and we had good stands. In 1990 we mudded in corn on June 2nd and shortly thereafter it quit raining, and it was a BIG mistake--should have waited. So mudding it in is a BIG crapshoot. 2008 was cool and wet all summer, with no frost until November. I spent more on propane than it takes us to live for the year--I sure wish I had all that $$ back!!. We didn't start combining corn until Oct 22, and it was in the high 20's then. I don't know how we could have waited any longer, as we BARELY got done before winter set in--picked for several days in the snow. Some years we are nearly done by Oct 22. Corn made 155-160. I replanted corn as late as June 22 (we had ponds of 5+ acres everywhere--I ended up using 20 bags of 75 day corn to replant them). The ponds had to be left until after Thanksgiving as they were 35% when we began in late October. They ended up making 100 bu according to the yield monitor--but I think we lucked out--they would have been fodder with a normal fall freeze date.

Finished sb on June 24. "Normal" management made mid 30's. Got creative on some of the last-planted fields, sprayed foliar fert, insecticide, and fungicide, and got 46 bu.
June 1 planted beans made 50 and June 24th "normal" management made mid 30's, so that delay was huge in terms of yield.

It was the summer that wasn't--we sprayed beans in August, and never caught up. Many small things like mowing waterways and spraying fencerows simply weren't done. The drying bill on the corn was horrendous.
WE survived on a BIG insurance check. I hope you have a high level of insurance--then you will be ok. GRIP payed the best, but they don't pay you until the following spring--which is a LONG time to pay interest while waiting for the insurance check.
Prepare yourself for just slogging through 2009 with the knowledge that you did all you could, and that 2010 will be much better. Prepare yourself mentally for the "wait" you will have to do in the fall--you cannot afford to go out and pick corn in early October like you will want to--the corn will be 10 points wetter than you are used to. Delay any unnecessary expenditures and keep your head up! The rising grain prices are helping you--maybe more than the weather is hurting you--especially if you have a high level of crop insurance.

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