5th of july crop report

[jon f mn]

Yesterday I had great crops for the most part, today not so much. We had a storm go though with very high winds and hail. The corn is in bad shape and the barley is flat and shredded too.

Too soon to tell how bad it is yet, but there is a lot of damage.

 

[Princeton Bill]

That sucks.

 

[8850dave]

No recent hail here in North Central Illinois but more than a months worth of rain in just a couple of days again maybe the wettest year ever here

 

[urbancase]

Well most of my corn is knee high, have some under due to being so wet, plant fist week of June. Going to shoot 28 this week and spray right after, still was not able to get 25 ac of hay ground planted due to wetness. Remember mom telling me in 1947 a year after mom and dad married did had the nicest wheat crop and right before harvest hail storm came in a shredded it, mom said they waited another year to get there first electric stove as it was lost. It can be disheartening to see that after all the work.

 

[RBnWA]

Wow Jon hate to see that. Mother nature can sure be nasty. Hang in there. RB

 

[Texasmark]

Wow Jon hate to see that. Mother nature can sure be nasty. Hang in there. RB

Just went through "the (personal) sweat" with my summer Sorghum-Sudan, brown mid rib, late maturing hay crop. It just kept raining and then it would tease me with 3 days of no rain than a day or so of rain, etc. etc. Finally this week I got a 7 day window and Friday, the customer cleared the field and is tickled with the quality. I thought for awhile if it didn't stop raining, it would be a total loss and I'd have a big mess in the field to clear up...... But it's not over till it's over.

 

[TerryfromSWIowa]

Sorry to hear that Jon, Mother nature can be a B at times.

 

[Gordy in Mn.]

That's got to hurt. Sorry to see that when they looked so good yesterday. Gordy in Mn.

 

[Tgrasher]

Wow, that's a hard one to deal with. As both are of the grass family, they have good ability to recovering some, how much, as you said, wait and see. We're all in the gambling business with the weather.

 

[SweetFeet]

Yesterday I had great crops for the most part, today not so much. We had a storm go though with very high winds and hail. The corn is in bad shape and the barley is flat and shredded too.

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Too soon to tell how bad it is yet, but there is a lot of damage.

That's a real bummer, Jon! Sorry to hear it.

 

[Steve in VA]

Yesterday I had great crops for the most part, today not so much. We had a storm go though with very high winds and hail. The corn is in bad shape and the barley is flat and shredded too.

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Too soon to tell how bad it is yet, but there is a lot of damage.

No hail but the wind laid out my garden corn. Doesn't look broken so may stand back up. Hail is the worst.

 

[Absent Minded Farmer]

Yesterday I had great crops for the most part, today not so much. We had a storm go though with very high winds and hail. The corn is in bad shape and the barley is flat and shredded too.

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Too soon to tell how bad it is yet, but there is a lot of damage.

Ouch! Can it at least be chopped & put up, at this stage?

Mike

 

[jon f mn]

Ouch! Can it at least be chopped & put up, at this stage?

Mike

I suppose you could chop it, but it wouldnt have much feed value

 

[Scott 730]

Wow, bad deal for sure. I had no idea there was hail in that storm. Surprised by the 1.4" in the rain gauge though. 20 miles south of you.

 

[farmersamm]

Just went through "the (personal) sweat" with my summer Sorghum-Sudan, brown mid rib, late maturing hay crop. It just kept raining and then it would tease me with 3 days of no rain than a day or so of rain, etc. etc. Finally this week I got a 7 day window and Friday, the customer cleared the field and is tickled with the quality. I thought for awhile if it didn't stop raining, it would be a total loss and I'd have a big mess in the field to clear up...... But it's not over till it's over.

Same here. Was too cool for the Johnson Grass to grow..........what with all the rain, and clouds through the entire early Summer.

Finally got some good growing temperature(day night average) days............then we got hit with a monster storm. Too wet to get on the ground. And........about 3 days until the next elevated possibility of rain. So................I'm still not in the field.

I gave up on HayGrazer some time back. April has become a bad month. You can almost bet that a heavy rain will come, and wash the furrows in. Either wash it out, or put too much soil on top of the seeds. Things are changing, I don't care what anybody says.

Congrats on getting yours in

 

[Moline_guy]

Hate to see that, crop insurance adjusters will usually wait 10 days to two weeks before evaluating the damage. It will probably bounce back, but the top end for yield will be taken off. Keep us posted on how it rebounds, I have had hail damage, but not that far along so i am not sure how well it will rebound. We had some sorghum years ago that was shredded to the stalk and it came back fast and kept growing and got real leafy, but corn is a different animal. Good luck with it, atleast you are getting rain.

 

[Texasmark]

I suppose you could chop it, but it wouldnt have much feed value

I'm confused in reading this comment: Around here, farmers cut green, growing, corn plants, chop them up somewhat and put them under a white plastic cover (in a long row) to keep the O2 off them and they call it Sileage! This it the protein they feed to their cattle in the winter. Looks to me like this field would be a good candidate for that sort of rework. What am I missing?

 

[Scott 730]

I'm confused in reading this comment: Around here, farmers cut green, growing, corn plants, chop them up somewhat and put them under a white plastic cover (in a long row) to keep the O2 off them and they call it Sileage! This it the protein they feed to their cattle in the winter. Looks to me like this field would be a good candidate for that sort of rework. What am I missing?

You are missing the cobs and kernels that are in corn silage. This corn is too young to have either.

 

[paul]

Ugh. Was watching that storm sag, or race, down towards us. It was an unusual direction for storm track, and sure had a strong front line for a time. So sorry you got that mess. They will tell you the corn will recover, and it kind of will, but not to what it should have been, and more difficult harvest.

When it got here we got 1/3 inch of rain, was a strong enough wind gust to bring a few small tree branches down, but no problems.

Dang. That tests a farmers constitution.

Paul

 

[paul]

I'm confused in reading this comment: Around here, farmers cut green, growing, corn plants, chop them up somewhat and put them under a white plastic cover (in a long row) to keep the O2 off them and they call it Sileage! This it the protein they feed to their cattle in the winter. Looks to me like this field would be a good candidate for that sort of rework. What am I missing?

Corn silage. The leaves and husks and cob and kernels make a good feed ration as they ferment without oxygen to basically pickle themselves. It makes a nice balance of fiber and starch and protien with all the corn plant there, and easy to digest with the right moisture and chopped to the perfect short size.

Despite the much better headers choppers have now, broken up and twisted corn stalks do not feed well into the chopper, so you miss some. The stalks should feed in and get processed into a perfect little bit the right length. With the mangled stalks now they come out different sizes.

Far less leaves in the silage now. Going to be a higher percent of stalk, which is the least useful part of the feed.

Far less kernels on the ears, so there is less energy and protien.

When the stalks and leaves and young ears (probably none there yet) get pelted with hail they dent and damage. This allows fungus and disease to enter and create mold and other damages. This lowers the feed value.

If damaged enough this corn might not have tassels, and so won’t pollinate and not develop any kernels at all. Probably not that bad, but ….

Certainly, badly hail damaged corn often is rescued by turning it into silage, but it’s a lot poorer feed than if it hadn’t been damaged.

Paul