Corn & Soybean crop maturity & Harvest Progress in your neck of the woods?

[HOGFARMER]

Here in NEOhio we are behind where we normally are.  The corn is still in the milk stage and the beans are just really starting to fill.  Too many cool days and nights in May, June, and July.  How are things around your part of the country?  We sure don't need an early frost.  Thanks!

[Faron]

Pretty much describes our crop.  I pulled a few ears Saturday, and they were just beginning to dent  a little.  Beans are looking good, but need some time.  We sure don't need an early frost.  All our crops were planted in  June, and the beans in late June.

[Don_Papenburg]

Ours are late also .  We do need a lot of talk about an early frost from the weather liers  so the CBOT will start to increase the prices.

[Kansas]

Had a swath of hail go through my corn and several neighbors. It happened after pollination. Small hail, but a whole lot of it.  For the most part, the corn is in pretty good shape, probably down around 22 percent moisture. The guy that puts it in for me is worried though. About every 3rd stalk is brittle, pushes right over, due to the hail damage.  He wants to start trying to combine his own hail damaged corn in about 10 days, even though its going to be wet. Hate to take the moisture dock, but I guess it beats leaving it on the ground.
A few soybeans have started to turn yellow around here.

[Dana]

First frost and even some ice for a few locations in the northern lower penninsula of Michigan this morning. Above normal temps are reported to be coming in later this week. Corn is behind in developement.

[Norm]

We are just starting to see the early beans start to turn. The late beans are still growing well and if the aphids hold off as well as a frost they should do well. Corn is looking about as good as I've seen in years but a a couple of weeks back from where it should be.

Prices suck, if they don't recover next year you'll see a bunch of farm loans go sour. Notice the price of corn flakes didn't go down when my corn prices did.

[Banjo picker]

We don't row crop anymore, but i still look...The beans are still green as ever, but the corn is all but done in north ms and north al...i did see a field near Cherokee that had been combined around the edge a couple of swaths...might have been getting ready for a dove shoot, as the rest of the field is still standing.  Tim

[HOGFARMER]

Corn was all in by last week of May 101 to 105 day maturity and the beans were all planted by the end of the first week of June.  Crops really look good, but just way behing in maturing.

[DouginUtah]

A friend has a field of corn that is 10'-6" high. Any comments as to why it is so high and does it have any significance? Maybe because the field was fertilized with manure several years ago? Many stalks have three cobs (papa, momma, baby).

(An old wives tale has it that it means a hard winter is coming. I don't think so because adjacent fields are normal height.)

[Gary_C]

A friend has a field of corn that is 10'-6" high. Any comments as to why it is so high and does it have any significance?

Genetics is the main determining factor in height but certainly moisture, fertility, and sunlight (Growing Degree Units) will help achieve max height. Tall corn stalks does not always mean higher yields but it does mean more stalks (biomass) will be available or left to deal with after harvest.

[SPIKER]

North Cent. ohio same as NEOhio good looking plants but not maturing per normal, looks to be 3 weeks behind but just a guess, saw a bunch of contract pickers heading west yesterday on US30.

might ought to invest in the corn & bean futures huh!? :

with the late crop and high moistures might be a big jump in winter prices but I'm sure the guys who do that for a living already have driven the price speculation into the winter prices. >:(

Mark

[CLL]

Most corn here has done what its going to, but the beans was all put in late and they need all the time they can get, I seen some beans the other day that wasn't knee high and I'm only 5'7", need I say more. Days here in the low 70's and nights in the high 40's to low 50's. All the tomato's have stopped growing and none are getting ripe. Old timer the other day said it was going to be a cold wet winter, lots of snow.

[ely]

the corn i planted this year is all ready imo. but what do i know. i can tell you for sure we have to go to kansas this friday and pick up a 6 row header for the combine in order for us to harvest anything.


i have two fields seperated by a county road. the only difference in the two is i plowed my side with a 5 bottom plow, about as deep as it would turn.
all the old timers came by and told me i was messing up if i was planting corn.
so i layed off the  5 bottom on the next field. i only used a big 10 ft offset plow, or disc whatever you want to call it.

the corn on my side is twice as tall as the corn on the other side. same fertilizer,chicken litter. only diff. is the plowing.


what you farmers say about that. also when i get the corn combined i am looking to drill it all in wheat to hold the sand until its time to plant again.

[Norm]

Not knowing your soil type there ely it's almost impossible to say. If it's real sandy then a spring plowing is acceptable. Our soils are heavy so we do the tillage in the fall if possible. There is nobody using a moldboard plow around here, we've all gone to chisels and rippers. That is followed up in the spring with what's called a field cultivator.

The cover crop is a great idea.

[jim king]

We have no beans but the corn is will be ready by the end of September  .    The corn is planted on the sweet water river banks about the 1st of July during low water time as well as the watermelon and huge cantaloupe up to 2 feet long.  Our growing season is determined not by rain or cold but by the snow melt in the Andes  that  raises the river and then lowers it so we have a crop season of a bit more than 90 days.

The rice crop also is during this time  period .  All planting and harvesting is done by hand with no mechanization.   

[ely]

my soil is what i call sand. as in old peanut fields and watermelon patches.

[Handy Andy]

  My beans are late planted, and just getting pods made.  Then I have double crop beans planted after wheat, which are still making pods and still some blooms.  Started planting late because sometimes early beans get cooked in August which lots of times we get no rain.  Usually rains first week of September, so late planted can sit and wait. Early make nothing some times, except big plants.  This year the early will probably be better, haven't seen any turning yet, but they are about done. This is Kansas, near I 135 and I 70.

[HOGFARMER]

The last week has really helped, weather was ideal warm days and nights.  Corn is now in the late milk stage and about half the fields are well into the dough stage.  If you look you find an ear just starting to dent in these fields.  None of the saybeans around here have started to change colors yet.  Still need some good weather.

How are crops progressing in your part of the country?  Thanks!

[SwampDonkey]

Not much corn grown here this year. The price took such a beating last year that no one grew it much this season. Beans still look green here no yellowing yet. It seems they cut it in October around here. Usually they cut fodder corn this month around here, I assume the same this year because it was wetter last year and it was cut in September. Some other corn was cut in October last year. One year in November, it spoiled, the farmer lost $100,000. I never seen someone try to harvest crops in November before, it's practically winter.

[Handy Andy]

Early beans are startin to turn yellow.  Last couple days the field close here has gone from just a spot here and there to lots of yellow.  My beans are starting to fill.  The double crops are still putting on pods.  Hope it doesn't freeze  early.  The other thing is the price.  Seems that there are beans everywhere.  Bil planted 800 acres of double crop beans.  Wonder what will happen to the price when the bins start running over?  And the room at the elevators is limited.  They normally pile milo on the ground here, and our coop is working at making room for the beans, but there are beans everywhere and we've had rain in August!

[Kansas]

There used to be milo planted everywhere around here. Now, you can barely find a field. Think the roundup ready corn, coupled with better varieties and abundant moisture the last several years have changed things. Wheat has gone the same way. I figure eventually the rain will slow down and they will get back to those crops more.

[Norm]

The early varieties of beans are really starting to show a lot of yellow. The corn that we planted in late April is denting and the ears are drooping down.

I was wondering how our 3rd cutting of alfalfa would turn out since the 1st cutting was so late. It doesn't look too bad with the nice weather we've been enjoying.

[Roxie]

The corn and beans here are about a month behind.  You can still see the areas where corn was stunted from excess water, but the ears look healthy.  I would say that this area will have about the same production as last year, just later. 

One sure sign of harvest starting, is Cowboy Bob dragging the no-till grain drill from one Amish farm to the next.  They've started calling this weekend to get on the delivery schedule. 

As far as my garden, this is the first time in my life that the tomato crop was a waste of time.  Just too much moisture. 

[HOGFARMER]

Corn around here is moving into maturity.  Some dairy farmers are just starting to chop silage.  Beans except for double crop are coloring up and starting into leaf drop.  How are things in your neck of the woods?

[Norm]

We will start on the early beans Monday or Tuesday. I'm really looking forward to see how the new round-up ready to yield beans do.

The high moisture corn is done and the silage has been chopped. The seed corn harvest is in full swing and the shorter maturity corn will start this week if the rains hold off.