Posted by John_PA on June 28, 2013 at 22:26:48 from (72.95.163.62):
In Reply to: crop futures today posted by tractormiallis on June 28, 2013 at 19:50:59:
I got 150 acres in corn this year. I finished planting on June 9th. We had a hard frost on May 24th. A lot of guys got planted before the frost, but didn't have emergence, or didn't have it quite as bad as I did. Right now, their corn is chest high and dark green.
I started planting on May 25th. I finished on June 9th. My best corn is about knee high, and nice and green, but, there are yellow spots in the fields where water is laying. Deer and Turkey did a number on my corn as it started coming up. I should have used Avipel, but had a hard time with my seed and fert dealer this year. They are extremely busy with gas well and pipeline crews coming in and buying 15-20 ton of fertilizer daily, each. It's a mad house.
My last corn planted, I switched to a 90 day smart stacks variety and it is all emerged and barely V5 stage right now. Everything is a bit yellow. I have 4 tons of urea sitting in the tender right now. I was going to go out to spread it 3 days ago, but it started raining. In the past 3 days, we have gotten 5.25 inches of rain. It is really bad out there. I have hay getting ruined.
In my neck of the woods, there are not that many acres of corn, but, there are slightly more this year than the previous year. The corn is barely better than it was this time last year.
As for the report, I am shocked. I believe it is nonsense. The only thing I have heard is that planting for everyone is delayed, too much rain, too cold, and acres being switched to soybeans. I can understand that some other states out of the corn belt added acres, but, it won't take much for those places to end up in a drought condition, or with too much heat. I don't think that the USDA report is very accurate, and I am skeptical. It pained me to see corn bounce that low when all other reports were pretty dismal.
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