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Post by kevinwcmo on Jul 24, 2011 14:23:29 GMT -5
and in a hurry. these past 8 days of 100+ heat indexes have put a hammer on some, use to be good looking corn. the beans are holding on for now. we are no way in the shape of the people out in kansas and to their south, but starting to understand a little what they are going through. been spoiled the last few years "here" with the water we had in july and august, almost forgot i was in missouri and not the "i" states ;D i guess welcome back to reality. sorry for the rant, just been baling a little hay around fields and have seen them almost decline daily. it will be interesting how the fine usda will fudge the numbers if others are experiencing the same as we are.
kevin
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Post by MoJeeper™ on Jul 24, 2011 17:48:26 GMT -5
We've had poor crops here the last 4 years do to being to wet. Now again this year we had a good start, then the rains came, then one weekend of 10" took out a lot. Now the lack of rain is finishing them off.
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Post by Dave-ECIA on Jul 24, 2011 18:17:34 GMT -5
It seems to me that USDA weights the central corn belt a little too heavily and discounts the areas that you guys are from. We've had various amounts of rain through the center and northern parts of Iowa. We had 3.4" in the last 2.5 day here.
Crop condition reports will reflect our improved conditions after nearly three weeks without a rain and discount yours. Overall, this crop has problems but won't show until next spring in the reports.
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Post by MoJeeper™ on Jul 24, 2011 20:43:12 GMT -5
No rain here again today.. The clouds did make it nice to work outside though.
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Post by Gambi80 on Jul 24, 2011 22:18:13 GMT -5
1.6 inches of rain here today...in about 45 minutes...45-50mph gusts.
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Post by kevinwcmo on Jul 25, 2011 4:15:30 GMT -5
Ya I thought we were going to get a shower yesterday morning but it fizzled out before it got to us. I guess were going to have to have a damn hurricane come up through the gulf to break this thing, but I don't wish that on the folks down there either.
Kevin
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Post by RickNCMD on Jul 25, 2011 5:11:33 GMT -5
Rain here is about as hit and miss as I have ever seen it. There are places that couldn't look better, go a mile and it couldn't look worse. I could go for a decent tropical depression, don't really need that hurricane thing.
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Post by Bristol Hillbilly on Jul 25, 2011 6:57:34 GMT -5
We got rain at home most of yesterday. Dumped 2.4" out this morning. Some of the ground we farm 6 miles south had'nt seen a .1"as of late yesterday afternoon and it is the lighter of the ground. Just with the cooler temps we had yesterday the crops looked tremendously better.
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Post by Hobbyfarmer on Jul 26, 2011 10:52:16 GMT -5
Looked at one small spot of beans on one field and was surprised at the # and size of the pods already on the plants. the last few years seems they waited for ever to get with it and these are trucking right a long. we had two floods over them the end of June and the survivors are really looking quite good even though we have only gotten a quarter of an inch of moisture in the last 3 weeks.
With the pods I saw and what they have done the last 4 years looks like they think we are in for an early frost. Kind of hard to imagine that with these heat units we are getting.
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Post by rfarmgirl on Jul 27, 2011 23:41:30 GMT -5
Been extremely hot and dry here the month of July. Had 6 tenth of rain on Sunday the 24th. Pulled a few ears Monday. Corn is still hangin in there, but sure hope we get a good shower soon.
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Post by ses on Jul 28, 2011 7:12:17 GMT -5
We got.55 last night. Things start burning up then we'll get a shower like that. Keeps kicking the can down the road. Might end up with a few bushels after all.
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