Combines Crop report across the land input request

[T__langan]

Things are extremely dry here in west-central Wisconsin. Traveled to Milwaukee a week ago and it looked dry all the way down there. We're forced to chop corn silage this weekend if no rain, and things don't look promising for precip. Corn is simply drying up and beans look pretty sad too. Even with rain now, we're looking at a real hit in yields. I guess it was just our turn for a dry year. The last bad drought we had around here was '88. Been dry a few times since then, but we got rain in time for an average crop. Hope everyone else has a better report! Tom langan

 

[IowaDan]

I'm 35 miles southwest of Des Moines and we're really dry. Things were great thru 1st week of July and still looked pretty good until the end of last week, then the heat arrived. I think the last 5 days has knocked 5 or 10% off corn yield. Just finished spraying all soybeans for aphids, another unexpected expense. Beans very short and under stress. Gov. report pegged Iowa bean ave. at 46 bu. Without rain soon I'll be lucky to see 36. Good luck to all and have a safe harvest.

 

[big_orange]

live in east central Iowa,just sw of Cedar Rapids,not much rain in last 3 weeks,corn looked okay till last Sunday,now the ears are dropping down and not mature,probably 110-180 b_acre,won't average 158 like the report said,don't have any beans this year,but from what I've looked at,they got to make 35 before they make 46.Insects are starting to get bad in the beans.Rain would still help both crops.

 

[Unit_2]

I'm about 45 miles north west of Wichita, KS. I cut four small fields of dry land corn yesterday. Three fields along a creek bottom made 45, last year the same fields made about 100. The forth field was an upland field, it made about 10. We've had about 3_4 inch of rain since the middle of June. K.A.

 

[Silver_Bullet]

The western cornbelt, (NE, KS),is toast. Most of the dryland crops will not be harvested. There are only a few areas that caught a few rains in the past 2 months that will harvest some. Too late now for most crops. We will need rain in the next 30 days to get the wheat planting conditions to go. Irrigated crops faired better than last year but there will still be some loss due to heat. We were fortunate to have a good wheat crop this year. Otherwise, this area was on its third consecutive year of poor summer and fall crops.

 

[brassring]

Well here in St.Clair co. Ill. we haven't had rain since July18 we were very late getting planted this yr. again because of all the rain and just like last yr. when it quit it quit.not all the co. is dry though the northern part looks good again it's just us southern guys that are hurting again. some guys who had early corn planted fear theirs won't fair any better cause it didn't get the rain when needed our corn still looked good last week cause of the cool weather but the heat has returned and it 's starting to show stress. last yr 50 bu. corn this yr. anyone's guess yet, beans are shut down and not growing but the weeds keep on getting bigger!!!

 

[mo_farm]

Here in my part of north east Missouri things are getting dry. We were blessed with good rains in July and I've been told that the crops around my county look as good as any in the state. The corn was planted early and will probally be better than last year but to the south and west of me they have had very little rain and are pretty well burned up. Beans need rain NOW.

 

[Oedie86]

Hey Tom, I was just curious as to where you are in West Central WisconsinIJ We go to vacation every year up there. We are just up the Chippewa River from Bruce. Your location just caught my eye. Our last day, Aug. 2nd, the corn looked awful. Beans looked alright when we were up there, but I'm sure a lot has changed since then. Ditto on '88, dad is always reminding me of that. Good luck to you. Ryan

 

[ksfarmer1]

We're 15 miles north of Wichita, KS. We had a decent wheat crop averaging around 45 bpa. We got in early, finishing May 4th, and got our milo planted. Planted short season variety and caught some good spring rains. I would like to start cutting milo Wednesday or Thursday of this week. Took a little hail and 70 mph winds (no rain) a week or so ago, but still looks like we should average about 50 or so. Those who double cropped after wheat will probably not harvest anything. We are in the black hole right now for rain. None yet in August and only about a half inch in July. We are up to 14 days over 100 for the summer. Our dryland soybeans are about 2 feet tall, but only have 2 or 3 seeds per pod. They resemble miniature lima beans and really need a rain. We normally have 6 foot tall silage that we cut mid to late September. This year we cut it a week ago and it wasn't even as tall as the hedge fence posts next to it. Our custom cutter could hardly get it to feed due to its heighth. We got a whopping 7 tandems off of 12 acres! The cattle pastures have been brown for weeks now. We may not have hay to go thru the winter if this keeps up. We got a grand total of one cutting off of our alfalfa. Normally, we get three with no problem. The leaf hoppers and grass hoppers took our second cutting and the drought took the third. I guess we should fare better than most, but far from a good year. Bring on the rain! Marc

 

[tomcat]

West Mighigan Corn as a rule is some of best I remember for a long time. We havn't grown soys from that many years but these are our best ever. Wheat was average nothing to complain about but we had better. Oats was 1_2 a crop at best. Everything could use a rain and some more heat before the first frost.