Combines Crop report revisited

[Kaye2]

How long does that gas remain present in an upright siloIJ Is it for the whole time there is silage in it or does it dissipate after timeIJ Always wondered but have never been around them much. Never hurts to keep these things in your mind, right! Nick

 

[augerhead]

Where are you at. Here in ohio we have good crops in one field and poor crops in the field next to it. This is because corn in this area was planted from april 10 to june 15,a lot of differance in it.The same go's for the beans. There is also sereral thousand acres in the state that went preventive planting due to a late wet spring. Just would like to know how it is across the rest of the country, Put your two cents worth in.

 

[Rig]

Where are you located. One has to wonder from reading this forum where the good crops are. Maybe the only people who respond to these crop reports are the unfortunate, since we farmers hate to say anything that sounds optimistic. You know--gripe,gripe,gripe..... Here in east central Kansas we are experiencing our 6th summer in a row where we have needed just one more rain or two in July_August to have tremendous crops. We had been raising 30-50 bushel beans routinely but now we just raise lots of plant and green shrucken-up buckshot. It could be the worst around this neck-of-the-woods since 1980. Early planted corn is making 60-80 bushel, the rest of our spring crops are toast. Recent pattern has been lots of heat and humidity but no trigger mechanisim to get storms going. Where are all those good old tornados and hail when you need them.

 

[T__langan]

Silo gas will disappear after a week or two. They tell us to leave the blower set up at the silo and use it to pump clean air in for 15 min. or so if you have to enter the silo - the air will displace the gas. But as bad as the gas is from this drought stressed corn, I wouldn't trust that to work. Best to get the silo capped and just stay the heck away from them for a couple of weeks. In '88, we had gas come down the silo chute and our feedroom was full of it. Tom langan

 

[T__langan]

West Central Wisconsin. The only place the corn is still green and the beans are looking even halfway decent is in the very lowest areas of the fields. Mainly along waterways, ect. The rest is toast.

 

[augerhead]

Here things are good and green but a frost better stay away till late.It was dry here last year now this year darn near drowned.Cut the wheat in July than it rained for 12 or 14 days in a row,just a little hard to get things done.Calling for a chance of rain all week,wish I could send you some.Maybe it will be better next year!

 

[marshall]

I am in N.E. Texas. Our winter wheat was low yielding. Area average around mid 30's. We generally produce 60 bushel wheat. To dry and hot during head fill and to wet during harvest. Milo will average around 5500 lbs_acre, Corn 100 bu_ac and soybeans upper 30's. We had a really good soybean crop going until mid July. Turned very dry windy and hot (100+ deg) but we expect that. What really hurt the soybeans is the afternoon showers. Pops the beans right out of the pods. I got one field of beans that has had 2 hail storms on it. They still managed 34 bu_acre. Ground is covered with beans. I only like a few acres of beans being done with spring crops. My second crop beans will not be much. Maybe 15 bu_ac but it keeps the plow out of the fields. Overall it is an average year for me. But I have had 5 drought crops out of the last 6. I need a break. Good luck.