1988 corn and bean yields, don't forget 2002 and 2003

[highyields]

A frost in June?!?!?!   You must be up north, sorry didn't read where you where at.   I guess 88 is talked about due to the national wide drought, similiar to 74.   Think if we have a major drought national drought this year, I wonder if they'll do price control actions, I guess How high is too high, Just think right now we have enough wheat in this country for milling purposes, and the austrialia wheat crop if it is good enough for feed wheat will take off some pressure of corn.  But corn is still the stable everywhere for every thing.  And the US wheat crop isn''t looking to good now, they little bit of wheat that is grown around here it didn't even all come up last fall.  since the economies are bad world wide would they consider price control? 

[Blacksandfarmer]

Highyields Im from southern Michigan, near the IN, OH border. We got a light frost first couple days in June that year, I never really thought it would frost in June, although rare it happened and just enough to ding the crop up some. I don't think it was a widespread frost, I farm in a low lying area which normally seems to be a good thing. Our ground in this particular area is pretty good for Michigan but also seems to frost a little easier than just a few miles away. Late maturing soybeans held up the best of the crops with some beans getting good late August rain yielding pretty well, corn took a beating for guys and the yields were all over the board, most yielding from 80 bu to low 100's, our county average is right about 130 bu. 

This fall wheat went into the ground dry and things stayed dry. I need to take a trip into NW Ohio and take a look at their wheat crop, that region plants quit a bit of wheat. As for price control I don't know, I do think the stars a aligned for a real food shortage scare if weather in the US is poor this summer.

[highyields]

I'd have to look at the map to see if your further north then I am.  I"m about 50 miles south of Omaha. I can see Iowa and can almost see missouri.  Thats interesting that you can grow winter wheat there.  In northeast nebraska NORTH of omaha you can't raise winter wheat or spring wheat there very well. 

[Blacksandfarmer]

There isn't much wheat grown in this area. I see a lot more wheat southeast of here into Ohio, there clay soil seems to support wheat a little better than ours. With all the lake effect snow we get it can act as an insulator against extreme cold for winter wheat.

  It has been interesting to see what a drought can be to different folks around the country. In 1988 corn yield around here was around 30 bushel an acre and in Iowa it was still 150's and 160's. Haha we have a hard time hitting 160 averages in a decent year here! With some decent July rains we can hit 150 bushel dryland corn and irrigated corn yields seem to be around 190 or 200 bushel depending on the field. In the 2007 drought my county averaged 114 bushel corn and that's counting dryland and irrigated acres, had that been 20 years ago I doubt the yield would have been that good. I hope we don't get a chance to see if modern seed technology would make a difference in a 1988 type of drought any time soon.... I forward contracted some of my 2011 corn for around $5 and not $15!!