56%

[Hobbyfarmer]

Of the beans in the USA are NOT planted.

June one is almost here and rain and mud til after that will most surely = a above chance of a short bean harvest.

As a side note that is almost my exact % I am planted on the bean side.

[c-x-1]

Hobby,

can you confirm what i'm starting to hear about the newly emerged corn in waterlogged areas being yellow and tough? @ the end of the season Corn might be the bigger story?

what does "tough" mean to you?----are they dying, going temporarily dormant?

thanks,

c-x-1

[arnfarm735]

Every year the corn is yellow and looking tough when it is cool and wet.

The difference is, it is usually the end of April, not the end of May............

[c-x-1]

thanks arnfarm735,

what agronomic difference does end of May imply?

[sw363535]

Very little recovery time

[c-x-1]

thanks sw,

drrrrrrrr----simplist, most obvious answer is usually the right one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[sw363535]

Cx-1,

Vrbuck mad a great statement on one of the other threads about it also concerning time getting short.  Above I-70 they are getting late enough that enough heat units to make a crop before frost will have to be very hot or many hot days crammed together which is not good for polination.  A cool august is good for yield but it won't finish before frost damage.

Here we have a longer growing season so we will finish but we are way behind.  The feeders are not going to get the august corn they expect.  Unless we keep having 4 days of high winds every week without rain.

"extreme weather gets fixed by extreme weather"