I've come to peace with it. We've hashed over every scenario of how we might have got over more ground and came to the conclusion we were pushing two days too early on everything this spring as it was and if we hadn't done that we would still be at Zero. The rain this weekend and again yesterday pretty much put closure on it for me. I would like to spot in corn in some creek bottom holes but even that is looking bleak. Mainly to have cover. Whether it gets harvested or not isn't really the issue.
I've planted beans as late as July 10th for DC. They usually make around 20. 0 is a real possibility too and occasionally you can get 30-35. Anything planted between now and before July 1 has a chance at 40 but realistically it's all about weather and more times than not they are 30. If we would have missed Sunday's rain we might have pushed to finish Monday. Basically anything after this weekend is a big gamble and with current forecast I think it's a done deal for many. Especially if you have a good PP number to work with.
Guys are wore out. And the ones that did get some planted didn't get rolling till mid June, so they already taking some risk. It would be one thing if they just had a little more to do and their major acres where in and going good. But with most hardly started its just not worth it to risk that many acres this late
Locally BTO pulled in across from us this weekend. Ran maybe 2 hours and got rained out. They pulled equipment out and left. Got maybe 10% of the farm planted. Tender trucks are still there so I'm guessing they just went home. DONE
It's defiantly been one for the books.
I am at or over 30 inches since early May and I guess just west of here they are pushing over 35 inches since early May
You just can't make is shat up. It's just plum stupid how much it's rained
Like I said, I'm at peace with it and am now focused on getting what beans are in sprayed and then focus on summer and see how things progress
I guess I should feel blessed we got our corn in fairly timely and most of it looks decent. There are some locally that didn't get any corn or beans planted and these are not operations that like to take PP, they have gas on that's now worthless and some bean acres burned down too. I know of 4 local BTO's that rumor is between all of them there's around 30K PP right there. That's just in my immediate backyard and only 4 operations. Again rumor but based on what ground I know they farm it's probably accurate
Have a good one and find peace with it. Don't beat yourself up over it. This spring has tested my faith pretty hard but I still gotta believe it all happens for a reason.
Can't believe the 4th is next week. Slow down and unplug for a few
