Insurance date

[idalivered]

MT, depending on your insurance coverage, getting something planted is a better option than PP. In norh iowa there was a good amount of PP in the spring of 2013. I think alot of people just got sick of the fight. I heard of people dragging planters with 500 hp quadtracks, so they could hit insurance dates.  as far as insurance date/planting dates , it is my experience that those days can get alittle "fuzzy" in my memory. "yeah, i think it was the the xx of may when we got that planted." When i read here and crop comments on agweb, about problems in texas, oklahoma, arkansas, missouri, ohio, kansas, etc. it seems like a slow motion wreck is in the works. No one is really noticing.

[Mizzou_Tiger]

Picked up another 1.6 last night

That pretty well seals the deal on corn around here

Not even sure I can replant at this point. Ground that needs it is standing water again

There will be a few fields "planted" on May 25th. But it's so wet and forecast is so raw it won't be many

As for PP on beans. Still have a bit of time. But again. The forecast says we are into the June 5-7th slot before we have a chance. If we can go by the 15th then we will run hard. By the 20th it's going to be a tough decision. While not pretty. When you consider the no expense at all against maybe a 40 bu crop at $8 with expenses. PP wins. 45 at $8 or 40 at $9 swings back to a small win on pushing ahead.

Guess what I am saying is, might be Smart to take the check. And if I am so inclined buy the board when she bottoms.

[Hobbyfarmer]

I planted 75.5 acres beans yesterday for the young farmer I pulled out the day before.

He was also planting in too wet of conditions somewhere else.

I don't think there was a time that at least one end if not the whole planter was planting in too wet of conditions.

I left a lot of beans in a less than closed muddy slot. I don't think he could have planted that field with his big heavy 24 row

equipment. 

One end of the field joined the corn portion of the farm and corn that was planted 10  days ago was just starting to spike through.

Water been dripping off the roof here since about 11:30 last night.

I like MT am going to watch PP very closely, I have watched my neighbor go broke trying to force a crop instead of quitting before he got behinder. 

From my vantage point on the mountain I was on yesterday I could see every one but one of my fields and everyone of them had water standing on them. Wetter now than yesterday.

One word of advice I have for anyone unfortunate enough to have to take PP is control the weeds and don't let them reseed.

[IllinoisSteve]

Okay Tiger, you and I rarely see eye to eye or agree on anything.  Quite frankly we don't like each other very much either.  Putting that aside I am truly sorry for what you and other producers in that region are going thru.  This includes you too Hobby.  I know you aren't the kind of guy to farm for insurance but it sounds like PP might be your only option pretty soon.  Up here I would plant beans into the middle or end of June but where you are at your odds of intense late summer heat are higher than here.  Lets be honest.  We all know what usually happens after a period of wet like this.  When it stops raining it really stops!  It usually turns hot too which makes for a lot of really hard ground.  Hang in there fellas.  I feel for you.

[Shaggy98]

We're still about a month away on final plant date on milo for Central Kansas but it'll be at least a week before we can get into fields to begin preplant spraying or the final tillage pass, and that's if it stops raining today and we've got rain in the forecast for nearly everyday next week.  Yes the moisture is nice and I'm not complaining about that one little bit.  Looks like once things dry down wheat harvest will be nearly the same time as fall crop planting.  I'll probably leave the planter parked in the shed this year and opt to drill all my milo as I can cover an additional 50% of the acres with the drill vs. using the planter.  Won't be as efficient on the seed, but will make up the loss of inputs with the gain of time (at least that's what I keep telling myself).  Time is money right?

Went to the Dr. last week and prepaid for anxiety medication through the month of June.  At the rate I'm going it might last me through the month of May.

Wishing everyone a happy and safe Memorial day weekend.  Don't forget to thank one of your local veterans this weekend.

[Hobbyfarmer]

Picture of headliner with chain damage, 

Good chains are more economical.

[Shaggy98]

Hobby just out of curiosity if you don't get the beans planted within the proper time frame window, could you opt to plant something different like say milo?  Wasn't sure if there is a market for a crop like that in southern Iowa.

[sw363535]

That is an option we have 200 miles south of you shaggy...... 

[westernia80]

Went to Atlantic today to a cattle show.  Saw a few corn feilds not done and lots of beans not done.  Talked to a friend of my sons at the show whose family farms a couple thousand acres on the Missouri bottom, says they still have 300 acres of corn left not counting replant and 500 of beans.  This coming week looks warmer but rain chances all week.

[kyu2852570]

Does pp pay according to what level crop insurance you bought?