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Is it raining yet?
It appears that the markets think that the entire corn belt is getting a crop boosting rain. We did get a .1 shower here in NW Ohio last night. So yeah, I got rain. Anyone else?
Also, what are your legitimate crop prospects as they look right now?
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Re: Is it raining yet?
In southern Wi. we have been getting really spotty showers. A mile can make 1.5 inch difference. For the most part no one is getting anything. Things look so so. Sandy ground is really showing stress. The irrigators are running heavy. If it rained today we could have a great crop. But they keep saying that the end of the month is supposed the be wetter yet it is not showing up in the forecasts.
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Re: Is it raining yet?
Scattered showers , tomorrow , maybe , and a better chance next week , maybe - ?
Grandpa said , every day , we are another day closer - - -
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Re: Is it raining yet?
Sw ---some showers of 1/2 to 1 inch Friday or Saturday across the panhandles --- sw ks, se Colo, continued dry....
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Re: Is it raining yet?
No, .07" for the month of June whose average for the month is 4.92" June normally is the wettest month of the year. If the rains would start in the next few days and continue adequately the rest of the growing season we would have a very good crop. Corn looks good in the morning but by 3PM starting to roll. Beans seem to be abnormally short. I saw a bean field yesterday almost unrecognizable because of an infestation of "Derecho" corn. That field needed sprayed with Targa ten days ago to avoid yield loss.
I believe that market drivers are skating to where they think the puck will be not where the puck is (weather.) Again, the weather here in central Iowa is very dry and warm. The cool nights are buying some time, but to be 97* this Thursday. If wide spread rains do not arrive in Iowa in the next 10 to 14 days, maybe sooner, significant yield loss will occur. MHO.
I still have not sold any new crop grain and still have couple of pick-up loads of corn and beans of old crop to sell. Maybe I should before storage cost eat up more of their value.
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Re: Is it raining yet?
Wind has a great point....... Diseasters don't disappear with the changing of the calendar. Last years disaster takes a couple of years to go away. A common example is the rules for crop insurance claims in irrigation, where they require irrigation and finish the crop to see how much it will make. Once the foliage is gone it makes a weedy mess that lives on for a couple of years of aggravation. Usda knows but ignores reality..... the derecho damage will live on in the 2021 crop in both increased expense and declined production. Rain won't change that. Drought will make it worse.