Replanting early planted corn

[Hobbyfarmer]

in central Indiana.

Talked to a good farmer friend a little SE of Indy this Morning and he was talking about all the disease problems in the too early planted corn in his area. He said many of the fields with 4 to five leaf sized corn was having a 25 to 35% death rate due to the cold induced diseases. Mainly fungal type attacking the roots. Many problems showing up with the warm dry conditions in the last few days.

He said most that were replanting were going back to corn due to the herbicides already on the fields.

Does anybody know more about this? How big an area?

More of the USDA's phamtom bushels going away. Just one of the advangages of planting too early.

[roarintiger1]

This can't be happening.  USDA said August and September corn was going to keep the corn carryout over 800 million.

[rusureofit]

We had really hard rain a couple weeks ago and the ground got crusted hard just west and south of me.  The agronomist said they are replanting now as stands are as low as 15-20 thousand population.

I had a good stand of corn but last night got hail on 25 acres of corn and shreded it pretty bad.   25 acres of beans completely gone and another 25 acres about half gone.  They were planted april 27th and were about 3 inches tall.  I was just on the edge of the hail storm, others got it much worse losing almost all of their corn.  You have to wonder about the weather now, we haven't lost a field to hail in 60 years on my farm, maybe I was due?  I haven't bought hail insurance because it never paid.  At least I have time to replant.

[Hobbyfarmer]

HERE IN HIS OWN WORDS FROM ANOTHER FORUM HE POSTS ON.

 "then the tele started ringing off the hook -- so to speak -- anyway the chatter was about seedling blight , oh yes , them 225 BPA looking fields are falling fast around here ! The main thing in common was plant date , don't know all of them but it was the second go round of planting -- like April 5-10 ?? cool -- well F-ing cold then wet and then frost and then warm and then back cold , and more cold rain -- well you get the idea , I can tell you of 600 acres in just a few miles . Now back to yesterday putting on 32 % , I started to see the SB here and there - not to bad -- but it was his last planted , then today I got into the first planted , I had to make a call to him -- he had better get over and take a look see , I would guess that his 34,000 was down to under 20 in some spots and as a whole I was seeing alot more , over the whole field that was NOT going to make it , remeber this is just around here ,close , BUT I would bet there is a he11 of alot more here in Indiana than most might think . Even if they don't have to replant , the field i was in will lose at lease the top 20 - 25 IF they quit dieing . I will go out on a limb here and say it's probably more of a Central IN and maybe some Northern parts of In . NOT southern . I would also think the the Buckeye state will start seeing this problem in the next few days .
It's easy here to spot the early planted corn here ! It's the ones that look like sh1t ! and boy's there's more looking like that every day here .

One other thing - this was part of the corn that them SOB's in the USDA thought was going to save the day , and it's only what ? May 19th ? LMAO"

[rayjenkins]

Long term ag statistics indicate that 2-4% of the corn crop had to be re-planted each year, for a variety of reasons...

We are probably re-planting less these days due to better seed treatments, planting equipment, etc.

[roarintiger1]

Ok...3% of the planted corn crop would be almost 3 million acres, At a 150 bpa average, that would be 450 million bushels that USDA won't be able to add to 2012's stocks number.  Subtracting that from their 850 million carryover would leave only a 400 million bushel carryover.  The experts did say that they were figuring early planted corn into the carryover number for 2012 crop...now, they will have to take those bushels out......yea, right.

[idalivered]

roaringtiger....i like that. seems like a reasonable assumption to me. Your calculations are generous to the usda 'cause you're assuming that all 3 million will be harvested.  this has nothing to do with replanting, but one local coop in nia started picking up a million bushel pile last week. Looks like it's in excellent condition. I hope they made a bundle on the carry. (somehow)

[roarintiger1]

idalivered,  thanks.     You know, the people that make this stuff up, (early planted bushels counted in last years' totals) never will change their story. They just make other assumptions to drown out whatever they said in the first place.    

Just wondering , is the corn that your local co-op picking up already contracted? Does that mean that their bins are empty and this is the last of their corn? Is this a "normal" time for them to be picking up the pile?  Thanks

[SouthWestOhio]

roaringtiger most of the replant around here was April planted corn. The March plantings appear to be doing well. But there wasn't too much of it. I think it is the March plantings that USDA was counting on for August harvest. How's that March corn doing in the rest of the corn belt? 

[chuckdeefence]

Ain't Mother Nature grand?  I'm not a farmer on the scale of some here and I can't imagine the ups and downs some have to deal with.