Re: Are the Midwest crops going to be a total loss ?
[Re: AKAjust]
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05/28/19 07:26 AM
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My son was asked if he had crop insurance. All he has planted is some new hay ground. Can you plant corn or beans with a helicopter? just Actually 20 years or so ago in a wet year they did fly on some beans and milo on wheat stubble around here.It just depends if the ground is soft enough for the seed to get in the ground a little and get a rain after. Shouldn't be a problem finding wheat stubble soft enough this year.
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Re: Are the Midwest crops going to be a total loss ?
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05/28/19 08:09 AM
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I read where in MN, SD and ND a lot of ground will not be planted this year because to wet.
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Re: Are the Midwest crops going to be a total loss ?
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05/28/19 08:17 AM
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Local weather guys keep saying big pattern change coming the middle of this week for the following 10 days or so. Jet stream goes higher so eastern Great Plains (maybe eastern Midwest as well)gets warmer and the any storms are more stretched out.
I thought I heard for this area that crop insurance on corn starts to drop 1% a day starting June 1 and then can't get any after June 15. I was out in the country both Sat and Sun afternoons working a third of an acre "extensive space" truck graden stuff I have going this year at a friend of mine's place and saw very few guys working/planting the fields, even though much of the rolling uplands seem dry enough. A lot of penciling out "prevent plant" going on.
From what I understand, the limitation on soybeans isn't necessarily the length of the growing season, although that obviously is important too, but when they flower and pod grow because beans need a certain threshold of daylight during that stage. You can have a great warm Sept but the yield will shrink substantially because of the falling amount of light per day. August makes soybeans.
I think the government should buy a lot more biodiesel made from sb oil this year. There's a much smaller percentage of diesel that is plant or animal fat-based than the percentage of ethanol used in gasoline so we could surely make more of it. Soybean oil as a percentage of biodiesel stock has been falling the past few years as the amount of Canadian canola and corn oil has eroded its share. The corn oil percentage may be self-correcting with less corn grown but the Canuks surely like to sell us canola (the U.S. is the largest buyer of Canadian rapeseed/oil. Instead of having to export 50% or more of our soybeans out of the country, let's make more use of them here within our borders!
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Re: Are the Midwest crops going to be a total loss ?
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05/28/19 08:40 AM
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some corn up here. a lot is washed out a lot of what is up is spotty. per acre yield wont be good. wheat harvest is supposed to start in a few weeks. it is turning yellow but no way the combines get in or moisture content gets down enough if it keeps raining. I havnt seen any beans here at all
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Re: Are the Midwest crops going to be a total loss ?
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05/28/19 09:00 AM
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Re: Are the Midwest crops going to be a total loss ?
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05/28/19 11:53 AM
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I haven't laid eyes on a corn or bean sprout yet here in southern Michigan. The only thing growing around here is cabbage that got planted in late march. Even the sand hills have standing water on them with more rain forecasted.
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