Posted on 05/25/2019 8:32:41 PM PDT by Windflier
2019 is turning out to be a nightmare that never ends for the agriculture industry. Thanks to endless rain and unprecedented flooding, fields all over the middle part of the country are absolutely soaked right now, and this has prevented many farmers from getting their crops in the ground.
I knew that this was a problem, but when I heard that only 30 percent of U.S. corn fields had been planted as of Sunday, I had a really hard time believing it. But it turns out that number is 100 percent accurate. And at this point corn farmers are up against a wall because crop insurance final planting dates have either already passed or are coming up very quickly.
In addition, for every day after May 15th that corn is not in the ground, farmers lose approximately 2 percent of their yield. Unfortunately, more rain is on the way, and it looks like thousands of corn farmers will not be able to plant corn at all this year. It is no exaggeration to say that what we are facing is a true national catastrophe.
According to the Department of Agriculture, over the past five years an average of 66 percent of all corn fields were already planted by now…
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Total Catastrophe For U.S. Corn Production: Only 30% Of U.S. Corn Fields Have Been Planted – 5 Year Average Is 66%
No corn for food? Plant potatoes, tomatoes, string beans. :)
We will not have enough ethanol! Oh noes! The planet will die! /s
China isn't buying pork, corn or soybeans right now because of the trade war so farmers are hurting but if grain prices would double it would help out the farmers and every other ag related business and that all trickles down to other businesses in small farming communities.
I knew to expect a wiseass, but not this early in the thread .. LOL
Seriously though, corn derivatives are in nearly all processed foods today. A severe shortage in the normal crop output is going to impact food prices like nobody's business.
That was one of my first thoughts. Is there no way to drain or pump the fields?
Eat more rice..........
They’ll get it in. Wont be long duration corn though so production will fall off.
They got till last of June. But, all the river bottoms will most likely not be planted at all.
Stop putting corn in our gas tanks. Problem solved.
Probable at about 1% or less in my area.
Some of the most productive row crop land in the country that doesn’t require irrigation
Farmers are a bit...”irritable” right now. To say the least.
We need a good 3-5 days of perfect drying weather and they will still be planting around standing water
Seed corn and beans won’t germinate in mud
they rot first
Its called field tile. And there has to be a place downhill to let it run.
Very expensive to put in.
Most of the hills/hilly grounds are planted. Its the lowlands and level grounds that arent.
Most of Oklahoma and Kansas are under water.
“No corn for food? Plant potatoes, tomatoes, string beans. :)”
And how do you propose they plant those things if they can’t get into the wet fields to plant corn?
You may be right about that. The latest article I could find on US corn reserves is from September 2018:
“Drowning In Grain”- Reuters Special Report on the Global Grains Glut
Trump should declare a national emergency and commandeer Pelosi’s vineyard for corn planting. Transcropping, yeah, that’s the ticket.
They haven’t invented a boat pulled planter yet. River bottom farmers will probably go to soybeans. The Missouri River is 6’ or so above flood stage at StJoseph MO and even if the ground was clear of water that ground dries slow. I’m guessing it’s not much better on the Mississippi. Tough year unless you’re farming above the bottoms.
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