so they'll plant 90 day corn instead of 120 day
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…
I’ve been in business draining farmland for 45 years. (yes, I’m a ditchdigger)
Only so much you can do when it rains every other day.
The ground is simply saturated right now, even in field that are now grid tiled every 30 feet. Even pumping wouldn’t alleviate that when it rains every other day. The topsoil never gets a chance to dry, let alone the subsurface
You’d go about the length of the tractor into the field before you’d be stuck
so they'll plant 90 day corn instead of 120 day
Futures are down.
Or they were.
This keeps up a lot of red states will be blue in 2020.
Is there enough time this year to get the crop grown
Australia approves foreign grain imports for the first time in over a decade
https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2019-05-15/australia-approves-grain-imports/11113320
Eastern Iowa here.
A lot of bottom ground will not be planted this year. Or next couple. To much sand. Some upper land planted, but we are having so much rain my garden is not sprouting. To cold, to wet, to long.
Sunspot minimums bring famines.
Most corn is feed corn for livestock.
we’re all going to die
And Nebraska.
They are having to switch to seed variety that has a shorter growing season.
Not sure how the supply of that is though.
They’ll get a corn crop if they can get in the next 2-3 weeks, but they’re losing
Beans can be planted up into July, but the yield is going to take a hit.
My area will be short on wheat. The winter wheat is looking sickly and there’s been no time to drill in spring wheat
Most of the corn crop is used for livestock feed and biofuel.
The dims will love it if we are forced to become vegetarians with bicycles for transportation.
Yep, but I owe my wife and kids at least another twenty years. God willing, I'll make it.
Thnx from sunny dry southern cal
There’s only a couple gardens planted anywhere around me.
One fellow “no tilled” his garden because it’s simply too muddy to till up.
He sprayed to kill off the weeds and used a seeder that just punches a hole and drops a seed in
Hamburg IA was under water a week and a half ago and probably is again. Interstate 29 Craig, MO to IA line was closed and IA 2 was too, both reopened a week ago but I’m not sure now. I was at my mother’s for two weeks May9 to May21. Hills are planted but the bottoms are a mess. Tile and drainage run to the Missouri River. Hard to drain the ground like that.
Jimmy cracked corn and didn’t care...now this
CLIMATE CHANGE!!! But not global warming. The Trump Minimum. Figure we might as well call it that as the media will blame this on Trump.
and beef is already cheap....
It is called weather. However today if it is hot, cold, wet or dry they say it is global warming. It is just normal weather patterns repeating what they have done for many years.
It is my understanding we should be planting much more plantain.
And, much less white cauliflower.
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