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Only 30% Of U.S. Corn Fields Have Been Planted – 5 Year Average Is 66%
Activist Post ^ | Michael Snyder

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…


TOPICS: Agriculture; Business/Economy; Food
KEYWORDS: agriculture; corn; crops; farming; food; fuel
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To: Windflier

I think ya’ll need to spend a few days on a farm and see if you can figure out how to do just that.


41 posted on 05/25/2019 9:26:24 PM PDT by tiki
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To: Chode

Yeah the seed maturity re-adjustments are probably driving the seed salesmen/dealers crazy right now.

I gave way the the big farmers and went full-time OTR trucker in 01. In my farm years there were times i planted in conditions that were barely dry enough to keep from getting stuck. You planted shallower than normal. If the soil temp was warm enough, germination wasn’t a problem. But if it turned dry in a hurry the damp ground would crust and out came the rotary hoe. A little shower about 4 days after planting could help get the spikes to push on up through, and keep the hoe in the barnyard.

The huge planters and rubber tracked tractors out there today can get a LOT done when given just a couple of days a fair conditions.

I had some ground in river bottom flood plains. Planted around wet spots and came back days (even weeks later) if those spots dried up and planted more. Some years are good. Some not so good.

For farmers to think that voting democrat is going to be their salvation, they need only to remember these two words:

Jimmy Carter


42 posted on 05/25/2019 9:28:56 PM PDT by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
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To: Windflier

Is there a market play here, or are those of us on the outside too late (as usual)


43 posted on 05/25/2019 9:29:28 PM PDT by Oscar in Batangas (Jan. 20, 2017, 12:00 PM: The End of an ERROR)
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To: Windflier

That was before the floods in Nebraska and neighboring states. Many farmers lost their on-farm, stored grains. It is agood thing they started with a surplus but a hugely reduced corn crop will, at the very least, raise prices.


44 posted on 05/25/2019 9:33:37 PM PDT by tiki
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To: redgolum

Why do you say that?


45 posted on 05/25/2019 9:35:16 PM PDT by tiki
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To: tiki

I drove I 29 to 2 north to Nebraska City a week ago. I saw three big bins full of corn that ruptured due to flood waters, they can subtract that from stored reserves.


46 posted on 05/25/2019 9:40:07 PM PDT by Equine1952 (Get yourself a ticket on a common mans train of thought. ))
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To: Windflier

More rain storms tonight central OK thru KS thru northern MO into IL.

El Reno, OK has a tornado earlier. Amount of damage undermined.

KOCO 5 live stream:
https://www.koco.com/nowcast


47 posted on 05/25/2019 9:40:14 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: Zuriel
100%
48 posted on 05/25/2019 9:44:01 PM PDT by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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To: C210N

Right, the absent cortex said we should plant “yuca” (a tropical potato like root vegetable, that tastes great cooked with garlic and butter)... plant it in the fields of... what? Brooklyn?

Particular moronic comments from someone who has never ever, farmed, much less gardened. Yuca is tropical— grown in mexico caribbean, maybe s. Florida. No way a crop yielding per acre of digestible carbohydrates anything close to that of say, russet potatoes, or baking potatoes, or in the South Sweet Potatoes (long a staple in the diet of country folks, along with collards, and turnip greens).

Someone should just tell this idiot to read a book, and just shut the hell up- there are brighter people than her— that sort of thing. 6000 people voted her into office and we ALL have to listen to this drivel?


49 posted on 05/25/2019 9:44:21 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: Windflier

Aw, shucks. We just might have to use regular gas without ethanol for a while.


50 posted on 05/25/2019 9:46:56 PM PDT by matthew fuller (Introducing the 2020 dimmacrat Presidential Candidate, Gropey Joe and his little friend Mr. Wiggles!)
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To: Windflier

Then tarrifs on exports to China won’t matter.


51 posted on 05/25/2019 9:48:32 PM PDT by Raycpa
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To: Reno89519
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.

Ha! That'd be appropriate, but the impending minimum already has a name; the Eddy Minimum.

52 posted on 05/25/2019 9:50:28 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: matthew fuller

Corn is for food and whiskey, even feed corn it feeds livestock. Beef it’s what’s for dinner. Ethanol free gas is for going for or raising more food. IMO


53 posted on 05/25/2019 9:51:07 PM PDT by Equine1952 (Get yourself a ticket on a common mans train of thought. ))
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To: Windflier
This is a farmer in Iowa "Cole The Cornstar" who is funny (usually) and shows how they farm corn.
They planted two weeks ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=astkfz--QYo
54 posted on 05/25/2019 9:52:04 PM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: neverevergiveup

“That said, this is the 21st century, and I would think that we would have the technological ability to adapt to issues such as this. “

you can’t plow, plant or harvest in mud ...


55 posted on 05/25/2019 9:52:41 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Windflier

Iowa,Illinois, Nebraska,Minnesota, Indiana, and S. Dakota represent 60% of the total corn crop in bushels in the US.
Iowa is being most affected by the current weather.

Drier regions of the US may very well make up the difference- for example NC had 121 million bushels, PA had 122 MM, and Tennessee 125 MM.

Lot’s of states grow corn— would check each state’s predictions under cultivation currently. There is also drought. Solar minimums in history- have produced major famine.


56 posted on 05/25/2019 9:53:15 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: Equine1952

I can taste the difference between corn fed beef and grain fed. Grain is better.


57 posted on 05/25/2019 9:54:12 PM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: Steve Van Doorn

Take that back... Cole The Cornstar haven’t planet all their fields as of today.


58 posted on 05/25/2019 10:00:16 PM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: Windflier

Can’t kill babies all day long and give the Lord of Heaven the finger and not expect...


59 posted on 05/25/2019 10:15:17 PM PDT by Dogbert41 (When the strong man, fully armed, guards his own dwelling, his goods are safe. -Luke 11:21)
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To: Windflier
A great deal of carry over stock was also destroyed in the Nebraska flooding.

Welcome to the Eddy Minimum.
60 posted on 05/25/2019 10:17:01 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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