100%
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 think ya’ll need to spend a few days on a farm and see if you can figure out how to do just that.
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
Is there a market play here, or are those of us on the outside too late (as usual)
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.
Why do you say that?
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.
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
100%
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?
Aw, shucks. We just might have to use regular gas without ethanol for a while.
Then tarrifs on exports to China won’t matter.
Ha! That'd be appropriate, but the impending minimum already has a name; the Eddy Minimum.
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
“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 ...
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.
I can taste the difference between corn fed beef and grain fed. Grain is better.
Take that back... Cole The Cornstar haven’t planet all their fields as of today.
Can’t kill babies all day long and give the Lord of Heaven the finger and not expect...
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.