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To: Farmer Dean
What is your take on this report? Is flood/weather damage not as bad as we suspected?
3 posted on 07/19/2008 1:26:54 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (kim jong-il, chia head, ppogri, In Grim Reaper we trust)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Central Wisconsin had major flooding. I can only imagine areas along the Mississippi were worse. Some fields still covered. Also, I had heard from a friend, from a farm family, that some farmers probably would not replant since they had crop insurance to cover any loses. Dont know much about it, but it doesnt sound good.


10 posted on 07/19/2008 7:53:51 AM PDT by mouse1 ("whitey")
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Around here the crops range from very good to miserable depending on the planting date and weather.About half of the corn in our immediate area is water damaged enough that I’m not sure it will make a crop.We just finished our wheat harvest here and only averaged 43.6 bushels per acre-had a lot of kill spots from flooding.The last quote that I heard from Iowa was a 9 percent loss of acreage for corn due to flooding.The USDA supply and demand report for July shows the same expected acres harvested on corn as the June report.Makes me question the validity of the July report.


15 posted on 07/20/2008 12:17:31 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (168 grains of instant conflict resolution)
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