I don’t have time to explain it.. gotta roll.

crib notes.. Kansas busted record dryland corn yields last year.. the mystery USDA finds extra corn.. as fields which., weren’t planted.. or failed in 2022.. busted 150 bushels or more last year.

For 2026 Kansas was gonna plant 7.1 million acres to Corn.. more than we planted to wheat.. and ordered inputs.

theres 3 acres of “dryland” corn for every irrigated acre.. or., “that was the plan.." an extra 2 million acres in the past couple of years..

enter the drought.

personally I’ve got seed sitting in dry soil.. unable to even sprout.. for the past three weeks.. and counting..

What is going to happen to all the inputs.. seed, fertilizer, etc.. booked for these acres?  The majority of dryland seed here remains in the bag.

I guess we can sell our fertilizer on the open market.. wait a year.. maybe it will rain by then..

later. 


https://www.ksnt.com/news/kansas/kansas-farmers-projected-to-plant-more-acres-of-soybeans-and-corn-in-2026-usda/

TOPEKA (KSNT) – The U.S. Department of Agriculture released a new report Tuesday indicating that Kansas is projected to plant more soybeans and corn in 2026.

The USDA released a new Prospective Plantings Report on March 31 reporting the Sunflower State is projected to plant 250,000 more acres of corn and 300,000 more acres of soybeans in 2026, as the department indicates by reports from farmers.

Kansas in 2025 had 6.85 million acres of corn planted and is projected to go up to 7.1 million acres this year. For soybeans, Kansas had 4.1 million acres of soybeans planted as of 2025 and is projected to increase to 4.4 million acres planted this crop year. However, if soybean acreage projections are reached this year, it would bring the acreage back up to numbers that it had lost the previous year, as Kansas planted 4.5 million acres of soybeans in 2024.