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NWTN | NWTN stinks too. Early planted beans(which I have none of..thanks slugs!) Looked 60+. Flash drought @ R4, gonna hurt em. For those of you not from here, we don't have deep soil. We have at most 4" on the hills ontop of a fragipan, and most bottoms have 6" than a claypan. One of my claypan bottoms leaches water up! Most beans are June beans (mine all are). Crazy wet June/Early July. I have one bottom on 15" rows that still has not cannopied! My beans are short, and about R2. They need a rain, sidehills have been turning silver, stuff next to trees is about dead. I have a bad case of backyarditis, but I think beans move up significantly after harvest. I feel the same about corn. It was SO WET everywhere. The only reason mine looked good into June/July was an app of 160N and 24S 1st week of June (I'd already put down 120N and 24S at planting, but rain for 40 days and 40 nights took that out!). I noticed ALOT of timely planted corn in my area died top-down, last time I had that, it wasn't good. Mine I think will be ok, 4"-5" watered on during mini flash droughts makes all the difference. Crops looked so bad, I didn't even bother selling anything. My luck I'll sell what I have for a lower price, but I feel there will be a day of reckoning on this crop. I'm going to survive into next year, so I will be ok. I'll sell what crop I grow as I need the cash, and borrow if I need it to put in next years crop. Hope everyone else expecting a bad crop comes out on the right side of this. I'm fortunate enough to have a day job to pay most of our families bills. I envy those of you who farm full time for a living, but I don't envy the additional stresses that causes you.
Edited by milbrathb 8/15/2024 09:24
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Indiana needs a good shot of rain
