West Ky | vailcat - 7/19/2012 20:27 It seems up here in NCND we hardly ever get our late July early august rains yet we come out at 30-35 bushels. Just curious if because you guys typically don't go thru these dry spells you can be more afraid than us here who are more prone to them? Not knocking anyone just wondering. I do understand it has been very hot so that is an added variable. We have had 1.0 of rain since June 9th now and the beans are not wilting and corn is not rolling. That being said if we were to score an inch or something in one of these popup storms I think without excessive heat we could pencil in 32-36 bushels on beans and 100-110 on our corn. I would be doing backflips at that rate given everyone is in a drought and we could pull off normal yields. What do your beans look like? They over a foot tall or are they wilting bad? Dying or looking green still? We are still green, upright and around mid thigh high setting pods and flowering hard even though we have been in 90s all week with .3 for rain in the last 10 days and as I said 1.0 since June 9th. ' Good luck! PS I have 13bpa sold and stopped selling until it rains SOMEWHERE!
In '07 we had a similiar year here but it occurred later in July and August for the extreme heat but it was dry like this year and we averaged 5 bu an acre over the whole crop. Last year it was dry while the full season beans were filling out and they averaged 17 bu and the double crop beans got some good rains in September and they averaged 53.
So I have no idea what to contract, we might not have a single bu to sell or we could get some rain and make 60. Today we are sold in beans as though we are going to average 0 just like corn. We might not have any corn to sell if it has aflatoxin in it. Otherwise we might average 20 bu corn if were lucky. 1/3 of our crop will be 0 as you could see in my pics I posted last night on here. Our other corn looks worse as far as stalk quality but it has tiny nubbins for ears with tiny grains on em. |