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North East IL | I hope its a good crop for you guys up there in MN because you have had a tough couple of years. Sounds like its going to be pretty awesome. But heres the reasons that MN and IA probably wont get to what IL had in 2014.
in 14 IL had:
near perfect planting conditions. Was the last week of april, first of may for corn, so wasn't late
no frosts and it came out of the ground perfectly (unlike up north this year) and came out flying
It warmed up nice, but didn't get hot.
We had a couple big rains early, but we were able to replant the ponds, which helped some.
We had perfect rains from June throughout. and I mean perfect. Inch a week in june, caught some big rains in july for the corn, good rains for beans in august
Good sun, good warmth but not hot.
Most had plenty of nitrogen on. The soil gave us a bunch of N too.
There were still areas that weren't that great, but no crop failures. I think recently that its on traders and analysts minds that if IL can do it, surely everyone else can. 14 was a year for weather that ive never seen before, across so much of the state. The boys on the tougher dirt in southern IL had never seen corn like that. Nor here either. From what Ive heard here, it got a tad dry the last couple weeks out there, there was a lot of corn that got touched by frost, etc. | |
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PFT Minnesota
