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Colby, Kansas | At home (Lebanon, NE), only a few hundred acres of corn out, all sorghum still in the field. Going to punt on several hundred acres of continuous and double-crop (back on cornstalks) wheat, its just too late even if we could drill today, and the reality is it will be a while before fieldwork starts again.
At Tribune we are 65% done on corn (only because we got it out to a feedlot as high moisture), very little progress being made here, In this area almost all sorghum left, and probably 70% of the dryland/irrigated corn is left. The elevators are so full there is no room to move grain around for drying, so they are not accepting any corn above 15.5 or sorghum above 14. At work we had to give some corn away to a local ethanol plant just to get it out of the field (I know giving corn away sounds crazy but having numbers in a notebook is by far more valuable to us than the corn itself in terms of our cost of production). Was down at Johnson (60 mi south) working on plots Monday, harvest was just getting rolling good there. Corn yields here in the Tribune area will range from 5 to 120. The Johnson area caught some good rains late, a lot of 100 bu + corn and sorghum there to be harvested yet. Here at Tribune I bet it will be mid next week before we turn a wheel again.
Lucas
Edited by LHaag 10/22/2009 14:33
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