Sept 1st USDA report

Massey farmer · Sep 13, 2013

Usda report for current crop conditions as of sept 1st are out. New u.s. crop record is predicted. Corn yields are predicted up 32% above 2012. Iowa and Illinois are expected to be well above last year. Only 3 states, California, minnesota and North Dakota, are predicted down. http://www.dairyherd.com/e-newsletters/dairy-daily/Corn-production-forecast-at-record-138-billion-223482521.html

Mark-Ia · Sep 13, 2013

Must not have looked at the corn crop in Hamilton County Iowa. A friend of mine had a contract to fill, the corn stalk is dead,ears are hanging, the corn was 24% moisture. Combine yield monitor showed 50-83 bushels dry. And the monitor has been calibrated.

JD Seller · Sep 13, 2013

Well Mark that county may not have much corn but mine is looks like it would be well above 200 BPA. So it is the average across the whole country.

I have driven around a lot this summer. There are a lot more good crops than bad. There also are some GREAT crops too. Then you throw in the fact that the planted acres are way up and you have a big corn crop.

The fellows that are crying it is all wrong and we will have high prices again this fall, are deluding themselves. The Bushels are here as a total. They maybe in different areas than normal but there is going to be a lot of corn.

RayP(MI) · Sep 13, 2013

Lot of Michigan corn (at least around here,) looks pretty shabby. Don't expect any record yields on much of anything - record lows maybe. Been way too dry.

oldtanker · Sep 13, 2013

(quoted from post at 10:57:10 09/13/13) Well Mark that county may not have much corn but mine is looks like it would be well above 200 BPA. So it is the average across the whole country.

I have driven around a lot this summer. There are a lot more good crops than bad. There also are some GREAT crops too. Then you throw in the fact that the planted acres are way up and you have a big corn crop.

The fellows that are crying it is all wrong and we will have high prices again this fall, are deluding themselves. The Bushels are here as a total. They maybe in different areas than normal but there is going to be a lot of corn.

Gotta agree with JD on this one. Use to be that you never saw much corn in ND or the Red River valley area of west MN but back in the 90's corn was high one year. The next year BTO's who had always planted Beans and wheat invested millions in corn equipment. They have been planting corn ever sense. Well basically the same thing happened this spring, guys that never planted corn, BTO's looking for bigger margins and everyone else decided that they were going to make it big on corn. This is what happens when people chase last years prices.

Rick

Spook · Sep 13, 2013

We have had fields put into crops that were left to grow weeds for 30 years, little 5 and 10 acre spots planted, plus old sod farms, a couple of palces that were supposed to be subdivisions. The real surprise was a golf course that was only about 10 years old, it's in corn now.

lee little · Sep 13, 2013

Best use I ever heard of for a golf course!

T in NE · Sep 15, 2013

There's a country club in Titusville, PA, that's being farmed now, too.

Not sure how Nebraska is going to have a record crop, either.

Pair-a-dice farm · Sep 15, 2013

The corn harvest in my county is probably 75% done. I haven't heard any yields but it usually runs around 175bpa and this was a very good year. There has been a lot of rice and cotton ground planted in corn the last few years.

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