2011 farming progress?

[dale a. Brandt]

Well, mothers day has come and gone and here near st. louis we have a total of 3 days out in the field so far. i have been doing well until now where my sleep cycles have been comprimised. the only positive thing is the wheat looks good.. even though we had the crop dusters out last week. anybody else out there having as many challenges?

 

dale

[Josh Deschryver]

I'm in Southwestern Ontario, Canada and we are WET!!! Rains have been very spotty this spring but overall there is still a lot of corn to go into the ground. Most growers on sand have most of their corn planted but the clay has not been touched yet. We've had 1.75" of rain this weekend and more is in the forecast so this week is pretty much a write-off. This year patience really is a virtue.

[dale a. Brandt]

i just hooked up to the anhydrous applicator today for the first time this year... i may be able to finally go tommorrow... and i'm not talking sidedressing.

Dale

[ROD TANGEMAN (Tangeman Farms)]

we are all finished planting corn and it is all up and going 3-4 leaf stage and soybeans are all planted and starting to emerge

[K2]

We finished corn on Friday.   All of the corn is over gravel this year.  (lucky)   Also got 20% of the beans before the rains came Sunday.  Most have planted less than 10% of anything.   I ran from Dayton Ohio to Oxford on Tuesday and not a field had been touched.  I think there will be a lot of prevented plant given the payout on corn.  June 5th is not far away.

[josh]

well last week was our first week to do any tillage or planting we were able to plant 70ac of corn and got 70ac of beans in been to wet to spray our wheat weeds are getting high in it most wheat crop is doing well with one hilly field yellow in spots due to all this rain we have another 250ac yet to plant with first cutting hay waist high its gona be a rush to plant take the duals off the tractors and get the hay in this time last year we were done planting and had started making hay and was done with first crop by memorial day what a year this has been thank goodness the milk check is stayin steady

[Morgan McNeal]

We have around 40 acres of beans to go, should finish that up today, then start drilling the neighbors beans, and then back to drilling CRP ground. Without hardly no rain this spring, not sure how much hay were going to have to cut, brome dosn't even want to grow in these conditions.

[Richard Schmunk]

Wish I had more to do.  Working in the shop is getting old.  All I do in the shop is end up spending money.  We got more rain today.  This makes close to 4 inches in a week and a half.  Hope that we don't lose crops to too much moisture. At least everything of mine is in the ground, the neighbors still have 200 acres of corn and I haven't seen a single pinto put in the ground yet.

[dale a. Brandt]

well, i finally got out in the field last week.  and planted my first corn yesterday....and the 5 day forecast again is rain.

 

Dale

[Nick]

Still no moisture here in SW Ks. Guys got done with Irrigated corn a few weeks ago already, first corn about 10-12 inches high. Beans just starting to row. Wheat not going to be much around here, most people hoping for rain to no-till some Milo into the wheat ground.

[Daric Preston]

We haven't done a thing but spary 60 acres of bean ground.  Way too wet in Ohio.  Few guys mudded in some corn, we'll see.   I hear alot of guys will be abandoning corn acres as it's supposed to rain all this week yet.  I planted winter wheat and the rest of my acres are going to beans, thank god, no corn.  It's miserable. 

[josh]

well we have everything but 14ac of beans planted that goes to beans 90 ac of corn left to plant im in central ohio

[Jed Olbertson]

Southeast SD-thanks to some planter issues and the tough weather, we just finished corn yesterday. Left about 25 acres of prevent plant, so it'll be a good time to get ditches cleaned out and drainage tile installed this summer on that ground. Now it's time to start fighting bean planting, if the rain misses us today, and get the 8 RN mounted planter to start replanting spots. 80 inches of rain here since June 1, 2009, so basically 3 years moisture in 2 years...