2025 field work
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Between the weather and how the corn generally looks it feels like we should be out there harvesting. 26%-28% corn says differently of course.
I just drove from Michigan to Montana and back to Michigan. I saw 1 combine in the field just west of Lincoln, NE picking corn. Lots in North Dakota and Montana on wheat. Was cool. Will do again
26% corn? I would probably be picking that up stand ability could be an issue this year.
26% was a hand shelled sample, hence the range. I've always heard add 2% to that to be safe.
Stalk quality in that corn doesn't seem to be a problem for the ones I pushed on and given we have a pretty limited dryer capacity that's run on propane outside a significant problem I don't see any coming out until 20% or so.
Our home farm plot that didn't get fungicide and got hammered with southern rust is coming out on Tuesday we decided today. Not much else is close.
Math I’ve done was that I made money taking out at 25 and drying instead of letting it get down to 18 or so.
Drying 25% corn when it's 70 degrees makes me more money than trying to dry 20% at 50 degrees and better yet trying to pick down corn at 13% LOL seems those are my only 3 options anymore
Back in the day when I was farming, and without any facts to back me, I adopted the same mindset. I always felt more comfortable drying 25% corn in 60 or 70° weather than lower moisture corn in 40° weather. I had a seed business so got exposed to a lot of test plot data and “ fact checked” the idea that drying wet corn had a yield advantage to letting it dry in the field.
Could very well be seed corn from the AgReliant (now GDM I guess) west of Ogden. I'm sure they're using defol but seed corn facilities generally raise maturities outside of what would be considered "normal" for the area as well.
Seed corn harvest is underway almost everywhere but they harvest upwards of 40% moisture.
Yeah usually phantom yield loss here comes from it going from 18% down to 13% in what seems like a day and then it's all fun and games to keep it from buttshelling like a MF
Looking at the NWS forecast I would imagine there will be a lot of drying happening in the field. Warming up to the upper 80s to low 90s by mid to late week with virtually no precip chances (at least in East Central Iowa).
Talked to a guy from the Corwith area this morning and he said he had corn the rust was hard on. He would be combining within a week.
Driving down to @NWICY fields last week, there are some a few miles north of Holmes that have looked ready for 2 weeks.
