2026 crop year

[swiacy]

Crop scout/agronomist after inspection recommended complete field replant of all April planted corn. Sophomore grandson started field cultivation last night. Two weeks of wet & cold post planting was culprit.

 

[swiacy]

If memory serves me correctly, for us the two best planting days in '93 were Mother's day and Memorial day, and neither were ideal. I recall planting through the night on one farm (took the halogen fog lights off my pickup and mounted them on the front weights of the planter tractor to illuminate the marker track). At one point I was seeing "white spots" ahead which I assumed was paper/plastic bags? blown in from the adjoining residential area only to find they were wet spots/small puddles where the ground was so compacted from previous rains the water hadn't soaked away although the field as a whole was relatively dry enough to plant--they appeared as reflections from the lights.
Looking back, it seems there is often that one day each year that we shouldn't have pushed it and waited another day to plant but we never realize it in real time.
Hope everybody can take some time to spend with mom (whether yours or your kids') tomorrow cause if things don't go as planned you may need them more than a few more hours of field work

‘93 was a dandy. Only year I took prevent plant option on 300 acres of cornstalks. Ended up baling 1,000 excellent big bales of foxtail which the cows preferred over good alfalfa.

 

[FLYINGCYCLONE]

Finished beans today. Now a rain would be good. I have not had any rain to report to the First Trials guys who have plots here. Nothing in 3 plus weeks. So, we can hang clothes on the clothes line, wash cars, pickups, tractors, the planter, the field cultivator. Leave windows open. I can’t cut hay down because I don’t have any.

 

[BCClone]

Finished beans today. Now a rain would be good. I have not had any rain to report to the First Trials guys who have plots here. Nothing in 3 plus weeks. So, we can hang clothes on the clothes line, wash cars, pickups, tractors, the planter, the field cultivator. Leave windows open. I can’t cut hay down because I don’t have any.

I finished today also. Had a few sprinkles yesterday. Still some moisture out there, a couple low spots with standing water but topsoil is pretty dry.

 

[iowastatefan1929]

Please tell me this is a June monsoon year. With all the switch to beans I wonder the ramifications.

 

[BCClone]

Please tell me this is a June monsoon year. With all the switch to beans I wonder the ramifications.

Is there a switch to beans somewhere? My area is heavy corn.

 

[iowastatefan1929]

Is there a switch to beans somewhere? My area is heavy corn.

I thought there was due to higher fertilizer costs.

 

[BCClone]

I thought there was due to higher fertilizer costs.

That is recent. Most people I know either have it spread or everything locked in no later than January.

 

[NWICY]

Welp it's in the ground, now time to hope mother nature and God are kind to us this yr. Stay safe everyone.

 

[dafarmer]

Done, first corn up and beans need rain.

 

[Hoggins]

Also finished corn/soy plots yesterday. 23 plots in 14 days, worked 10 days straight.

 

[Stevetasker]

Beans we planted April 19 had a pounding .4” & hail a couple days after planting. Need a rain to soften the heavy crust. Been very dry here, looks like that could start to change a week from now.

 

[WISCY1895]

We have had a wet spring in Wisconsin but I wouldn’t mind getting a nice shower this week. Got a lot of herbicide sitting out there

 

[Iastfan112]

We have had a wet spring in Wisconsin but I wouldn’t mind getting a nice shower this week. Got a lot of herbicide sitting out there

Wishing we'd incorporated our soybean pre. Missed our rain chances think it's mostly going to have been a waste.

 

[NWICY]

Posted a summary of Alan Guebert's column May 8th Farm news in the cave for discussion. Didn't want to get this thread shut down or caved. Please take a look and give thoughts or not.

 

[Kinch]

One of the big changes that I have noticed are the number of large seed carts that I don’t remember seeing a couple of years ago. Used to have pickups hauling sacks of seed. Changed overnight. Maybe I wasn’t paying attention last year.

 

[JEFF420]

One of the big changes that I have noticed are the number of large seed carts that I don’t remember seeing a couple of years ago. Used to have pickups hauling sacks of seed. Changed overnight. Maybe I wasn’t paying attention last year.

farmers getting older. those bags are heavy

 

[WISCY1895]

farmers getting older. those bags are heavy

I had a customer put in a request all of his corn bags this year needed to less than 55 pounds because he doesn’t want to work with heavy seed bags

 

[Iastfan112]

I had a customer put in a request all of his corn bags this year needed to less than 55 pounds because he doesn’t want to work with heavy seed bags

We still use bags, for corn, despite having a bulk tank planter. Like the ability to split varieties and we like to hedge our bets and plant more varieties overall than I suspect most operations our size do.

Its the minor conundrum for us though. Those +60 lbs large rounds bags tend to dial in singulation really nice, just a bit of a bear to load.

 

[cowboycurtis]

We still use bags, for corn, despite having a bulk tank planter. Like the ability to split varieties and we like to hedge our bets and plant more varieties overall than I suspect most operations our size do.

Its the minor conundrum for us though. Those +60 lbs large rounds bags tend to dial in singulation really nice, just a bit of a bear to load.

I have a seed business and have several customers that if I try to give them some bags they won’t touch it. All their seed has to come in bulk. And I wouldn’t consider them large farmers.

I have customers that figure out every field to the .1 of a unit and other customers that tell me to put their 500 unit order together and they have no plan where it’s going. They just pick up and plant wherever it’s fit.