Fall crops seeding looking good in Mo river bottom

Ok, crazy thought here. With rise in popularity of fall cover crop and percieved expense of said crop, perhaps this is a cheaper alternative?

DougG wrote: Just came thru the Mo River bottom near Hermann and dang , nice stand of soybeans in every field the combines ran thru - corn was hard to see but seen a pretty good stand there too; are newer combines really that hard to set up - RIGHT-?

Will say this ONE MORE TIME.  This spring we had creek born flooding along these fields, Corn was drowned, so too beans but not total fields.  So the farmers went back in as dried down enough and spot replanted in the Dead Zones to recover what they could.  

Edited by DMiller - 15 Oct 2021 at 7:11pm

Rains flooded off a great deal of seedling initial growth around here, killed mass acreage that had to be replanted especially along the Loutre and Gasconade rivers and the tributaries to them.  I pass a great deal of these replants every day, watched the die off and replantings.   Sand Plant road runs alongside several owners fields, also run Hwy Y or J often in Montgomery county where those had rain borne flash floods, mud up killed much of early growths just not all.

Edited by DMiller - 16 Oct 2021 at 5:30pm

Test samples in McKittrick was over 18% last I heard.

Currently full load fields got cut some weeks ago, those with minimal downfall drowning.  The boss I work for lost close to a third of his crop to lowland flash flood, chose not to replant so what has harvested came in around 40b/a, losses will be attached to that where be lucky to break 26.  

Seems MO River or its tributaries have always been a gamble!!
Some farms around here luck out often, levies in right spots at right height and marvelous yields, others too close to poorly levied tributaries that on very hard and quite frequent rains get flash flooded.

Crop insurance would help if would pay partial loss hits as this year but doesn’t so are out fuel, tractor hours, seed purchase and re-fertilizing costs. Our renter had only applied his anhydrous as the first of five waves of these rain floods happened, had to reapply twice after initial where was actually considering leaving those acres go on first hit. The fields he applied that on one of which is the photo I took, another is beyond the tree/creek line. The water in that photo was down to normal in three days and was only up from incessant rain run off where the MO was nowhere near to flood stage.

Have been offered similar policies to read by the renter and a associate retiree across the river, most of the Fine Print notes if make any level of harvest off the field then No Insurance payment forthcoming. The high dollar not worth the paper written on also denote that where regardless the money spent, unless can write off the entire field there is no insurance.

May just be what will underwrite here but nothing better here.

Edited by DMiller - 17 Oct 2021 at 11:57am

Has to be a regional issue, two farms up out of the flood plain yet have creeks that run thru them were damaged from torrential rains, one received a yield count of 45b/a on corn off a 250a field, NO Insurance payout as made a yield of ANY value against a flood clause.  Did not pay for fuel machine time or seed to plant the field, where that family is listing their place for sale.  The other made 12b/a on beans, similar conditions, rolling fields and considerable low spots but above the 'flood plain' were flash flood damaged, he did not take out 'Flood' clause on insurance, gets No qualification on recovery cost.  He is writing off the loss after test combining 50 of 350 acres, said may set his cattle to the field or offer to his neighbors to feed theirs on.

I drove auger tractor from renters to my place by cutting thru a farm owned by my cousin. Their renters have a brand new Big Green, the ground is near solid green w/ 1 - 2" tall soybeans. They always get geese feeding after combining but we don't.