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DennisA (IL) 
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Posted: 23 May 2019 at 9:33pm |
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Fields are water soaked and not drying down. Rains every other day. It even rains when they call for sunny skies. How is a guy supposed to get corn in the ground?
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CTuckerNWIL
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Posted: 23 May 2019 at 9:52pm |
We had a 4 day window here, that let us get over half the neighbors corn in. It'll take another 3 or 4 days to finish corn and get beans in, IF it ever dries out enough to get back in the field. Everything we have left to do had ponds and wet spots before all this last weeks rain, so it might be mid June before it all dries out and is workable . I know there are others in worse shape. 
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steelwheelAcjim
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Posted: 23 May 2019 at 9:54pm |
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Preventative Planting Insurance. That's what the big boys are bragging about around my area.
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SteveM C/IL
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Posted: 23 May 2019 at 10:02pm |
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PP don't work so well when fertilizer is already there...
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TimCNY
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Posted: 23 May 2019 at 10:43pm |
How's a guy supposed to get his boots unstuck from his own backyard once he sinks in? Only half kidding... but at least, appropriately, they're Muck boots.
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cwhit
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Posted: 24 May 2019 at 5:20am |
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We got about 2 days of corn planting in around here. Looking at the extended forecast,I give it about a ZERO chance of coming out of the ground .
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randy
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Posted: 24 May 2019 at 6:06am |
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We had a couple days to plant depending where you were. Looks like were are all in the same boat.
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JPG AUSTRALIA
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Posted: 24 May 2019 at 6:09am |
Love some rain here,less than an inch total for this year. Alot of native vegetation dying which is getting depressing,dry sowing crop in the hope it will rain sometime soon,  [IMG]uploads/
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JPG AUSTRALIA
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Posted: 24 May 2019 at 6:10am |
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Sorry about pic size couldnt resize on my ipad
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im4racin
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Posted: 24 May 2019 at 7:16am |
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its finally raining here today. we too have had less than an inch all spring. we also missed out on most of the late season pretty too!
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Wayne180d
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Posted: 24 May 2019 at 7:45am |
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We have nothing in the ground the guy that I help but when we can roll we will be done in short order.
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SteveM C/IL
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Posted: 24 May 2019 at 9:28am |
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My neighbor whos 7yrs older told me that in 74 he was planting corn June 21 in insulated coveralls (no cab) because that was the first it was dry enough. Then he said we got a killing frost the first week of Sept. Nothing was mature.Yields were low and corn couldn't dry after frosting. Before September was over....rain set in. I just graduated HS and don't remember all that but do remember late planting season because I started working at local AC dealer. Point is ,we've been in the soup before.
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D17Milo
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Posted: 24 May 2019 at 9:41am |
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I just traveled through Illinois on I 74 on the18th and back through yesterday. There were a lot of places that were a lot wetter coming back than when I went down. You could tell some tractors had not moved at all. My wife's brother farms in west central Iowa and has very little planted.
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JC-WI
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Posted: 24 May 2019 at 10:13am |
A neighbor stopped yesterday and his first words were, 'Is it spring yet? we has 2 days of summer...' I replied back, "them two days that it got to seventy and the sunlight felt like it might have some heat in it?" He sits on lower ground yet and doubts he will get any of it planted this year. I suggest he might want to plant rice via airplane or just dam up the whole farm and plant cranberries. He laughed about the rice but didn't like the cranberry idea. I couldn't blame him either. I Just turned cows out on a hay field that has water standing in all the
low spots. Not enough heat and sunlight to make the grass jump up and grow... Didn't help having ice on the ground under the
snow all winter either.
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AC7060IL
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Posted: 24 May 2019 at 6:02pm |
This is a copy of the US precipitation map for the past week. The prior weeks showed similar rain totals in the northern Midwest. 
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DennisA (IL)
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Posted: 24 May 2019 at 6:20pm |
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We could get 2” yet tonight, yeah!
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ac hunter
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Posted: 24 May 2019 at 6:21pm |
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Hey JPG Australia. Sorry you have had it so dry, that's a bad situation too. Wish we could send you some of our excess water. That planting rig looks like it would cover a lot of ground quickly. I assume the tank behind the tractor is for fertilizer? then a grain drill but what is the implement behind that? It looks a lot wider than the planter if I understand what I am seeing. Your ground looks to be fairly flat. What is it that you are planting?
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JPG AUSTRALIA
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Posted: 24 May 2019 at 7:11pm |
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Ac hunter we are planting wheat,thats all i grow ,yep first tank has uan in it ,than the second thing is an air cart which blows the seed and granular fertilizer to the 50ft cultivator bar/ hoe drill at the back. If it wasnt for tungsten tipped knife points on the bar dry seeding wouldnt really be possible.
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bakwoodsfarm
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Posted: 24 May 2019 at 7:28pm |
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Wish we could get some, mid 90s all next week. the corn will be hurting but have everything planted. Could be worse
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victoryallis
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Posted: 25 May 2019 at 6:19am |
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Wet here in west Michigan also.
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festus51
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Posted: 25 May 2019 at 7:46pm |
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AC7060 in Ks here I dumped out 15" for the month of May. Your rainfall graph indicates my rain gauge is pretty accurate.
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Brian F(IL)
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Posted: 26 May 2019 at 10:36am |
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We've had 2" in the last three days.
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ac fleet
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Posted: 26 May 2019 at 11:22am |
We had 2" last night!-- The guy over on the next road south was planting at midnight until the storm hit. This morning all of the field ponds are full again, right over the planted areas. If crop dont get up before this crust gets set up this time, the corn will leaf out under ground and wont come up. Todays hybrids are not agressive like the ones from years ago.---Plant breeders only concentrate on 400 bu yield goals and ignore the fact that you gotta have an agressive plant or you wont have anything. One year we had late planting, and seed dealer talked dad into trading full season seed back in for short season kind!--BIG mistake, it only made 17 bu./ac. and was light and chaffy! This year your gonna see a lot of low test weight corn, possible high toxin content grain. The elevators love low test weight grain because they dock you for it but they blend it out and get no dock on their end. I wouldn't count on govt. payment's for non-planted acres this year either. --- Ya the mega guys will get all kinds of money but the smaller guys won't see a dime.
Just my observations from where I stand. --- sad times in America!
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Unit3
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Posted: 26 May 2019 at 12:52pm |
I got our corn in and started on a 130 acre bean field. 1st attempt, 80 acres and then lightening, 2nd, attempt 30 more acres. On the 3rd attempt with with 110 acres behind me, I made it almost half way across the field, almost. Had to get out the 2nd 8070 to pull the 1st 8070 out. Still don't have the field finished.
This is the toughest year I can ever remember. In 2013, we had 700 acres that we couldn't plant. Last year was not fun, but we did get planted. This year makes me feel awful. I can't get the beans planted all the while I know that others are really hurting on many fronts. Flooding from snow melt out West, relentless rains in the East, and tornado's in the South. Now the grain prices are starting upward. I feel like we are going to make a little off of others sufferings.
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AC720Man
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Posted: 26 May 2019 at 8:03pm |
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Brothers were able to finally make some hay this past week. Had 4 days of sun and wind. Rain for the past 3 days, just enough to ruin more hay production. Orchard grass is turning brown, 3 weeks overdue to be cut. This week has 2 days of rain. Seams like another repeat of last year. Not as bad as others on here but down right aggravating.
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