Corn production well off
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Topic: Corn production well off
Posted By: DMiller
Subject: Corn production well off
Date Posted: 30 Aug 2025 at 10:03am
Do not know of other areas but not seeing any reality of good in corn here. A few friends and contacts been pulling sample ears as stalks dry down, silks are mostly dried up, a few never pollinated and remain white with the stalk dead, shucked ears tell the true story.
For four counties around us ears are 1/2 -2/3 filled out, kernels are small and already deep dimpled, one sample tested at 27% moisture where estimations on fields that generated 210-240 b/a just a few years ago MIGHT make 150 this go, as well will be docked for small grain size and poor grade outs. Several are considering letting beef onto the fields as a feed out as will not regain the costs to harvest where insurance will not pay anything.
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Posted By: DougG
Date Posted: 30 Aug 2025 at 10:09am
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You know ,, I listen to the Big 550 in the morning and they have an hour segment of Ag news, the big Farm tour was a couple weeks ago and they reported Illinois corn was very disappointing, looked good on the outside but kinda alot like you described Dave,,
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Posted By: AC7060IL
Date Posted: 30 Aug 2025 at 11:22am
Our area observed 10.7” of rains in the month of July alone (July 6-20th) !!
What does that mean? If your corn pollinated towards the earlier timing (end of June & up til July 6th), it probably did ok & may exhibit good kernel development?
But if it pollinated during that heavy rainy period, lots of pollen grains could have been washed out of tassel &/or washed off ear silks, thus leading to No or very poor kernel development.
Corn tassels usually only shed pollen from 10~12am til 6pm? each day.
And good Viable pollen only lives about 12 hours? Also if your area experienced a drought prior to & during pollination, dry/hotter air temps could damage pollen production within the tassel, rendering it sterile? If so, any amount being shed is pointless.
To further complicate, ear silks are made up of 90% water. So any drought conditions could also limit silk growth.
IF,,, a field has no or reduced soil compaction that could enable good deep (5-8’?) corn root growth? Then, healthier plant’s roots may be tapped into lower ground water which may enable normal silk growth even during a drought?
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Posted By: Lars(wi)
Date Posted: 30 Aug 2025 at 12:57pm
Will be interested to follow along and see if the USDA prediction of 188.8 bu per acre(nationwide) is accurate.
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I tried to follow the science, but it was not there. I then followed the money, and that’s where I found the science.
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Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 30 Aug 2025 at 2:39pm
planted BEANS here this year... First time in about 8 years..
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Like them all, but love the "B"s.
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Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 30 Aug 2025 at 3:39pm
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Now the Beans here, standing Tall, nice bushiness, loads of Pods.
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Posted By: DougG
Date Posted: 30 Aug 2025 at 6:30pm
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Around here too , but the $$$$ are low,,,
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