How're your crops?

[twoton]

With all this crazy weather we all have been having I been wondering how crops are doing in your areas. Dairy is the primary farming that’s done around here, which is the Westport/Dartmouth, Massachusetts area, so we make hay-lage and corn silage. In general, hay production was down this year about 30% due to little to no rain. Chopping corn started early this year as the crops were just drying up in the fields. Some guys have small beef cattle herds but feed is getting to expensive and in most cases just impossible to come by. Typical farming. I still have a 45 record that my uncle from Irving, Illinois gave me when I was about 7 that was put out by International with a song called The Great American Farmer, “You’ll see him at church on Sunday morning, or sitting at his kitchen table, watching as the hail strips the stalks, the night before he was to reap the harvest of his dreams”.

[olds45512]

We've had way too much rain here, I planted a garden and the only thing that grew was one watermelon.

[ol'George]

I've heard it said:
"I've had 2 good years in farming, back in '28 and next year"

We've been blessed with good moisture @ the right time, but spring was wet, so a lot of low areas in the fields are growing nothing, or weeds.
Very uneven emergence, and wheat harvest was 2 weeks late due to the cool/wet spring.
We have started harvest in these parts with early planted beans being run as well as corn.
I'm hoping to run my beans this week, been holding off a bit as I have some late emerged plants in the wet areas that are green.
Hay was difficult to cut/bale because of the regular rains, you just couldn't get 3-4 drying days in a row.
Prices are a far cry from what they were just a few years ago.
Farming is the only business where a producer says
" what will you give me for my product" ?
Yet the grocer sets his price, take it or leave it.

[jimbob200521]

They aren't doing that horrible here. There are times we could have used less rain, and times we could have used more. But overall, not a bad year. Corn seems to be around 28% or so. However, the last storm we had come through a few weeks ago laid some of the corn down so that's a bummer.

[johns cubs]

Twoton, I am in the Binghamton NY. area and we have the same situation here! I am actually 20 miles north and all the corn around me is done! We are prob about the same 30% or more, less hay. I only had to mow my grass about half dozen times all summer! We usually grow so many summer squash, cucs, tomaters, onions and beans that we give alot to our neighbors but this year i found my self buying squash on a couple different occasions.
But now they say its gonna rain for a week and a half! I hope it stays slow and steady so the ground can suck it in! I live on the tiaghnioga river just below the Whitney Point resevoir and couldnt take kids fishing like usual. Every time we would wonder down there all we seen were rocks! And millions of craw fish shells!! Seagulls and baldeagles ate good this summer!

[Terry C]

Will be a bumper year here. Should be really good.

[Shotgun Wedding]

Up here in south western Ontario, we had an excellent year for the garden. Rained when we needed it, lots of heat and sun.

Tomatoes were best in many years. I grow 3 different heritage breeds, all did well. Late blight was kept down with Daconil which worked great
Corn was spectacular. Grew a new variety of sweet corn, Sc1336 and I will never look back. Sweetest corn I've had, large window for picking and good pollination.
Potatoes, beans, beets really good
Bumper year for Cucumbers.
Melons not ripe yet, kinda late, as are squash
Garlic was awesome, as were onions. 128 huge garlic.
Everything else was pretty good too.

I believe weather was conducive as was the alpaca manure I spread on last year and worked in with my cub 400 tiller.

[john hall]

I only farm part-time, just the "homeplace". The only thing I have in the field now is 13 acres of corn. Mine was planted a little late, still some areas of green in 2 fields. We've had 5 inches of rain in the past few days with much more predicted Fri and Sat due to the storm in the Atlantic. Corn looks great but I am afraid it may try to start sprouting in the shuck before I can get it out of the field. We won't even discuss what wind will do to it.

[64fleetside]

All I have is a garden, plowed, tilled, and cultivated with cadets. My corn did nothing again this year, spring was simply too wet(again). However, cabbage and cauliflower did excellent, tomatoes are few, carrots did well, squash bugs got my sqaush early but still had a pretty good crop, made squash casserole 3-4 times.
Got 18 green cabbage, 9 red cabbage, 4 hills of squash, and 1 row carrots and 9 Brussells sprouts plants growing now, all doing really well. Pepper plants still producing red and orane bells, and one jalapeno plant.
Maybe 5 tomato plants are still alive, and producing a handful of cherry or grape or Romas a day. I have fertilized them and have plenty of new growth and green maters.
As for the state's rice crop, it is said to be down from last year.

[rocker582special]

We started running beans here in Ohio. Tested very well, so should be a good yield this year.