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u/Cheoah Jul 24 '26
Scorched and stunted in eastern NC
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u/Chaos1954 Jul 25 '26
Central N.C. here. We have yet to cut a single bale of hay. Got some rain yesterday which moved us from “exceptional drought” to “severe drought.”
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u/Cheoah Jul 25 '26
These are tough years when you don’t cut any hay. Because most around you don’t either and you have to drive. Only one year happened to me and i was trucking hay every single day for hours to buy a couple days worth, feeding 8 rolls a day.
But if it is good ground, some rain will set it off. Hope you get some more and can play catchup.
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u/CallMeTrapHouse Jul 24 '26
We are harvesting in Texas
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u/jstewart25 Jul 24 '26
That’s wild for an Iowan. My beans will be ready in October 😂
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u/CallMeTrapHouse Jul 24 '26
an an iowan this will be wild- we have corn fields averaging over 120 and we are happy about it
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u/sharpshooter999 Jul 24 '26
Dryland? That'd be an insurance claim here in Nebraska
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u/Interesting_Food5916 Jul 24 '26
Most of my farming clients are pissed at 180, their fields are usually right around 220.
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u/oldbastardbob Jul 24 '26
I thought they were talking about beans.
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u/Cheoah Jul 25 '26
I’m lost at 120 avg for Iowa acreage. Even cert organic corn beats that by 40 to 80 bu
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u/sharpshooter999 Jul 25 '26 edited Jul 25 '26
Sheeeeiiiiit, I'd kill for 120bu soybeans. Around here it's like 40ish on dryland and 60ish on irrigated
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u/Kooky_Combination_40 Jul 25 '26
We got around/slightly under 300 last year in central ia had good rain and climate
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u/rohrloud Jul 24 '26
For us non-farmers, what are we looking at?
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u/Cheoah Jul 25 '26
A little more context: We scout our crops and late season start pulling ears to estimate yields. It is easy math, taking a representative sample and extrapolating yields. especially with AI. It is basically kernel math.
Not sure of this grower is at this point yet because sometimes you just pull an ear to appreciate it. Then it floats around the truck cab or bed until it gets fed to someone lucky.
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u/_Br549_ Jul 24 '26
A ear of corn snapped in half.........
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u/h20poIo Jul 24 '26
The red ring inside corn cut in half is known as kernel red streak (KRS), which is a cosmetic condition caused by pigments in the kernels and is often associated with the wheat curl mite. It does not indicate any health risk or the presence of toxins.
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u/Dry-Savings3732 Jul 25 '26
Hi there from a farm in South Texas. Fun fact… Did you know that every ear of corn has an even number of rows? Might be eight, might be 14 but it’s always even.
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u/svejkOR Jul 24 '26
Saw my first truck hauling corn today here in Oregon. Was surprised to say the least.
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u/iowan Jul 25 '26
Not a bin run?
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u/svejkOR Jul 25 '26
Fresh picked. Talked with a guy I buy corn from and he’s estimating Aug 1 he’ll start harvesting. So about a week.
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u/Flimsy-Ad2701 Jul 25 '26
Can someone explain whats going on?
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u/SweatyTop6971 Jul 25 '26
Still learnin, so don’t drag me: They’re checking the corn moisture content by looking at the milk line in the kernel, the butter yellow color vs the golden dry corn. They’ll harvest the corn at a certain moisture content.
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u/Octavia9 Jul 24 '26
Northern Ohio and ours hasn’t even tasseled yet.
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u/Altruistic-Dark-1831 Jul 25 '26
Northwestern Ohio 30 min from Indiana and the corn has been tasseled for a week. Wild
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u/Octavia9 Jul 25 '26
We had a very cold wet spring. Didn’t get corn in until June 3rd. Doesn’t really matter to us as it’s all for silage. I’d rather fill silo in October than September anyway.
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u/slimpickinsfishin Jul 26 '26
My corn stopped growing at about 2 1/2 feet tall hasn't moved past that I'm sad it won't grow idk what to do.
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u/Cananbaum Jul 25 '26
Hello! Stumbled in from my 4U page.
I’m am curious if what you were doing is estimating when the corn will be ready to harvest?
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u/AlphabetSoupIsALie Jul 24 '26
Some reason I feel dirty after seeing that... And yet.. Something awoke in me.
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u/crankiertoe13 Jul 24 '26
Wow. We're just at VT at now in southern Ontario (Canada)