Corn...

[growalot]

So there's a post on how to how corn fields...and ours were started to be chopped here...BTW I went up out of curiosity and walked a row just to see what they left...even with blow over from a full truck in front of the house...one to two kernels every few feet and6 " of stalk...and half that was buried by the weight of the 10 wheelers filled with corn....

Any whoooo. Whats up in your areas is corn getting chopped?

 

Oh and when done we will be able to count on 4 or so inches of liquid manure being sprayed....200 acres of what use to be wild life food/hunting grounds for raptors before the corn growing reduce to a barren shite pile...hhmmm still better than housing

Edited September 18, 2015 by growalot

[landtracdeerhunter]

It's late. Chopping started a few weeks ago. Bet the grain farmers, yet again will be chewing at the bit with 350 corn prices.

The way some of the fields look around here, yields will be down.

 

[Doc]

A quick look around the area shows that the flooding and constant rains earlier in the year really messed up a lot of the corn crop. It could be that farmers have decided that all a lot of this year's crop is good for is silage.

[nyantler]

The crops near us did pretty well, but much of it is grown on high and dry land. Our leased property corn has always been chopped during the first few weeks of the bow season... I think it looks like the same will happen this year.

[growalot]

This corn wasn't planted until memorial day weekend...that seems to be his time line for this area,,,he plants all over the place and several different towns...so this is a real early chopping for here...They stopped last night so much of the feild off our porch still stands...his yield may have been more than expected for his silage pile is high and they had the bulldozer on top of it this morning trying to push it higher and level it out.  but the new concrete pad he put in last year for this new one is the size of an office building  that's a lot of feed 2 stories high.

[growalot]

Dang they must have sharpened the blades on the machine over night...they came back and zipped the fields like they were cutting butter...pretty much nothing left but stubs and dirt...Geez I hope he waits until there is a good north west wind and cool weather before spraying the shite,,,the stench is horrible for 2 wks and rains just reconstitutes  it!...

 Even with that partial cutting the cams were busy last night...every body is looking for new hiding places

[dbHunterNY]

no corn... all soy beans this year for some reason.  thousands of acres worth of it in the area.

[growalot]

man they are cutting everything everywhere the truck traffic was wild today...I drove past the silage"mountain" this morning as the bulldozer crested the top pushing chopped corn in front of him...they had an even bigger piece of equipment there this afternoon. I'm thinking I wouldn't want that job...to close to the edge and that would be a heck of a 2 story roll straight onto concrete ....it really is amazing to see so much chopped up corn and all the assembly line truckes passing on the back roads...I actually wonder how those 10 wheel dump trucks over flowing with the chopped corn manage back road weight limits....

[G-Man]

I really hope the farmer that took over the fallow fields by me cuts his corn by mid October, combining not chopping, last year he didn't get it cut to last day of muzzleloader. . To.much moisture in the grain. Great seeing 30 plus deer in a cut field day after season....sigh.

Hoping for a hot dry first couple weeks of October so it black tips and dries. Tough to compete with 400 acres of well fertilized corn with 10 acres of corn

. Though mine will stand next may....

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