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Corn - What are we going to do with it

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There are huge amounts of corn coming out of areas where little corn was grown before.

Our tenant is just finishing up cutting his corn. Elevators won't (can't) take it because their storage is full with a big wheat crop and corn is piled everywhere. Feedyards show no desire to buy it up and the ethanol plants are standing by. Looks like we won't have a market for corn for at least three or four months.

Our share of the corn grown on our place is stored in an abandoned elevator with little prospect of getting money from it this year.
 
Sounds like time to buy some feeders - - - We are almost done with harvest ( about 600 acres to go) but so far the elvators here are keeping up. We have about 70,000 bu in on farm storage and try to fill it last. It is mostly full.

Sonny boy was worried we might have contracted to much with the drought but so far our worst corn was 148 dry - - - most of the corn is coming out of the field under 18% moisture ( some as low as 13.5% ) and test weight is around 58# so while the hay and pastures suffered the row crops did very well - - - River bottoms 200 to 215 and over all soybeans were about 63 with a couple of fields in the high 38s-39s or they would have averaged better.
 
It sounds like your area did very well overall, George.

Here in mid-Western Ontario, we had a very poor soy/edible bean crop and a surprisingly big corn crop. Soy were a half a crop at 18 - 35 bu/ac.

But the corn was far beyond most expectations with yields from 100 on the poorer soils to a high of 200 on some low lands. Most of the moistures are around 17 - 21%, with a few reports of harvesting corn at 15%. That is unheard of for our part of the world!

And then there are the spots where the poor souls got no rain and have nothing, particularly in the Niagara region. Their stuff died in late July.

Hay is in really short supply in western Ontario, with anything decent bringing 10 cents/ lb. Not good for beef cow guys!
 
Haven't seen too much on the ground yet but it will come.. Folks are getting real nice yields this year, 250' bushels being pretty common and even some higher on the real good dryland and irrigated stuff.. Lowest I have heard was in the 180's for a whole field.. Lots of new storage going up all over the place but it won't be enough,w ith the cutting of hay, oat and bean acres around here the storage can't keep up since corn produces so much more per acre.
 
about 80 thousand on the ground locally already and I think the corn is only 3/4 out.

had a driver tell me the other day the ADM in Omaha had 50 thousand of soybeans on the ground and it has spoiled with all the rain! I bet that smells REAL nice.
 
Cattle market is a little softer this week......BUY....... There are some good calves at a fairly good deal....... If you can keep it dry and bug free I would keep it as I have a gut feeling corn will go up into next year....
Of course all advice is simply my opinion and subject to change..... :D :D
 
Well I could use a few semi loads were getting in two loads of screening's here at $98 a ton delivered wet cake is $40 per ton delivered.Hay is $40 to $100 per bale.Sweet corn silage is at $23 per ton delivered.All prices keep inching up a little each day.

I was baleing some hay/filler today it's pretty rank but the cows were eating on them as I baled, dirty buggers had to go get my quad and put them back in and rebale 3 bales they destroyed.My blood pressure was real high for a while.
 
I am going to bale up some milo stalks this fall. guys are paying out the nose for hay, so those stalk ought to be worth $60 ton or maybe more!

Denny, I would swap you a stock trailer for a few loads of stalks / hay!!!
 
WE just got an order in for some Distillers out of a plant that will be going on line in a few weeks before their driers will be fully running. Hope to get 200 tons or so in and tarp and store.. Works okay as long as it is cold and not to cold.. Our sweet corn silage was a bit more than that but not much.. Might be as simple as distance trucked and we had to add a few bucks a ton since we had them dump it on a cement slab to drain some water for 24 hours before loading it on semis for here... No cheap feed this year and the elevators are actually running low on things like oats since everyone switched to corn this year... Hay prices are all over the place. Called one place and they wanted to sell me cane ay for 165 bucks a ton and another guy could get me pretty good alfalfa for 110.. Some stuff cheaper but the frieght is killing us this year.. Most local stuff went down to Kentucky and Tennessee.
 
We had a real good corn crop this year. The good Lord even blessed us with plenty of overrun, that wouldn't go in the bin. Where we are at you didn't have to go very far north and the crops weren't worth a crap. You could say that we were in a garden spot this year. The yields really varied. We are very grateful for such a wonderful crop after the lack of rain in July.

How was the wheat crop in Nebraska, and surrounding areas?


MN Farm Girl
 

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