Big white combine

ibetyamissedme":35ht22tf said:
Well the big white combine started harvesting the crops here on Monday night, really a discouraging feeling sits in your heart when that happens. It harvested about 350 square miles in this area. Beautiful corn and soybean crops diminished to black dirt.
I saw some pictures of it. Terrible.
 
We will replant the soybeans if it dries out enough to get back in there by the 4th. The corn is a total loss the preplant chemical on the corn acres will not allow for soybeans on those acres, no silage value in the corn as there is simply absolutely nothing left of the plants. I've seen wild stuff before but this is honestly the most astonishing thing I have ever seen as far as crop damage goes. Most corn was nipple high or better now dirt.
 
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Yeah, I know it's late. When is your avg 1st frost?
Will the plant protectant stunt everything else?
Anything that could be put in that could serve as a cover crop to protect your soil and maybe be used for winter forage or silage?
 
CottageFarm":f0d67abt said:
Yeah, I know it's late. When is your avg 1st frost?
Will the plant protectant stunt everything else?
Anything that could be put in that could serve as a cover crop to protect your soil and maybe be used for winter forage or silage?
I'm planning on corn for green chop, the grain farmers won't have that option. They are looking at oats or similar for cover crop, some others are going with radishes dependent upon preplant herbicide. Killing frost Sept 13.
 
Sorry to hear that. Seems like the last few years we're all dealing with catastrophic weather of some sort. Not trying to minimize what you're dealing with but at least it's in annual plantings and not permanent crops where you're set back for years.
 
This will sound crazy but you could look into Buckwheat for some grain. I remember the old timers talking about snows in late June and planting it so they would have food for the winter.
 

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