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DMiller 
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 Posted: 29 May 2019 at 11:30am |
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Lots of small acreage plots around here managed to get planted between rains, most of those on terraced hillsides, bottoms are still a mud pit and will remain so until we get a full week of sunshine AND the river goes down, that is looking as some time NEXT month.
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FREEDGUY
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Posted: 29 May 2019 at 7:19pm |
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We got hit with more flooding the last couple of days, also high winds.--some of the corn that did get planted came up.---IF it produces anything or not is the next problem!----it's not in the bin yet!
There are an awful lot of bare fields in this area right now. ---The biggest problem here is the greedy guys that have ousted us little guys, and can't cover the 40,00 acres they farm!--in a way it serves these guys right!---course they are the ones getting govt. handouts, so it would make them more money if they don't plant!---A bad deal for the little family guys and getting worse every year! -- Really sad!
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I don't even want to comment on the "BTO'S" issues, a little truth to your "serves right" statement 
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AllisFreak MN
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Posted: 29 May 2019 at 8:29pm |
Plant more soybeans...... 
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Lars(wi)
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Posted: 30 May 2019 at 1:53pm |
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I remember more than once, planting in mid-June and still getting a decent crop. Maybe not a 'bin-buster', but still very good. Those years nearly everyone was 'diversified' in what their farming operation was.
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I tried to follow the science, but it was not there. I then followed the money, and that’s where I found the science.
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FREEDGUY
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Posted: 30 May 2019 at 5:05pm |
Lars(wi) wrote:
I remember more than once, planting in mid-June and still getting a decent crop. Maybe not a 'bin-buster', but still very good. Those years nearly everyone was 'diversified' in what their farming operation was.
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Do you recall the maturity by any chance? Dad planted corn on June 9 in 1972 as my mother and then 1-day-old sister were still in the hospital after sis's birth and dad HAD to get the corn in the ground, it was harvested for ear corn back then 
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Lars(wi)
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Posted: 30 May 2019 at 8:06pm |
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more than likely 90-95 day. 30 years ago 100 day was very rare, only the very daring would plant a bit of it.
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I tried to follow the science, but it was not there. I then followed the money, and that’s where I found the science.
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Lars(wi)
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Posted: 30 May 2019 at 8:16pm |
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gotta remember back in the day, crop rotation was normal, along with livestock of some sort on most farms where I grew up. we knew in the fall what fields the next spring were going to be planted for silage, they manured heavy early fall, then the following year corn again for grain,and fodder, fall plow, next spring oats-alfalfa.
the hybrids were Kaltenberg, Renk, and Spangler for silage. Pioneer, Dekalb, Crows, and Northrup King for grain.
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I tried to follow the science, but it was not there. I then followed the money, and that’s where I found the science.
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FREEDGUY
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Posted: 31 May 2019 at 6:15am |
Lars(wi) wrote:
gotta remember back in the day, crop rotation was normal, along with livestock of some sort on most farms where I grew up. we knew in the fall what fields the next spring were going to be planted for silage, they manured heavy early fall, then the following year corn again for grain,and fodder, fall plow, next spring oats-alfalfa.
the hybrids were Kaltenberg, Renk, and Spangler for silage. Pioneer, Dekalb, Crows, and Northrup King for grain.
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Our crop rotation was corn/corn/corn for at least 18 years in a row back then LOL!! dad farrowed to finished 100's of hogs back then and relied on the corn for feed. Robinson/Price, O's GOLD and a little Jaques(?) over the years
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