Farmer Reactions to Last Week’s Reports

July 7, 2011

By: Sara Schafer, AgWeb.com Business and Crops Online Editor

COMMENTS (5 Comments)

NC71 - Lincoln, NE
Lots of talk about the wet areas of the midwest. I might add, we have a truck driver who does weekly trips to California from Kansas & Nebraska with returns as far east as Tennessee on a regular basis. So, we get harvest reports & and crop conditions from the "windshield". Since he comes from a farm background he's pretty accurate. He just returned through Texas & Oklahoma, then north through Nebraska and Kansas and reported there was very little corn 'till he reached northern Kansas that will produce anything unless it's irrigated. The dryland corn in most of Texas and Oklahoma is done, no matter how much it rains. These may be "planted acres", but they'll never go to the bin. Lot's acres in the south will never be harvested. And, we have nearly 3 months to go before full harvest begins in the Midwest. I can't remember this many acres in trouble. An early frost would be awful and we're due. Add to that the transportation problems brewing with flooded rail systems, and barge traffic and it's going to be an interesting year. It'll be okay, USDA says so.
7:21 PM Jul 7th

RLCXZ - GREENFIELD , IN
Just saw the nortern part of Indiana last week. Most corn is very short, some only 6-8 inches tall. Lots of wet holes, yellow corn. Have a feeling much nitrogen has been lost if put on, and much nitrogen yet to be put on. Saw seveal fields that have not even been planted. USDA report is just another Obama LIE. He probably ordered the report to show what it showed. I know of nobody here changing from beans to corn.
4:08 PM Jul 7th

DAVID - SMITHFIELD, PA
To me, anything and everything "this government" claims is NOT true.
3:16 PM Jul 7th

Mark - Aurora, NE
Crops look good In our area. However, USDA really missed the mark on their June 30 report. Also we need to understand that 8 to 12 years ago a group of farmers (one of whom I know) talked to a former USDA statistician. This person said whatever final totals they wrote down for the reports were never used they were always changed. I think the govt. should get out of the reporting business until they can be honest!
1:22 PM Jul 7th

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