How's field crops doing?

[DianeWV]

Hello. Can you say hot, hot, hot! I figure everyone is pretty well tuckered out being such a busy time of year. How's all your field crops doing? With the weather extremes all across the country, from droughts to flooding, just wanted to see how you were getting along or people near you. I know some of us raise crops to feed our critters and some raise to sell. Either way, it's a great amount of work and hoping you have a good bounty.

Here in West Virginia, we experienced extremely dry, dry conditions from March thru last of June. The field corn patch was looking bleak. Painfully bleak. We received some rains during critical time periods in July and also have had some decent rain in August now. The field corn is looking good thankfully. It has filled out nicely. If you would have asked me in late June, I thought it was going to be a bust. Letting the corn dry on stalk and will harvest in mid-September. Just have to watch it.

Just wondering how you folks were doing and hopefully staying cool! Take Care.

[Michael W. Smith]

Here in North-West PA, at one point during the summer, the grass was starting to get brown and crunchy. However we got some rain and now things are back to normal again.

The corn & soybeans are about the best I've seen - especially the soybeans - I can't believe how tall they got!

At the time I thought we were dry, we took a trip to Gettysburg. I'm not sure where it was that we noticed that they were worse off than we even were. Their corn was all curled up, their grass was totally brown and I would imagine even if they did happen to get some rain, the damage was already done.

[james dilley]

The Fall corn is 4" tall. And the Sunflower crop is about the same height. Just planted Fall melons to nite as well As replanted the corn...

[DaleK]

Driest summer in 50 years here but what rain did come was timed about as well as it could be. Wheat and barley are off and were 1/2 to 2/3 normal. Corn is very mixed, some will do well and some won't. There's some corn in the area with no ears whatsoever and farther west there are some areas where the corn is completely dead and worthless. Soybeans are probably going to be about 2/3 normal. Corn chopping will start early next week for earlier corn, we'll be chopping late corn this year.

[Farmerwilly2]

Ppphhhhhhhhhhhtttttt. I guess that about sums it up. Brother can you spare some rain?

[pasotami]

Upper East Tn - 7 acres of corn - burnt up and I'll be lucky to get enough for seed corn next year. I looked at it today and thought that it would not be worth the time and effort to do anything with. I may open the gate and let the livestock eat what they can. I sure hope the heat and dry makes for less bugs next year but I have my doubts.

[MWG]

Same here in NC, I watered my corn out of the creek and really didn't get anything that amounted to much. The ears were about half size. I am turning the goats in to eat whatever they can find that might be green. The neighbor that has been here 60+ years said this the the worst he has seen it.