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How is your corn harvesting progressing? Better than expected, worse, etc? Results and yields posted here.

How is your corn harvest progressing? How much do you still have to finish?

Please post your progress and yield information here to share with other farmers. Will will add the posts and pictures from Twitter that Ontario farmers are sending.

Thank you and good lulck with your harvest!

 

For soybean results click here.

 

For plot results visit the Farms.com Yield Data Centre at http://YieldData.Farms.com,

This site will be updated as soon as the results are sent in.

 

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Permalink Reply by OntAG Admin on October 21, 2011 at 2:15am

Article in the London Free Press:

Crop Yields Amazing

It’s not what farmers and agricultural officials expected after a cold, wet spring and parched summer across much of Southwestern Ontario’s farm belt.

Yield reports from fields that have been harvested are being called amazing.

“The yields on both corn and soybeans for the most part have just blown us away. We do not hardly understand where these yields are coming from,” Peter Johnson, crop specialist with the Ontario Agriculture Ministry, said Thursday.

Johnson said there have been many growers reporting 50 and 60 bushels an acre soybean yields.

“We would have expected a lot of 30 and 40 bushel soybeans. The yields have been just outstanding for the year that we had,” he said.

The situation has been similar for corn.

Some growers are reporting yields over 200 bushels an acre and many are talking yields of 160 to 180 bushels, Johnson said.

“We would have expected to have heard a lot of 140 bushel corn yields.”

There have been some growers hit with lower yields - 20 bushel an acre soybeans and 120 bushel an acre corn.

“But the vast majority have been more than surprised and amazed by the high yields we have been getting,” Johnson said.

The trick for farmers now is to get the remaining crops out of the field before snow arrives.

Johnson said either dry conditions are needed or freezing temperatures that will allow farmers to get back into the fields.

Harvest is further advanced north of London where it has been drier then south of the city.

Some areas north have 80% of the soybean crop off, while areas along Lake Erie have only 20% harvested.

Corn and soybeans are the two biggest crash crops in Ontario, worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

The recent wet weather is raising the tension level for farmers waiting for a break.

Jay Curtis, a St. Thomas cash crop farmer, said it is putting growers behind the eight ball.

“It rained and rained, through the prime planting season, so we were late getting crops in.”

Curtis said the regions’ summer with good heat and timely rains helped to put the crops back on schedule, but now Curtis said, “we’re getting saturated, so we’re in big trouble again.”

John Ferguson, of Ferguson’s Fancy Beans in St. Thomas, said in an average year he hopes to have beans harvested by mid-October. This year Ferguson estimates 50% of the bean crop is still in the fields, and it’s going to have to dry out for a couple of weeks before any harvesting can take place.

Southwestern Ontario’s corn crops have a better chance of getting harvested, said Ferguson, because corn can be harvested even after snowfall, “making corn a much less risky crop.”

Corn usually must be dried down to 15.5% moisture, so a wet crop can cost a farmer, a lot of money in the form of natural gas or propane to dry his crop, he said.

“To take corn from 30% moisture to 15.5% would cost about 70 cents a bushel,” said Ferguson who noted that the current price of corn is about $6 a bushel.

Permalink Reply by John Schwartzentruber on October 21, 2011 at 5:39am
6" in the rain gauge here north-west of Brussels in the past 10 days. Not too much going on for a few days even if it quits raining.
Permalink Reply by OntAG Admin on October 21, 2011 at 10:51am


DekalbWoodyOct 18, 4:03pm via Twitter for BlackBerry®

The new DKC43-10 tops a plot in Mildmay today at 216 bpa and 26%

DekalbWoodyOct 17, 11:36am via Twitter for BlackBerry®

DKC 43-30 coming off in the Pefferlaw area at 220 bpa today at 25%. A very happy grower as a result!

Permalink Reply by OntAG Admin on October 23, 2011 at 9:35am

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cashcropper88 Finally got rolling on the corn today! #harvest11 http://t.co/r4jET1Xl

Permalink Reply by OntAG Admin on October 23, 2011 at 9:37am
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HustonFarms Day 2 of Corn harvest. Moisture still a lil high(27%), but on a day like today we can't sit still in October. Yield close to 200.

Permalink Reply by OntAG Admin on October 23, 2011 at 9:43am



G Martin Derks
 
In the middle of a 700 ac corn field

Permalink Reply by OntAG Admin on October 24, 2011 at 1:31am


 

phhermans7:20am via Web

Just talked to a grower corn weed area 120 bu., non weedy area 175!

Permalink Reply by OntAG Admin on October 25, 2011 at 7:25am
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ChuckBaresich Another complete corn field off, 191 bu/acre on 68 acres. Mid May planting, 52-59 Dekalb, this despite heavy WBC pressure.

Permalink Reply by OntAG Admin on October 26, 2011 at 5:48am
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RosendaleFarms 1st Corn Plot was taken off outside of Elmira!! 1.25 ac #Pioneer #38N88 went >200 bu/ac @ 27% moisture

Permalink Reply by OntAG Admin on October 27, 2011 at 3:17am
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earlymilking Incredible yields coming off in Tavistock area, corn pushing over 200bu/ac, beans over 60bu/ac, just amazing for 2011

Permalink Reply by OntAG Admin on October 27, 2011 at 3:23am

plegault Drying corn at MacEwen Grain Elevators this morning. Farmers pleased with yields so far. http://t.co/xPkqr6UU

Permalink Reply by jim denys on October 27, 2011 at 4:03am
First field off in nnorth middlesex, late may plante maizex 4030smx and 3969. Went 191bpa dry. Was coming off field at 23%, quality is good, but a lot of guys in the area are seeing a lot of ear mold. Fields need to dry for a few days before we can get near them again

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