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(again) <\/em>… Course not (till it is in a bin). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"My long ago August update still looks in tack. 2025 corn pretty similar to 2024. My Meme Stock Beans<\/a> maybe similar as rain again cut off and August stayed hot AGAIN BUT to be honest if we had zero yield beans it might not move the needle. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Come on boys, get your act together. Farmers can not legally do international trade like Temu does us. In every medieval war the poor peasants in the front lines with mere pitchforks were the first to go<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As for stress degree days, we are running a bit hotter, but a bit wetter in July as I say, so that might cancel out. And August turned off a bit dryer with a hardly matters rain projected for a little less and a little earlier than when the rain hit 2024. So as I say a bit “same ol same old” (including lack for exports to the once big buyer before we thought starvation might be a plan)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Of course fortunately there is no such thing a global warming (good luck with that) but tell that to the corn which got a drink quickly cancelled by some far more frequent hot days. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We blew through that “140 units of Stress Degree Day” so will be interesting if water breaks made any difference vs stress yield losses. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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GDU vs 2024 comparison<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

NOW in 2012 by this time we had hit a whopping 220 Stress Degree Days back early July pollination window and were at 490 by dent stage … so there is that “a whole lot worse”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only the government and Chicago traders work off of perfect yields. Still at this point, with combines rolling, I still look at the numbers and my mid season corn even planted a bit earlier 2025 and I only come up at about 25% predicted moisture. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

No one should know this stuff. I should either be dead by now from all the stress of decades punching my own numbers to even be able to calculate these worthless facts … or should go get a life (preaching to the crowd) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still a witch doctor reading the bones useless effort but “Hay” we need something to ignore the lack of markets “elephant in the room” and oddly, lemonade out of lemons, I cut a grass waterway Tuesday and raked it Thursday 2 days later. THAT you can’t get away with in mid September most years. So the idiot here took down a pool way too early BUT at least we scrounged a bit of $ to turn the AC back on a bit longer while we wait for an affordable moisture to give away crops into. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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