Friday Crop Report on a Thursday!

[woodland]

Better get them out of there quick before you lose them - it's at the stage it goes from knee high to head high almost overnight!
What CHU rated corn are you using and what are your typical CHUs in your area?

We planted 8 different varieties with varied maturities so it’ll be interesting to see how they turn out. Did plant test strips of them on one quarter for comparison and will definitely have pictures and numbers later on. I think we’re 1800-2200 CHU’s here but highly variable depending on the year. Really running behind on heat currently and the forecast looks cool and damp going forward. I imagine you are in a higher CHU area than us. How’s your crop looking so far?

[grassfarmer]

We planted 8 different varieties with varied maturities so it’ll be interesting to see how they turn out. Did plant test strips of them on one quarter for comparison and will definitely have pictures and numbers later on. I think we’re 1800-2200 CHU’s here but highly variable depending on the year. Really running behind on heat currently and the forecast looks cool and damp going forward. I imagine you are in a higher CHU area than us. How’s your crop looking so far?

Sketchy as always - I'm a poor crop farmer! Crop got off to a slow start with being so dry and is still very poor on the hilltops. Didn't make the "knee high by 4th July" but was close, as our crop has been in previous years. The best parts were just starting to take off being waist to chest high but got the leaves shredded by light hail the other night - probably 1/3 to 1/2 the leaves shredded in the worst parts.
Full of weeds compared to most peoples as we don't use GM corn - we have one field that's a "polycrop" of corn, triticale and some wild oats - if the corn stays ahead we could get some quality and yield off it.
We are said to be 24-2500 CHU here and are running about 90% of usual accumulation to date. Our old place in AB was barely 1800 CHU on average but I see it's running slightly ahead of average for the date - whereas the Growing Degree Days are well behind normal.