Posted on 10/10/2013 6:27:03 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Harvest is in full swing across the country, and farmers in many states are surprised at the abundance of corn they’re getting from their fields.
Dairy farmer Ben Steffen, who also grows corn, soybeans and wheat on 1,900 acres near the southeastern Nebraska town of Humboldt, said his first corn field brought in 168 bushels an acre, above the average of 140. …
The best crops in the U.S. are in areas that received adequate rain combined with cooler temperatures at the time corn pollinated, a welcome sight after last year’s dismal harvest due to the drought withering corn and soybean fields and burning up pastures. Record harvests are likely this year in many states, including Alabama, Georgia, Indiana and Ohio.
All that corn will help refill bins that had been emptied after last year’s drought-reduced harvest of 10.7 billion bushels, the lowest since 2006, said Chad Hart, an agriculture economist with Iowa State University. …
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Thanks Olog-hai. Here, the rain was just right this year.
Global warming is creeping into everything. I picked up a climate zone map for planting, and the new one over the one several years old shows all the zones shifted. AKA, they list cooler areas north as warmer zones, because of global warming assumptions.
But with global cooling, planting the warmer weather plants will certainly kill them.
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