Throwing in the towel on corn

I officially am done with corn, will be taking PP on 18% of my corn acres.  and now am switching the planter over to corn and hope to get that in in a timely manner.  here are some pic of the spring.

Corn planted one week ago today.

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Finally making some progress.

10 acres done, bugs worked out of my planter, hopefully get another 20 done today and then get some tillage done. 

Still snowy around here this morning, with more snow coming today.

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Kicking up dust

Just out doing some recreational tillage since the forecast is so poor.

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Finally getting something done.

A bit wet in certain spots and fields.

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Beans are beginning to turn.

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Not a normal picture for july 24th in north east iowa

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Corn Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRa5bGW8sSY&feature=youtu.be

Continuing the downhill slide

Pics taken 6-27, 7-7, and 7-11. last one is ground view of stressed corn.

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Beans growing better with the nice rain

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Looking good with another nice rain.

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Side dressing

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Updated look at crops

 Corn Field was planted April 24th (first field I did), it lost about 10% of its population to poor emergence. Later planted corn is about V2-V3 (or about half this size).

Bean field was planted May 18th.  You can see some spots took longer to emerge due to seeds sitting in dry soil.

Still dry but most plants are setting nodal roots

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Floppy corn

You can see the plant to the left how there's no roots in the top inch do to lack of moisture in that part of the soil.  And you can see the nodal roots are not touching the soil due to the crack. 

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A little dryer than 3 weeks ago when this was planted

That is a 3 " 12 gauge shell that fell in the crack.

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Think I can ask MON for a refund on these