[AT] Are we alive?

[Ron Cook]

Dean,
     I do not know anything about the crop insurance.

     The new hybrids are pretty tolerant of most everything including 
drought.  But it does take water eventually.  Hot days and staying hot 
at night are very bad no matter what hybrid.  Pollination really suffers.

Ron Cook
Salix, IA
On 7/14/2012 7:18 PM, Dean VP wrote:
> Ron,
>
> Thanks.  That doesn't sound good at all. I'm so removed from farming I don't know when
> crop insurance kicks in any more. Do you happen to know? I seem to recall being told in
> years past that the new hybrid corn would kind of go into "sleep" mode until moisture
> arrived. That may have been a false sales pitch.  Also that may have been true but not at
> certain times.
>
> Dean VP
> Snohomish, WA
>
> "Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
> - Ralph Waldo Emerson
>
>
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> Dean,
>       Yes.  Worse both west and east of us, but without rain in the next week it will
> certainly hurt the crops badly.  Forecast to be about
> 98-100 degrees all next week.  Pollination of later planted corn will not work out.  I
> heard of one yield test result of 179 bu/acre.
> Normally should have been projected at closer to 220 and that test was done early last
> week before the heat.  There are the usual spotty thunderstorms around from time to time
> and those crops under those rains will luck out.  Most all fields have that pineappley
> look to them most of the day.  Soybeans are probably still mostly alright, but the hay
> crop is really hurt.
>
> Ron Cook
> Salix, IA
> On 7/14/2012 5:47 PM, Dean VP wrote:
>> Ron,
>>
>> Is it really dry to the point of damaging the crops in Western IA?
>>
>> Dean VP
>> Snohomish, WA
>>