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Late planting thoughts...

giles

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Anyone put any thought into how this late planting will effect deer hunting season? I see a lot of frustration coming to those hunting Ag land. I think it will be a bumper crop for acorns though so that might be a solid plan. I’ve got a couple of stand spots picked out in my head for the Athens property that should play into the acorns.

Those with beans...I’m thinking they’ll be green into pre rut.

Seen my first tractor in a field today and it got my gears turning. Food will be a game changer for you buck hunters. Guys like myself just might get lucky and have a farmer push a monster to us during gun season.
 
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hickslawns

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I think many farmers will be forced to switch some corn fields over to beans. I don't know if I agree on green still. Does the time in the ground determine when they brown out or the change of seasons? I don't know enough to answer this. If planted later your thought makes sense. Unless they simply yield less and brown at the same time?
 

triple_duece

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From my experience from hunting in the Midwest, second plantings of soybeans were all dark green mid September. The first planted beans were mixed w yellow leaves. So imo, both things influence the plants, age and weather.
 
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hickslawns

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Imo, it wont change much for the farmer. They'll maybe change up to different variety beans. I prefer corn to stay on well into November

Planting more expensive corn which germinates/grows faster could happen. But isn't there an optimum window? Will some of them miss the window and be forced to switch to beans or risk terrible corn yields?
 

Jackalope

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From a hunting aspect up here in tabletop flat country I hope the crops stay on until the end of January. When the crops come down is when every bone collector wannabe get his ass off the couch. They won't walk a half mile around the edge of a standing cornfield to get to a stand, but they'll walk 300 yards across it once its cut. I love it when those crops are up until mid November.
 

giles

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Planting more expensive corn which germinates/grows faster could happen. But isn't there an optimum window? Will some of them miss the window and be forced to switch to beans or risk terrible corn yields?
How much seed do you think they have on hand? This problem is all the way across the corn belt.
 

giles

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From a hunting aspect up here in tabletop flat country I hope the crops stay on until the end of January. When the crops come down is when every bone collector wannabe get his ass off the couch. They won't walk a half mile around the edge of a standing cornfield to get to a stand, but they'll walk 300 yards across it once its cut. I love it when those crops are up until mid November.
Lots of those are the same ones hunting corn piles/feeders. Not as productive with a standing 50-150 acre corn pile 30 yards away.

I’m already giving ODNR reasons for next years low numbers...:sneaky: (make that green for my coonskinner reference)
 
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OhioWhiteTails

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I prefer the beans off by October 1st and the corn up until gun season. The small woodlots I hunt will hold more deer if they are surrounded or at least partially surrounded by standing corn.
 

Bowkills

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The corn window is closing fast. Usually ohio is 90percent planted by now and it stands around 4percent(or something like that) currently. I just talked to a 3k acre plus farmer. They said june15th is the cut off but want their whole crop in before that so it's more like june5th start. As they need 10working planting days for corn. So beans might be all over the place making any cornfields goldmines around here. A lot of rumors of farmers considering not planting going around as well....interesting year.
 
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Denny
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I seen a story the other day on that the cost of planting soybeans this year just might not be worth it since the trade war with China has made a turn for the worst for today farmers, (China being the the purchaser of 1/3 of America Farmer's soybeans of the gross amount).

I haven't seen any plowing in any of fields nearest to our home and typically they would be planted by now. This year would be typically be beans, but like I said, I haven't seen any work done yet on the 1000 acres right next door and it's not like the fields are flooded or anything like that.

Today's market price is slightly up to $8.32 - https://markets.businessinsider.com/commodities/soybeans-price

Soybean Prices - 45 Year Historical Chart

https://www.macrotrends.net/2531/soybean-prices-historical-chart-data
 

Boarhead

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Farmers were out planting all around our area today. Lots of corn going in.
 

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Quantum673

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Talked to a farming buddy last night. He said he should have the remaining fields planted by tonight. They have been running hard this last week to get it in but should make it.
 
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bowhunter1023

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Beans were in early on us, as was the corn. All ridge top fields though. The farm to the N of us hasn't been planted cause he's got all the bottom fields. That will help me for sure. The only thing that impacts my hunting is when the farm to the N has corn and it stands through November. Other than that, crops don't matter much in my area, but acorns sure do!
 
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