Suddenly It’s June 6!  Hoosier Perspectives  Planting window
opens for some, others face tough decisions.  Published on: June
6, 2011  Those who said there would be a break in the weather
were finally right. Of course, they were saying it for about a
month before it happened. And it may not be enough of a break to
bail out those with river bottom land and other saturated soils
who hoped to see corn growing there this year.  Slowly but
surely, the percentage planted numbers go up, both for corn and
soybeans. It's now dangerously late for both crops if you have
top yields plugged into your budgets. This may be one of those
years where the person who used conservative numbers in his
budgets and fought the temptation to buy the extra tillage tool
or tractor and run up the debt or pay an extra $20 per acre rent
for the farm down the road may sleep a little better at night.
A lot can happen between now and mid-October. Some years it's
good, and later--planted crops do surprisingly well. I will
never forget the old