Best wheat start in years. Gonna be lots of cattle pasture this year. Still really uneasy about not having double crop beans, 100 Ac of corn and lots of sorghum harvest ahead of us.

Lucky you to have sorghum to harvest. The rains didn't come for Randall county until about August 1st, so the dryland sorghum is way behind schedule. A lot of it looks good...for September 23. Too bad it is October 23.

It got down to 36 last night, so I don't foresee the sorghum gaining a lot of maturity in the next few weeks.

There is lots of pretty wheat here, too. Too bad the price has cratered.

When is the calf mkt. going to get good?

afraid all the markets are in the tank until the economy turns around and who knows when that will be.

Dean,

Here's the Nance Ranch (WTAMU) Tmin data for the past few days. At Bushland, we're sweating trying to get a few more cotton bolls open.

minT °F
W.T. Feedlot
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minT
10/15/2008 : 37.5
10/16/2008 : 32.3
10/17/2008 : 44.4
10/18/2008 : 42.8
10/19/2008 : 46.7
10/20/2008 : 48.1
10/21/2008 : 51.2
10/22/2008 : 30.5

Yeah, the Amarillo temp did not get below freezing Wednesday night, but someone at the Hinders dairy (about 5 miles south of Nance Ranch) said they had to break ice out of the water buckets Thursday morning.

We've been blessed with great conditions for winter wheat this year. Unfortunately, the same isn't holding true for final development of the cotton crops. It's going to be pretty tough on the majority of the acreage.

I hate to see commodity prices tank but I'd be surprised if they're not back up (not sure how high) once inflation sets in coupled with the corn/beans acreage battle in the spring. We got a lot of our producers covered on 09 corn/wheat with synthetic puts over the past few months (sold futures in July; bought calls over the past two weeks).

26 for a few hours here in Spearman. Lots of sorghum/cotton/double crop corn smells a lot like silage this afternoon.

Our cotton looks killed with very few bolls open right now after last night (30F last night). I have some SDI cotton that has 3-4 open bolls/plant. Our sprinkler irrigated and replanted cotton looks pretty bad.

Dryland may out yield the irrigated fields.

had some double crop soybeans make 60 bushels today!

Doc,
Were your beans irrigated? 60 bu/ac beans on a double crop is excellent.
Our late rains helped.

CanyonAG

you know the Hinders? I used to Dairy judge out there all the time. Tell him hello from an old family friend if you get a chance. I know he and the fam have been through alot.

Spider,

They were planted irrigated but with all the rain we got from July 4 till now I only watered them to get them up and to fertilize them once. 3 inches of irrigation total and over 15 inches of rain.

The other set of beans they finished today. I planted them a week later and mudded them in. Guessing they went 45-50. Will know more tommorow.

both were 125 acre circles.