Your acre

YOUR ACRE. 
      Many of my readers have been pledging support of an acre of production through their church, thank you.  If there are others interested in getting their church involved you can reply to me at deanlundeen@gmail.com and I can help get that started.
      Your acre that you support will produce a crop, be harvested, sold, and the proceeds sent to FRB in support of one of their overseas projects.  What I cover in my blog is symbolic of what occurs on your acre.
    I just finished planting today May 21st.  There were many challenges, cold wet soils delayed field work and I was 2 weeks behind normal progress.  Farms along the major rivers in flood plains may never get planted (when the water recedes they will have debris to remove soil to dry out and field work to do).  Ohio and parts of Indiana are still delayed from major planting progress.  When planting is this far from normal corn yields suffer.  The saying "knee high by the forth of July" is from the era of 80 bushel of corn per acre not the 200 bushel per acre we target now.  To feed the world takes everything to go right in agriculture.  We need the corn planted in soils that are not too wet (ground gets compacted reducing root growth), not too cold (germination of seeds need warmth), and plenty of sunshine (plants convert sunlight into energy for grain).  So far this spring the challenges are all three of those.  It does not look as though all of the corn that was intended to be planted will actually get planted and a good number of the planted acres are in less than ideal conditions.
     Your acre can still produce well.  We need a warm sunny summer with periodic rainfall.
                                                                               Serving together, Dean   

P.S. may 23rd  Planted acre report shows only 11 percent of Ohio corn planted  vs. 80 % average
                                                                       40 percent Penn. corn planted vs. 74% average