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Florida in the path! Plus…Crop Talk!
Ike damages 80 percent of homes on Grand Turk
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PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos (AP) — The Turks and Caicos premier says Hurricane Ike has damaged 80 percent of the homes on Grand Turk island.
Michael Misick tells The Associated Press by phone that Grand Turk took almost a direct hit and that hundreds of people have lost their roofs. He says people are cowering in closets and under stairwells and are “just holding on for life. They got hit really, really bad,” he says.
There are no reports of deaths or injuries, but authorities are now trying to rescue people and get them into shelters.
Ike is now raking Haiti and barreling toward the Bahamas and Cuba as a powerful Category 4 storm.
Misick said Sunday that he will fly to Grand Turk once the weather subsides.
Here’s a sampling of what some folks are saying about farming conditions:
from Ag Web:
9/5 - Huntington County, Indiana: The big rain event on Thursday missed us completely. We got enough to wet the pavement, but not enough to register in the rain gauge. Since August 1, I have received .35″ and the last 3 weeks of July were not much better. The corn is firing 2/3 of the way up the stalk and the beans are dying on the high ground, turning on the average ground and green in the low ground in the same field. I am very worried about the beans. I would guess that there will be few 40 bushel fields around us. I have a 12 variety corn plot and did the Pro Farmer yield formula in it and it went from 150 to 215, but that is in a good section of one of my best fields. I will be surprised if I average 150 over all the fields.
9/5 - East Central Indiana: It appears we are just about safe from frost damage. Most crops will be dead by any frost date due to lack of rain. I traveled through NE Indiana yesterday and it was just as bad if not worse. Talked to some that said Ohio is worse. All that green and yellow on DTN radar for the last 14 hours has added up to .16.
9/5 - West Central Missouri: We started picking some wet corn Monday. Moisture was between 21% and 25%, planted late first week of April, dryland. Average yields around 150 bpa. The rain helped some late planted corn and beans. Overall corn looks good, some yellow spots in the fields where N was lost. The rain is just holding us up now. Irrigated corn looks really good.
9/5 - Central Arkansas: Rainfall totals the last 3 days range from 6 to 11 inches. No where for the water to go. Many rivers expected to reach or slightly exceed flood stage within the next week. Very little crop harvested to date, maybe 10% of the corn where it is normally in the 60% range. Flooding delayed planting this year and now flooding will take out some of what was planted. Been a tough year down “south.”
9/5 - Wright County, Minnesota: The corn crop is wilting and dying in the field. We need rain badly although it is probably too late for this years crop. It is drier here than the drought monitor shows.
9/5 - Jasper County, Missouri (Southwest Corner): Corn harvest underway. Looks like yield could range from 145-200 plus on dryland corn. Most corn was way late. Early crop looks excellent. Beans have a ways to go but have had optimal growing conditions. Sunflowers excellent too. I think we’ve had at least 55 in of rain this year but know how you guys feel were it isn’t raining. Everything burnt up 2 years ago. Amway gotta look forward to higher inputs and lower price
