We still have the potential for some good crops, as long as we get some moisture soon. All this beautiful sunshine is great but we have overrun our time factor of always being just two weeks away from a drought. The crops are beginning to suffer, particularly in the eastern part of the county. Yields on late planted corn will undoubtedly be reduced. Some producers are already assessing fields to decide which ones might best be harvested as silage.
Every year seems to be different than the one before and to some extent they are different.
But maybe the differences don't effect the crops as much as we suspect. The plot is irrigated when needed. The following table seems to indicates the crop has the ability to adjust to the growing conditions it encounters.