Predictions for early geese!

[Finlander]

With the crops way ahead of schedule like corn 5-6' high already, and wheat already getting cut, do you think the fields will be good this year for field hunting?

[carpshooterdeluxe]

why wouldn't they be any good? there will be plenty of fields chisel plowed and showing nice green regrowth in september. i'd rather hunt chisel plowed wheat than wheat stubble any day. Edible bean fields should be harvested around early september as well. not to mention silage corn. the crop maturity should actually help hunters this fall with more fields harvested and available, thus in theory creating less competition. Now our August season out here on the other hand, will be a gong show for field competition. thank god for pastures.

[Quackaddict9]

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why wouldn't they be any good? there will be plenty of fields chisel plowed and showing nice green regrowth in september.

what he said... Every season I get a nerve wacking feeling about fields and so on but it always works out well in the end. Knock on wood!

[Finlander]

Latest info about the farm fields!

Minnesota crops are flourishing, well ahead of schedule

By BOB VON STERNBERG, Star Tribune

Last update: July 20, 2010 - 7:50 AM

Corn's coming -- sooner than usual.

One more indication that this summer -- warmer and wetter than normal -- is paying dividends in Minnesota: The state's crops are in terrific shape.

Federal agricultural officials reported Monday that corn, soybeans, wheat, barley and oats are ripening far ahead of their historical averages.

For example, 90 percent of the state's corn crop is rated good or excellent and its average height is pegged at 73 percent -- well ahead of last year and the five-year average.

Agriculture officials reported that temperatures were generally above normal last week and that topsoil moisture registered a surplus of 15 percent above normal. That's a strong indication that the drought that has gripped much of the state for more than a year is abating.

Conditions were so favorable that they estimated that 5.2 of the past seven days were suitable for farmers to get into their fields, the best average since May.

Last week's stormy weather didn't appear to inflict serious damage on the state's crops, officials reported.

[hunter322]

Anyone seeing many geese around? i hunt around the the st. croix valley and really havent seen a whole lot. a few hear and there. anyone seein any around here?

[Gordie]

This morning I saw quite a few focks of geese around Elk river and I have been seeing more and more ducks winging around.