"Corn Field Sex 2009", better late than never....

Maybe the longer you wait the better it is, let hope so here as we are talking the mating season here in much of the midwest being 3 to 4 weeks behind what has become normal the last few years. But the picture second one down shows the stage of a lot of corn here in Indiana. The silks have just emerged, the corn is healthy silks are plentiful and polen is falling from the male counterpart the tassel on top of the stalks. Yes it is happening "Sex in the Cornfield 2009", these plants are getting it on, as I sense that they sense time is of the essence here...It is August not early July and time is a wasting for corn developement......

I think that the corn market has awakened to that fact also, 'finally', yesterday we had a good move up actually the last 3 trading sessions have seen up tics but yesterday it got exciting...I think the market is doing its job of price discovery for this years crop and realizes the drop in price since the government declared a large acreage increase for this years crop a month ago, may have been overdone. And on top of it all is the possibility of this much cooler than normal summer producing a real market mover, especially with these late planted crops, an early 'frost'....We are probably headed back to near 4 dollar corn instead of flirting as we did with 3 dollar corn......

But also a villian has appeared as has been a problem in past years. In the first picture you see sex being inhibited somewhat as these Japenese beatle villians eat the silks of the corn as fast as they emerge from the ear. This can dampen the polination process but usually enough polen falls and at some point when this family of beatles takes a nap or a break, the silks can gather in the polen and the process can proceed anyway and the micro polen sperms can find there way to the tubular silks and once inside start their voyage to the point of origin on the corn cob and a new kernal of corn will happen.....

So my readership as you tour the fields of the midwest this week should you hear a few "aahhhs" now and then with your window rolled down you will know that things are good, that nature although behind a bit is having its way in these corn fields...all is good...Have a great week