1. Announcements and Weather Outlook

This is probably our last gasp of summer in 2023. We'll have mild temperatures next week, but there's no guarantee that we'll see a
stretch of warm, dry weather like this until spring. With this in mind, corn silage has been flying out of the field. And rightly so, since
much of the region's remaining silage-bound corn is at or very near peak maturity. See Section 2 for the numbers.

Once again this year I have funding from the NY State Corn and Soybean Growers Association to provide free testing for soybean
cyst nematode in soybean fields. If you're interested, please get in touch.

Further into fall, we're expecting warmer weather than usual, thanks to El Niño. See our weather outlook from Jessica Spaccio
(Climatologist, NRCC):

2. Growing Degree Days See: Climate Smart Farming Growing Degree Day Calculator. Check your location, planting date, and silking date. Silage corn
needs 750-800 GDD after silking to reach a whole plant DM of 32%. Under typical late season dry down conditions we can expect the crop to reach 35% DM
four to seven days later. For more details, see this article. No matter what the numbers say, check your crop!

Hybrid Relative Maturity (day length) GDD from silking date to reach ~32% DM
101-110                                             800
96-100                                               750
<96                                                    750 or slightly less

Highlighted in green: Gas up the harvester and the trucks (35% DM in 2 - 8 days, depending on maturity)
Highlighted in yellow: See you in the field (35% DM in less than a week):
Highlighted in red: It's either already in the bunk or it's going for high-moisture corn or it's going in the bin for grain (DM likely > 35-40%)