“A drought will scare a man to death; a flood will starve him”: old farmer quote.
Surviving when weather turns against you means thinking outside the box. The wet and cool/cold has held on and now has put normal planting/harvesting into the far edges of the bell shaped curve of normal results. The key to remember is YOU STILL HAVE OPTIONS if you think outside the box. Same old, same old will not cut it this year.
Not all the corn is planted and fields are still too wet. If there are corn grain growers in the area they are struggling with the wet weather, and the cloudy conditions will significantly decrease projected yields based on previous years like this. Thus, they may be open for you to buy their standing corn out of the field. It is not the highly digestible varieties you normally grow but will make more milk than sticks and dirt clods you are facing now. It is critical to watch the milk line and harvest grain varieties slightly earlier to assure full kernel digestibility and maximize stalk fiber digestion.