Our beans are mostly still green with some yellowing beginning. Fungicide working its magic. I saw a field locally that had dropped half its leaves. Bought a potload of calves yesterday, pricey little critters. Interesting times in the grain and cattle sector.
2025 field work
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They have to drop the corn yield. We're going to end up closer to 179 than 189 so they have to get moving.
I agree but given the weekly crop ratings barely budging before this week I just don't see them moving much
Had a guy who isn't a seed customer of mine start asking questions. He only sprayed a few fields of what the book said had a big response. Asked if I thought it'd be about a 20 bushel loss or what. The look on his face when I said that he's probably looking at double that was not a look of glee.
So yield is down but harvest acres are up so total production is up for corn and soybean. Does anybody understand their logic?
It's all a game. They will be off by a handful of bushels. They've taken 50 cents or so off the market all summer, we will run it up to somewhere just shy of $5 throughout the winter and then we will overvalue next years crop again driving down the summer market. There's no accountability there and so long as their estimates hold power over the market, we are at their mercy. There's no agronomy in the measure, they ignore farmer surveys and they rely on imagery that can get the yield right but can't tell you if a field is corn or beans.
Drove from Mason City to Algona this morning. From Garner to Ventura, every field of corn on the north side of Hwy 18 had some corn falling down. Guys start your combines. Could be a fun fall.
That areas corn has been down for awhile. That was the hardest hit area for the derecho. The Ventura coop lost a tin can or two from it.
I have seen some scary field health maps from drones. You could tell some of these drone operators don't know what they are doing. Too wide of swathes and end rows not covered and some that I assume were done on to windy of days.
I have heard there are good drone fungicide results, but definitely not all
I have heard there are good drone fungicide results, but definitely not all
Too low of application rates also. Heard some instances of applying under 1 gal/acre to try to increase efficiency.
Hard to do a 30 foot swath with 2 nozzles and 1 gallon per acre and get good coverage.
I would like to hear what the drone users were doing. I saw videos of drones with 2 nozzles and drones with 4 nozzles. Would think 4 nozzles would be better. how wide are the drone nozzles? It seems to me the middle would be getting a lot more product than the out edges of a 30 foot swath. Do most drone operators run a 30 foot swath? That is what I hear most are doing.
The guy who did chemicals and fungicide for us did 20 foot wide.
Hard to compare without knowing what every guy uses.
Yup, And we can see if he shut off early or started late. We tried a couple different things so we will see if they were good ideas or not. Winter meetings will be a lot of fun.
