When the next USDA report comes out I think it will be around a 4 bpa cut with the "final" yield in January being a touch over 180.
Any surprises good or bad in the plot you hosted? Really like the FIRST trials data so thank you for participating.
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Any surprises good or bad in the plot you hosted? Really like the FIRST trials data so thank you for participating.
The First people plant and harvest the plot. I don’t get to know anything about the numbers in the plot until I see harvest data. I agree this kind of data is good for farmers to get some information on varieties. You can always give your favorite seed company an idea or two about putting things in the plots. With companies disappearing, numbers are down some.
Saw JD is rolling out 18 autonomous tractors (total not models) for the 26 growing season which one of you high rollers is getting to use it.
I worked in R&D at Pioneer when they thought merging with and ag chem company was a brilliant strategy.
I swear, the key to being in upper management is to tinker and change things on a whim, even if you are undoing what your predecessor did, and repeating what their predecessor did. Then pitch your change like a depression era door-to-door salesman, and insist that your novel idea will take the company to new heights.
Of course, the employees that actually produce just roll their eyes and keep forging ahead.
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They were in Boone in 2024. I scored a free cup with popcorn. Beyond that, their displays were kind of bland. Nice air conditioned building though.
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Will a day come when farmers can apply pollen aerially to make up for a natural deficiency? I know there are some traits, like kernel color, where the genetics from the pollinator are immediately observable in the kernels. Do the pollinator genes immediately impact yield or moisture? Or would any run-of-the-mill pollen do the job?
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P13777 was the primary tassel wrap number and it didn't matter. Yields were high in plots
Can't wait to see the selected (paid) ag "influencers" touting how awesome they are and the "ROI" these machines bring to their operation.
Around 2008 or so, they paid a consulting firm around a million bucks to analyze their corporate hierarchy. The result: "You've got to get narrower and taller." iow, fewer reports per manager, but more manager levels to the very top.
About five years later, they hire a different consulting firm and pay them for their advice. Their suggestion: "you absolutely must get wider and shorter." So back we go to the original structure.
I joked with co-workers that we were in the wrong industry, and that I was going to start a couple side gigs. "Taller and Narrower Consulting LLC", and "Wider and Shallower Inc". Could have made a killing
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Really only a concern in seed corn production fields.
I believe that's where the company PowerPollen was/is looking to assist. Increase seed corn production with pollen application to augment natural fertilization.
The issues with consultants for management is typically they ask questions of management of what they would like to see and then they just reword it and feed it back to them
Plots are a bad judge of that issue as the surrounding varieties stand a very good chance of pollinating the plants with tassel issues. That said, anecdotally, I heard even fields that just had straight up 13777 did well locally.
The issues with consultants for management is typically they ask questions of management of what they would like to see and then they just reword it and feed it back to them
This. In a seed production field you can see it because of planting patterns and most fields are 20% male. Also, certain inbreds can produce great hybrids but be very poor pollinators.
In a commercial field, you'd never see it unless it's affecting like 90%+ of the stand. Even then you may never know.
Always remember what the first 3 letters of consultant spells.
Corn is going in the ground in central TX. I noticed one farmer starting yesterday (12th) and I guess the fever struck. Today everywhere you look they are going after it. Every year they move the date up at least 4 to 5 days. Last year they started between the 16th & 20th. Sun is shining, we're in the high 70's so nobody can wait.
