The drones I saw spraying by fort dodge were too close to cover a full 30’ if that is what they were trying to do.
2025 field work
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Nothing else where we wanted on corn but by late this afternoon made the switch to beans. Family partner thought it'd be too wet yet but outside some stems being greener and a tough cut the grain itself was at a nice moisture.
Tough to tell on yield yet, lots of pods but kind of small seed
Tough to tell on yield yet, lots of pods but kind of small seed
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Saw where Deere let go 150 people.
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John Deere laying off nearly 150 more Iowa workers
John Deere announced today that nearly 150 Iowa workers will be laid off next month.
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$3.90 corn doesn’t buy a tractor that lists for $1,300,000. That is 1600 acres of corn at 200 b/a. It is a bummer. If they are really good, they won’t be out of a job long.
The stuff hammered by southern rust is absolutely that dry. Talked to a guy who started on Monday on a 108 day at 18% along highway 20. That stuff has super weak stalks too with a bunch of isolated thunderstorms over the next 5 days too. Not great.
Makes taking out plots hard as well as early maturity is falling apart with full season stuff hanging on as those RM’s have better southern rust scores
https://www.reuters.com/business/co...rt-stirs-worries-over-operational-2025-09-15/
interesting developments in the Ag world
"The seed business generated about 56.5% of total net sales of $16.90 billion last year, while its crop-protection segment, which includes herbicides, fungicides, insecticides, and seed treatments, accounted for 43.5%."
interesting developments in the Ag world
"The seed business generated about 56.5% of total net sales of $16.90 billion last year, while its crop-protection segment, which includes herbicides, fungicides, insecticides, and seed treatments, accounted for 43.5%."
Corteva just spun off to be a pure play Ag company and it didn't last a decade? What?
I don't get this move at all if it happens
preparing their anus.... Bayer/monsanto did not... see what billions in court rulings has done to the share price
This is to shield the Pioneer, etc. seed brands from potential chemistry lawsuits. The world is coming after ag chem and it's a complete wildcard that they have to insulate other parts of their business.
Also, "extract value for shareholders" is usually in there somehow.
All this talk about drones spraying, yield monitors, satellite imagery, etc... makes me wonder what my grandpa would have thought of it all (farmed all his life, died in 1988). I suppose he would never have believed it, it would have been science fiction for him.
I'm not sure if he even had a tractor when he started out, might have been horses.
I'm not sure if he even had a tractor when he started out, might have been horses.
Horses and farming. If you go back to that time, before tractors? That means about 4 out of 10 people on this sight are involved in farming. Horses, hogs, cattle, chickens. You like the sound of that? No cell phones. I wouldn’t want to go back to that. You guys? You would get hurt picking up a pitch fork.
Best was when you went out partying the night before and the parents knew it
7 am on Saturday you’re in the barn pitching.
When I was in Iowa small high school (circa '68-'72), our PE classes generally squared off farmers vs town kids as it was nearly a 50/50 split. The farm kids were generally tougher as a whole as each were exposed to manual labor on a daily basis. Raised on a diet of pitch forks, scoop shovels, hay racks and the like we really didn't need a PE class. When our son graduated from the same high school in '95, he was one of two farm kids in his class. The advent of the skid steer, larger bins (less scooping) and general automation on the farm lessoned the physical requirements
Even such things today like bulk seed handling rather than throwing 50# bags to fill the planter lessons the load and confinement livestock eliminates 90% of the labor. I don't know the numbers but would venture to guess the vast majority of kids on the rural bus route live on acreages and have no ties to farming.
I hate to think of it this way because I have no regrets being brought up in that era, but todays kids who spent their time playing video games and being familiar with computers may be more suited to farming than those who had a pen of three at their local 4H fair.
Farm kids today with a pen of 3 cattle see the same things I see, and are better equipped to to run hi tech stuff then I am. They will fly a drone before I do. Even though I would love to have one. They will have to have take no prisoners mind set because corporate America don’t care about you in the least. They want 1 big farmer not 5 mid or small farmers.
Certainly some give and take with harvest this fall.
Still not a huge sample but across 2 varieties soybeans have ranged from really good to best ever. The downside is they just will not dry back down.
For corn the non-fungicide stuff is all we've taken out so far and yields have been pretty decent for the level of disease I saw out there BUT a field we tried a week ago(+20% moisture) we got back into today and at least in a portion the corn is down pretty bad. One variety is worse than the other but both are not pretty and made for a bit slower going than hoped.
Still not a huge sample but across 2 varieties soybeans have ranged from really good to best ever. The downside is they just will not dry back down.
For corn the non-fungicide stuff is all we've taken out so far and yields have been pretty decent for the level of disease I saw out there BUT a field we tried a week ago(+20% moisture) we got back into today and at least in a portion the corn is down pretty bad. One variety is worse than the other but both are not pretty and made for a bit slower going than hoped.
