I had a 90 year old landlord riding with me while I was planting his crop about 15 years ago. I was having trouble with my auto steer at the time and was trying to explain to him the situation. He said “when I started farming, if we had trouble with the steering, we had to shoot it and dig a hole!”
Purple on the radar usually means hail.
That sucks. I had hail south of Algona. But not that bad. Had an 1.5” of rain.
Hail this time of the year is extra sickening. Not that it's going to make you feel better, but that photo actually doesn't look too horrible for hail on fully matured beans. Pictures don't always tell the whole story though. Know someonen in Nebraska that got hail on beans last week and his photo looked similar and his were adjusting at 15 bu/A loss.
It's going to get worse. Lots of the pods still technically have seed in them but are split open. I guess I should consider myself fortunate that it's taken 4 years for me to have a truly depressing event farming.
Bayer found out shortly after their accusation of Monsanto that their plan to absorb the losses associated with the Roundup lawsuits was not viable/sustainable and have been trying to spin the chem side off for several years with no takers. About a year and a half or two years ago they offered employees an "out" offering early retirement packages or severance not wanting to put their employees at risk but reviled that they could not guarantee that their jobs would be sustainable. Our son who had a "higher up" job opted to take the (what I thought was generous) severance and found a similar position at a different company. I therefore lost my "inside" source and don't know where things stand now
So that is why Pioneer signs have disappeared in my area. They aren’t called Pioneer anymore. I was thinking there was another reason.
I wouldn't understand the decision to throw away the Pioneer brand when they've spent 100 years building equity in it. What yields are people seeing?
