2025 field work

[BCClone]

Hope you had better luck with Wyffels than I did. If the people you work with are good people that helps.

Their big thing is conventional corn in my area.

 

[FLYINGCYCLONE]

Their big thing is conventional corn in my area.

I am planting all conventional again this year. I don’t do corn on corn so I don’t plant trained corn.

 

[BCClone]

I am planting all conventional again this year. I don’t do corn on corn so I don’t plant trained corn.

They make trained corn now? Mine never listens to me, I need some of that. .

 

[Frog]

Hope you had better luck with Wyffels than I did. If the people you work with are good people that helps.

Well thanks, sorry to hear you didn't have good results. We've predominately planted Pioneer with some years of Dekalb and Channel. This year we were planting Channel, Delkalb and Wyffels for the first time.

 

[BCClone]

Well thanks, sorry to hear you didn't have good results. We've predominately planted Pioneer with some years of Dekalb and Channel. This year we were planting Channel, Delkalb and Wyffels for the first time.

Ag Venture (then bought by Simplot) was the best I always had. Then at about the same time simplot bought them my rep passed away and the new one made me do all the work and I switched to dekalb and Brevant.

 

[FarmerCy1]

I find time to go the the games, but also put in a lot of hours that I will not have soon with a project I am doing. I am going to plant some fields with Wyffels for the first time, and I'm attending farm demos on no-till farming this spring and fall. NH3 in two weeks.

I've heard that corn yields can be just as good, if not better, with no-till practices, but I hear the yields for beans might be lower. Of course, there are savings on fuel and equipment costs. I already priced Yetter parts to upgrade my planter for this approach. One main concern is the pulling power required.

My dad is semi-retired, and I worry that transitioning to no-till would be too much for him. It was already a struggle moving to fall tillage.

We tried Wyffels one year on a field we put hog manure on- it unfortunately had a pretty average yield and had pretty bad stand issues towards the end of the season. The rep we worked with didn’t do much for us either. We’ve had pretty good experiences with Hoegemeyer and Brevant. Dad got a couple of boxes of Garst corn that we’re going to run on 80 acres this year and see how that works for us

 

[NWICY]

1.7 inches of mixed precipitation since Sunday

 

[BCClone]

Worst corn I ever had was Becks. I might as well have ran bin run.

 

[FarminCy]

Worst corn I ever had was Becks. I might as well have ran bin run.

But think of all the sweet swag you got from them!!!

Joke I always heard was they had to give you the branded semi trailer and other promotional things because their corn was so bad you couldn’t afford to buy those things anymore.

 

[Hoggins]

Just buy Becks XL. AKA Corteva

 

[JEFF420]

Becks is just licensed from others right?

No companies are going to license their best stuff. they are getting 15% for a hybrid they would have killed at PCM3

 

[JEFF420]

Well thanks, sorry to hear you didn't have good results. We've predominately planted Pioneer with some years of Dekalb and Channel. This year we were planting Channel, Delkalb and Wyffels for the first time.

How much does having good support folks, agronomist, good sales dudes, etc come into your decision process? or is it strictly price?

 

[cycloner29]

Just buy Becks XL. AKA Corteva

This is how Harry Stine became a billionaire in the soybean industry! It's all about licensing.

 

[WISCY1895]

Getting some nice rain in Wisconsin again today. Glad to get more soil moisture with a pretty dry winter.

 

[WISCY1895]

This is how Harry Stine became a billionaire in the soybean industry! It's all about licensing.

Stine definitely has carved out a niche of being the preferred germplasm provider for a lot of smaller seed companies. Bayer also moving Stine genetics right now in the Alloy and Connect brands since they don’t have breeding rights to Enlist E3

 

[Beernuts]

Worst corn I ever had was Becks. I might as well have ran bin run.

I always thought their company logo should be...

"Becks...Marketing Geniuses'.....Below Average Genetics"

or

"Becks...Hawkeye Arrogance...with Hawkeye in the field Performance"

 

[ISU22CY]

I always thought their company logo should be...

"Becks...Marketing Geniuses'.....Below Average Genetics"

or

"Becks...Hawkeye Fan Arrogance...with Hawkeye in the field Performance"

Amazing what a jet or helicopter ride with a Christmas toy book can do for marketing purposes

 

[FLYINGCYCLONE]

I sell Latham and Jacobson, both Iowa based independent seed companies. In the last 2-3 years I have corn numbers that have VT2 trait, but both parents are not Monsanto genetics. We sell products with genetics from a lot of different sources.

 

[WISCY1895]

I can’t be the only one that finds it ironic that Channel has sponsorships with CF and Iowa Everywhere. If you know anything about how that brand was started it definitely doesn’t align.

 

[Iastfan112]

Stine definitely has carved out a niche of being the preferred germplasm provider for a lot of smaller seed companies. Bayer also moving Stine genetics right now in the Alloy and Connect brands since they don’t have breeding rights to Enlist E3

Is always interesting to me how the Merschman side gets left out in these discussions. Its my understanding that the germplasm and traits are shared under the co owned MS Technologies company.