1000% I would. Only need 80k pop for full yield potential. Only thing that would bother me would be large gaps.
2025 field work
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At this point, guessing a bad lot number of beans.
Edit: Fields got a bit of rain last night. Fingers crossed it’s enough to help them push through.
There were a ton of seed beans harvested last fall at insanely dry moistures. Like 8% dry
We had more 80% and 85% germ beans to sell this year than I can remember for quite some time.
There are flexible rent options available as well. An arrangement where you get a base rent for the first half year's payment but the second is determined by how the crop does, on a previously agreed upon revenue formula at a publicly posted price at a certain date. If you are familiar and comfortable with your renter, they would share crop data (always nice to have) and depending on the crop you may agree to 33% to 40% of the revenue. You get some of the benefits of a crop share without either of you needing to deal with all the hassles of agreeing upon every management decision. When I was a younger farmer I had one of these and liked it, as it lowered the risk a bit. But later on as rents increased in my area due to increased competition for them, my landlord opted out in favor of a higher direct cash rent, which was understandable from his end. I think most people on either side of the table prefer to just come to an agreed upon rent and live with it until it is time to negotiate again. Specialized rents are for specialized situations.
Yep. Trying to improve air flow into the canopy with less plants. Have had pretty good success with it in combination to selecting varieties with really good white mold tolerance. Seeing some good things with reduced tillage as well. Anything to keep the canopy open longer allowing more air flow. White mold loves moisture
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We don’t have white mold as bad as you guys. But we found a product that we use in furrow at planting and come back post. Helps us.
Low humidity today , took about 2 hours to dry my blue jeans hanging on the clothes line this morning.
6-10 day is red and green. Sounds good. My corn planted Monday was sprouted Thursday 7:30 am. 300 b/a here we come.
Go Cyclones.
Go Cyclones.
Having spent a lot of time on farm all over the UK I love this show. It’s sensationalized but it does a great job showing how different and more diversified UK farming is than good old corn and soybeans in Iowa. Things like the farm store, small specialty herds, constantly changing rotations are common real scenarios. One of my funniest memories was being there for wheat harvest and walking to the pub/farm store at the edge of the field to get fish and chips to eat in the tractor.
Done with bean plots. 1 corn plot left that got drag lined on Thursday and will hopefully be dried out by Tuesday. This was a big week
I ordered 2 just to be safe. Can’t have too many trucks around.
Lots of rotary hoes running around the country. Several corn fields planted April 16-19th being tore completely out. Lots of spotting in corn to do. Beans planted in the same time are perfect. Corn planted May 4th already emerged this afternoon. Early beans in NCIA winning again this year. Not sure where Stormin is at in NCIA but I am seeing the complete opposite. 110k final stand is better than great. I have several customers dropping 120k with good results.
