2025 field work
- Thread starter BCClone
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Disease is bad this year. I think I’ve literally seen every corn disease in the book when walking fields. Southern rust, Northern, Gray, tar spot, bacterial leaf streak, physoderma, and anthracnose stalk rot starting to show up now too. Insane
Video shared at worked today of chopping corn at What Cheer
Video shared at worked today of chopping corn at What Cheer
Left acreage near town unsprayed, rust is going to be bad. SDs is just starting to show up in untreated fields. Soybean Seed treatment seems to be holding it down so far.
Been mostly variety and hot spots from what I’ve seen so far. Corn seems to be the bigger problem
If you gotta ask, you can’t afford it.
Then again most inputs are unaffordable at 3.60 corn.
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Sold some old crop corn today for $3.94. Sold Yrl feeders yesterday, lots of irrational exuberance due to cheap corn. One fat steer brings more than a semi load of corn. Crazy times.
That’s an interesting way to put it. How many steers could you finish on the same load of corn? Any idea? I know nothing about animal husbandry
About 100 bushels of corn to finish a fall weaned calf. So 10 or 11?
10 or less, of course it matters what weight you start at and how heavy when slaughtered. Right now with cheap corn, they are adding an extra 100 or 200 lbs. My last close out was $.75 a lb cost of gain so if a steer is bringing close to $3.00 a lb you can do the math. A slaughter bull that weighed 1805 brought $5100 last week in SD. Be a lot of new pick ups at the Sale Barn this winter.
Agreed. Have a fully treated field and one with no treatment whatsoever; planted 1 day apart both Corteva genetics, the untreated has handled SDS much better, almost certainly due to it's better resistance as reflected by the score.
Did anyone try to spray fungicide twice? I don’t know anyone around here that did. $3.70 corn put the brakes on spending more money.
