It’s a new year and @geewago posted that corn is in the ground in Texas. What are people up to?
2026 crop year
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Wouldn’t be surprised to see Anhydrous going on before the 1st of March the way the forecast looks. I think things look pretty dry too.
To cold here? Frost in the ground. Thinking of selling some new crop? We have had a nice jump and prices are a lot better than prices for 2025 crop.
currently building my own farm manager app because nobody has all the environmentals or give you the ability to add your own risk algo layers. (for a reasonable price)Must be talking soybeans. New crop corn is in a very similar spot pricewise as this time last year, a fair amount lower on old crop.
We have one field left to put anhydrous on that we had to skip over to get it pattern tiled over the winter. Hopefully it gets tiled in the next week or two so we can get that project done. The weather stays like this we’ll probably have to start hauling corn- if Valero offers any flash buys that is.
We started flagging plots yesterday. Ground is still very much frozen like a foot deep. I have a tulip coming up in my front yard though
That frost is going to work its way out fast with a weeks worth of temps in the 60s and sun.
All weather data (now modeled using kriging processes on NWS sites, but later will be upgraded to 4G stations..). from planting to harvest is fed into a risk analysis that is tailored per hybrid... to assess disease pressures and pin point before large outbreak.
I do some disease scouting for a company’s site. They have algorithms and have me hitting specific ones that should be key ones for the area I’m in. Saw the southern rust rolling in last year but it was like tar spot 5 year or so ago. We knew what it was but had never seen it explode like it did.
The impact of it is still a question. It’s also something that is unlikely to be like last year again.
as a grower... do you have the ability to model and scout your own fields?
model ROI on applications of prevent.... etc?
I can make some adjustments and mark up the field map with notes. I’m hesitant to say what can fully be manipulated by the user as I’ve always been in the system deeper than probably most growers can since I do work for them and actually was involved in their testing and launch.
I also have access to the guy who oversees the whole platform so when I hit a wall I don’t like I can generally email him and coders will adjust it.
Os that the breakeven, with a new Denali?
I sort of kid... The math we did was about 15-17 bushels lower at $4.25 corn
I loaded up with insurance this year as it’s quite a bit cheaper and seeing if it pays for itself this year. Usually it means we are going to get a slightly lighter crop and high prices when I do that.
Also, O/N corn at my local is 4.13.
Open ET
Above is a link to a water usage data hub that I want to start playing around with. It was originally developed for irrigation in the western US but has just recently expanded the the entire country.
Anyone that farms thinking about switching some corn on corn acres to soybeans? Starting to take some calls from my customers.
