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Manage your time, weeds and previous stands to maximize yields
At the beginning of the week, farmer Russell Boening of Poth, Texas tweeted a picture of nitrogen application, saying that planting for him is less than 30 days away. He farms roughly 40 miles southeast of San Antonio.
If you’re putting a pencil to your corn cost of production for 2018, consider the blog that Joe Lauer, University of Wisconsin agronomist, released this morning. Lauer reports that the “cost of production in 2018 is predicted to be $645 per acre. The breakeven price for corn at a yield level of 200 bu/A is $3.23 per bushel, at 180 bu/A is $3.58 per bushel, and at 160 bu/A is $4.03. Today, December corn on the CBOT closed at $3.85 per bushel making the 2018 growing season a challenging one economically.” Lauer references the annual Agricultural Resource Management Survey (ARMS) to develop his snapshot on expected costs of production. The estimates exclude costs for marketing and storage. ARMS collection begins in the fall and then is completed the following spring; the 2017 survey is still underway. Lauer notes that the “cost of corn production in 2016 was $665 per acre in the Heartland region and $587 per acre in the Northern Crescent (Figure 2).”
#Plant18 is getting closer by the day. Your planter might be up and working in perfect order, but are the seeds being dropped where and when they need to?
Farmers are taking some of the trade war risk off the table by planting fewer soybeans and more corn.
Overlapping germplasm can hit your pocketbook and reduce crop diversity
Despite some Midwest harvest delays in recent weeks, farmers have made up a lot of ground in their soybean fields this past week.
Prepare for additional challenges when planting soybeans on soybeans
Farmers will be able to plant Enlist E3 soybeans in select areas because of a partnership of Dow AgroSciences with ADM. This will allow certain farmers to use not only the herbicide tolerant seed, but the accompanying over-the-top herbicide as well.
