| ihredrunner - 5/12/2018 07:41 Pretty early in May yet to talk about Prevent Planting payment. Dairy farmers can't give up the same way and receive a payment for doing nothing. They work their butt off and receive very little.
I'll agree with the first part, even in extreme northern IA or the bottom tier of MN it's still 15 days too early to be thinking of throwing in the towel. As for the second part- well, we've had more experience with that in this immediate area than I'd care too, and it doesn't involve "doing nothing." If you've got much of that it's harder work than growing a nice crop is. PP turns to a weedy mess that has to be dealt with in both that season and the next, all of your other crops that did get planted are a mess to get sprayed, resprayed, replanted, fertilized, or whatever else, you are going to have equipment stuck and broken much more than normal, and the stress of doing all that crap while knowing that no decision you make is really a good one sucks a lot.
I'd ten times rather have half a crop due to drought than to mud. |
Prevent Planting
