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Western OK | This area Used to be 100% continuous wheat for ever. We have been 2/3 wheat 1/3 row crop for quite a few years now ourselves. We're backing it down to under 50%. We're planting some that should have never been broken out back to grass and going 50% row crops.
Not sure on the specific row crops, with exception to this year we have been growing quite a bit of cotton. Cotton currently is just as bad as wheat, like wheat it takes an above average yield to squeeze any money out of it. We brought back milo into the operation this year from about an 8 year hiatus, it's yielding good, but nobody wants it. So we will probably look like idiots and plant more dryland corn....
Corn doesn't cost much more than wheat to put in. It takes less nitrogen per bushel, and if the stars all align can yield significantly more of those bushels. The elevators and feedyards want it, unlike milo. Also the growing season is shorter which equals less interest owed.
Only problem is the failure rate is higher than wheat. But as Jim Carey said in the dumb and dumber "so your saying there is as chance? " , at least there is a chance in making more than just crumbs......
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