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| I guess the grass is always greener on the other side!!! We had thought for a long time that SE Kansas might be a better place to farm, seems like it was always raining there when it wasn't here. How deep are your soils before you hit gravel? Predominant soil types here are silt loams, most of them eroded. In some places there is rock creeping out of the hills and in others we have a full profile of soil. The $70 dollar cash rent has been driven in an area where they have had success raising summer crops, and within 5 miles of a terminal elevator. Thirty five to forty dollars and acre would probably catch the median here. But there are already begining to be rumblings that rent needs to go up if we are going to be raising all these crops and "wearing out" the ground. It's, frustrating that so many landowners are clueless about the benifits of crop rotation and closed to the idea of learning why it's beneficial. AS IF the 61st straight year of wheat is going to be better than the one before!
When do you try to have your corn in the ground in SEKS?? What maturity lengths are you planting? There were alot of people this year, including us on some ground, that learned a very important lesson about selecting maturity lengths and planting dates. Ten days cost nearly 40 bu/a. | |
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