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| Tom, I plant 85 to 92 day corn and .5 to 1.4 bean. The seed companies don't recomend any bean above a 1.0 here. I have planted 1.4's and given the year sometime turns out quite well. I think this year it would have been benificila but I decided not to plant any that late of a maturity. Last year was also vry here and the 1.4 did the best with the late August rains and warmer thatn average Septenber we recieved.
Dad said when he was a kid that the only corn grown around here was for silage. The hybids they have out now have really pushed the northern edge of the corn belt, though I would like to see a large selection of 85 to 90 day corn.
It is a different world that you and I farm in, and it is only maybe 150 miles away. I am east of Hinckley. Most the guys joke that we could come to southern MN or Iowa and farm blinded and still get a better cropps than we get here. I know it isn't true but it always easy to think the other guy has an easier time farming.
Hope harvest goes well for everyone.
Nathan | |
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