| IADAVE - 9/23/2025 22:58 One way to cut cost is to cut population. I have corn with 32,000 and corn with 24. If the Pioneer yield calculator holds true, the lower population will produce less corn, but appears to be close to the higher population on net profit. If I calculated out the extra handling and fertilizer, it might be even. Of course if corn goes to $7.00, I will be short.
Have said it before.... astonishes me how many farmers seem to be willing to just take recommended rates from the company SELLING the seed, but won't take an hour of extra effort to generate test plots on their own fields with strips of varied populations. I was gullible that way 20 years ago, briefly. |
Honest question on seed cost
