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Central Missouri | How do you leave checks in a completely revamped production system?
We would have to farm strips the way we used to and that is completely not feasible.
When you know what tissue levels you need for certain yield goals and you werent getting them with the old system and you are with the new why would you want to go back or even continue the old? That is how we use the info from total acre.
The problem with leaving checks is the old snake oil argument. When it is multiple nutrients or timings that are holding back plant health and yield and you throw one product at it, lets say its boron and you put on a quart, you may see a 1-4 yield increase but you put a bandaid on one of the gaping wounds your system has, so its labeled snake oil.
Its a total systems approach fixing the limiting nutrients and practices up to your yield goal. If we are able to do that and minimally increase our cost of production per acre and our yields go up thus reducing cost of production per bushel which is what we are after.
In your case, where your yields went up without doing anything different and it was due to weather and hybrids, was the weather good enough for 250 bushel corn but your system isnt? One could argue that maybe if you go down the road we have your corn would have averaged 250 if you had set a 250 goal and fixed all of the things in your system that are holding you back?
The driving thing in my mind that set us down that road is what you saw this year, in our really good years our yields were capped at x. Why? I blamed it on our soil but it really was our system. | |
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