Hamilton, OH/ Browning, MO | I've been a Total Acre member for 3 or 4 years now, I forget exactly. Is it worth the money, absolutely. Is it for everyone, no. It does take a tremendous amount of patience and effort, which most grain farmers are not willing to invest in. One example is waiting to plant corn until the soil temp is 56 degrees. How many corn farmers will have the will-power to do this when all the neighbors are running as soon as the soil is dry enough but still cool. Or the effort into pulling soil samples on 1 ac grids when the local retailer that sells fertilizer claims that 2.5 ac grids is good enough. Or the time and patience to set the depth on your planter, yes bean planter also, for each row to exactly the right depth. I'm saying take the time to check every single row with a floor jack in the shop, not just checking one row and making sure the rest of the rows are set to the same notch on the T- handle. Or flag testing corn emergence across the entire width of the planter and then harvesting each row by hand on that flag test to see exactly the yield of each row.
Randy and David have been successful at producing record breaking yields, and this group allows other farmers to see and think of some of their thought patterns. They aren't going to give away all of their trade secrets, but they make you think about how to do things and why. I pay for the membership to do a better job at being a farmer, not to set yield records and brag. As I said in the beginning, most grain farmers are too lazy to take the time and effort. If you put the time and effort into it then it is absolutely worth the investment. |
Is it worth the money to be a Total Acre member?
