| cornstalk - 12/23/2025 17:56
As much as you bitch about being dry, why would you work your ground? Next you will bitch about it blowing away.
The maddening thing about the excessive spring dryness in 2023 and 24 is that we lost tillers.. losing canopy.. then later rains.. flushed pigweeds. Most burndown programs.. just for the chemicals.. were in the mid $30 per acre range last year.. per pass.. and one pass wouldn't always get it.
Dicambia (or 2-4D) can be limited by what the neighbors planted.. Soybeans.. Cotton.. Personally I'm not a fan of paraquat.. and even it had marginal results.. some started spraying that only in the evening to increase absorption over night.. etc.. to slow the burn down.
Its not been hard to incur $60 to $100+ costs per acre.. approaching $2/bu.. just in chemicals.. and that will pay for ALOT of tillage.. if you get the moisture to replace what is lost..
Add the tariffs today.. and no till programs are becoming pricey.. look at the pickle some southern states.. like Arkansas are in with resistance.. which is moving north.
Some believe tillage may get a fresh look driven by economics. In the 1999s even Roundup would get broadleaves.. those days are over. There are no "easy" buttons today.
Edited by JonSCKs 12/24/2025 06:49
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Anybody up for a little dry in HRW Wheat talk?
