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NC Kansas | To me that's strictly an "only if I have to financially" decision but I'm still planting wheat and really value my rotation of crops. I happen to not have any corn on corn scheduled this spring so for me all my corn stalks will be planted to beans. We can raise really good corn in wheat stubble on a dry-ish year, so that will go to corn. I'd have to plant beans on bean stubble to skip some corn and that is terrible for our soils here to go beans on beans... that's a gun to my head/only option move for me.
Our weather is so variable... we can have really solid corn crop and cook our beans in August down to nothing... and we can also have a near failure on corn but raise good beans. It just never makes sense to me to try to outguess the weather AND the markets in my neck of the woods. Crop insurance tools kinda allow your train of thought to work out fine, but I'm more worried about my soil tomorrow than my bottom line today. | |
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Corn vs Beans
