North Central US | jd8850 - 4/14/2026 08:08
Wheat is $6, corn is $4. Been that way for awhile
Alfalfa is not cheap to plant. Wait a year for a crop that you may not be able to sell.
Hundreds of thousands of acres of wheat/durum in sw ND yet and probably always will be.
Some guys have no land debt, been getting big yields they are profitable.
Name 1 guy in your travels with 30k acres of corn/flowers.
Flowers are a 5 year rotation so that limits acres.
Wheat is $4 or $5 at best after basis, unless you have 16-18% protein. Ray-Beach-Sidney-Bucyrus-Dickinson-Bowman.
Wait a year? Plant it in the fall and swath it that July.
I don't think you realize how small a hundred thousand acres of field is, ND has 26 million in farmed fields right now. 5 million of it is spring wheat, 3 million in corn, 7 million in soybeans, 1 million in durum. When you take it down to the county, only a handful have a million acres, and they aren't usually in SWND.
USDA NASS has the breakdown by county. Hettinger for example 200,000 in Spring Wheat, 10,000,000 bushels, 50/acre avg 11,000 Winter, 500,00 bushels, same average, 35,000 in corn, 3 million bushels, 86 bushels an acre average, that is for grain only all crops.
As for your doxxing question, who do you know with 30,000 of one single variety of any crop? Basically no one grows that much of one single thing here. I don't go barging up to random people's houses and demanding all their info, if you want to do that you go right ahead. All I know is along 85 and 12 and the state roads, there is an awful lot of corn, beans, and flowers and very little visible small grains anymore.
Edited by GS2 4/15/2026 07:18
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