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Nevada, Iowa | After a prolonged dry spell here, a good number of years ago now, we kind of squeaked out a "middle of the road" kind of crop. A popular radio announcer was talking about the advancement in genetics creating "drought proof" corn after harvest results were coming in. Fact is, we just got lucky. The bottom line, the crop will always be dependent on water. How much you get determines how much you raise. We can try to get everything else right but it won't matter if you don't get rain when you need it. We may raise more in like conditions than we did 40 years ago but frankly, 100 bu. corn without insurance is a financial train wreck. The term "drought" may have a little different benchmark than it did in 1936 but the result "could" be just a devastating. | |
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