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Western Ky. | Ed I appreciate your response. I believe the best we can hope for is to put ourselves into a position to make informed decisions and control those factors we can. That said, any farmer who denies that luck does not play a big factor in farming is whistling past the graveyard IMHO. We started planting (no till) this year on April 3rd. The first farm we planted came up and looked great untill April 21 when 80% of said farm promptly went under water. We were not able to replant untill May 26. when the river went downand the rain stopped, for the next 4 months. The difference in yield between the early planting date and later planting was 47 bpa 140 vs 187. For the year as a hole I feel lucky. We did not contract any corn @ $7.00. At that time it was real hard to estimate what kind yield we might get. A very poor choice but prudent at the time.
We had another farm that went under water (creek bottom with nothing done to it at the time) that should have been in corn this year. We planted soybeanse June 29. No tilled into 3" of the finest silt that the surrounding upland could provide. It made 57. We had a bag of seed beans and 1 qt of Gly per acre in it. Profit is a strange lady sometimes.
Edited by Gro-Mor Farms 12/31/2011 10:29
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