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Southern IA | as long as you buy them I think everyone is happy. In all seriousness, my opinion is that ground is like everything else. You don't buy a ford escort expecting to win the Saturday night drag races against the Corvettes, and no matter what you do to that Escort, it is likely still going to underperform that Corvette, but you pay a lot less for that Escort. Same with land, you pay less for the less productive ground. IMO, having manure is the best ace you got on that land. If you can correct the major drainage issues, adding manure is going to do things to your soil that non-livestock guys can't do without buying it in. If I were cash renting out my ground, I would give preference to a livestock guy that could put manure on, as long as he was sensible about how he did it and when he did it. Continuous corn and manure is about the best you can do. Obviously, you want to pick hybrids suited to the soil, and not expect your racehorses to crank out corn if moisture can be short in the soil come July and August. | |
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making 200bpa ground out of 150bpa ground....
