Mid-Michigan | IALTO - 8/6/2016 11:44
Reading that article i thought to myself, self, what the hell do we need to grow 300 BPA corn when the threat of a 170 BPA national average has us headed to sub $3 corn. So in theory we should plant twice as much seed and use twice as much fertilizer so we can end up with what $2 corn? You'll need 300 BPA to break even. Sounds like a seed salesman dream though for everyone to plant 50,000 seeds per acre.
I agree completely. I know I learned my lesson on creating big bushels years ago when I first put my sub-irrigation system in. I was bound and determined that I was going to grow 200 bu. corn on this piece of ground (200 bu was pretty rare then). I upped all my inputs. I had beautiful looking corn. It went 200 bu. After keeping very good records, the 165 bu corn on another farm made me more money. Sometimes I think we can run ourselves broke trying to grow more and kill every weed. |
Corn nitrogen rates - revisited
