Monroe City, MO | All those uses you mention are nice but I couldn't justify it for those reasons. Fungicide application on beans currently we do with a ground rig. By eliminating that we won't run down approximately 3 percent of our beans. Even if the beans along side compensate for having a missing area nearby we hope to pick up 1-2 percent on bean yield over the ground applied fungicide. Additonally, saving $15 an acre on corn will mean we will go to a fungicide application on corn, something I hadn't done because of application cost. Lastly, with the price of nitrogen being what it is we are planning on a cover crop of legumes to fix some nitrogen on ground going to corn. Even with the cost of the cover picking up 30 or 40 pounds of nitrogen will be a homerun. Payback should be less than a year on most operations of even modest size. |