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| I don’t know what corn APH’s were around here in 2003. Back then most people were growing wheat 2/3 of the time and corn or milo 1/3 of the time. Quite a bit of fallow mixed in there as well so some people were even less than that. Corn or milo 1/3 of the time, wheat 1/3 or the time and fallow 1/3 of the time.
Corn was grown into wheat stubble only for the most part. Pretty rare to see continuous corn more than once.
Now there are probably dryland corn fields within 30 miles of me that have been continuous corn for 10 years. In that same time period there are some fields whose APH has increased by 50 bushels per acre as a guess.
Corn varieties are way better than they were and fringe farmers have gotten better at corn at an astounding rate. 50 bushels per acre in 17 years may not seem like much to you guys but when you consider where we started and expressed as a percentage it is a lot especially when you consider that fringe farmers have done it at the same time as they have greatly increased the intensity of their crop rotations.
Wheat production has not gone up a similar amount in the same time period. People occasionally had 90 bushel wheat 35 years ago. And now we occasionally have 120 bushel wheat. It’s just not the same progress.
Edited by dpilot83 6/22/2020 06:29
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Looking forward.
