Missouri | Everyone makes the equations seem so simple on here, but none of my silage math actually adds up either.
The insurance yield estimate was so high there's no way it can be right. My yield estimate on my own ear samples was closer to traditional yields, but it doesn't appear to work through the tonnage figures correctly either. I can't even measure the bags and reverse the math to something that makes sense. I was just trying to sell it to myself just for some cost of production figures on the cattle side, but the row crop me and the cattle me got to arguing so we all just agreed the moisture must be too wrong to figure anything out until a feed test gets run. Sure would hate to be trying to settle up with an actual customer on the old "this many tons x this much per ton" guesstimate.
I know I've felt like I was robbing guys in the past when they quoted me a price on a pile of purchased silage. |