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southern MN | My dirt is pretty deep and heavy and holds a lot.
It’s pretty easy to see when corn is thinking of starting with a $2 in local price that we don’t put that last dollar into the fertilizer and mine a little out of the ground instead. When we think gosh corn might start with a $5 it’s pretty easy to spoon feed and broadcast to be sure we get a good crop, money well invested should return.
I believe that actually has a 2-3 year swing on yield potential? It’s not going to be measured in dozens of bushels, but it will show up as a blip?
I don’t think we cut back to hurt yields, but we puff up to go for top yield potential in a high dollar year.
Around here mostly we invest good income years in more tile, which long term means more bushels in good or bad years. I don’t think I would have had a half a crop the past 5 years without the tile I’ve put in the past 15 years. I at least have gotten a 2/3 to 3/4 crop with the tile. Probably a bigger thing that fertilizer and is effective every year forward.
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Can american corn farmers out plant the market?
