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flying belgian

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• Oct 10, 2015

• #1

Had the weigh wagon check yield on some corn today. Two different numbers of Ag-venture brand. One went 184/bpa. Other one went 182/bpa. I know them are not terrible numbers but my neighbor said his was 200 and another guy at the elevator said his was running 230. I gotta tell you I'm a little disappointed. Oh this is So. central Mn.

 

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Tim(nj)

Well-known Member

• Oct 10, 2015

• #1

It has been my experience that what a guy says he's getting and what he's actually getting can be two different things.

 

casecollectorsc

Well-known Member

Location

E central SD.

• Oct 10, 2015

• #1

It's like snow and rain.....the neighbors always get more.

 

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robgIN

Member

• Oct 10, 2015

• #1

Just be glad you are not in NE Indiana this year. Those 20 plus inches of rain in June really hurt the crops around here.

 

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tomturkey

Well-known Member

• Oct 10, 2015

• #1

the combine monitor may have said 230 for a few minutes, so he WAS getting 230 bpa. For an acre or so. He'sprobably not lieing, just leaving the overall field average unsaid. Grain farmers HOPE for a bin buster, sheep farmers hope for a 200% lamb crop, and cattlemen hope for a 100% crop. In the end we must be happy with what we got and move on. gobble

 

Pete in MD

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Location

Central Maryland

• Oct 10, 2015

• #1

Ain't that the truth!

 

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farmerwithmutt

Well-known Member

• Oct 10, 2015

• #1

And how much of this yield did he buy? You can always pour on the fertilizers but how cost effective is it? It's like the guy who wins at the casino how much time and money did he but in to get bragging rights.

 

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fixerupper

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• Oct 10, 2015

• #1

The other day a good friend of mine who is an agronomist visited customers in part of northwest Iowa with the farthest north customer by Worthington Mn. His overall estimate is in the 190 range for the area he visited. The Worthington area looks the best. Everybody had a 230 bushel story but it was in a small area in one field. I don't know what mine will yield but it looks very good and judging by the way the weather has been and will be for the next week I might not have a drying bill to pay.

 

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GordoSD

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• Oct 10, 2015

• #1

What was your input cost for fertilizer? More or lee than the neighbor? You have to figure all the numbers , not just the bpa

 

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JD Seller

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• Oct 10, 2015

• #1

Yields this year are really variable. The summer rains where real spotty around here. Some would get an inch and others would get 2 tenths. Then you add in the wilt and blight pressure makes for a widely different picture field to field this year.

So we have fields that are making 225 and others that are in the 160-170 range. One of the lower yields was on our best ground with a hybrid that has been the top yielder for us the last 3 years. The problem??? It is a fast growing earlier maturity corn. Right when it was filling the final part of the ear we had three weeks of low rain fall. So by the time we got the later rains that variety was already done.

So you do the best you can and pray/hope for the "right" weather to make a bin buster crop. Until they can tell us the weather 12 months out we just do the best we can.

So the early maturing hybrids and the ones with lower tolerance for blight/wilt suffered this year. Next year will be a different game.

 

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IowaJohn

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• Oct 10, 2015

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We got started on beans today. Very disappointing not gonna make 50 for a whole farm average. Of course 15 minutes of nickel-sized hail The first of August makes a difference, we've already replaced some siding, will put a new roof on the house next year. Just 1 of things that can happen farming, will be turning the beans in for federal crop. Took out 32 acres of corn that ran over 200 testing 19 will see what's left after it comes out of the dryer.

 

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notjustair

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• Oct 10, 2015

• #1

I had a shock when I walked out in the beans today. This is the first year I have had liquid on the planter AND had half Liberty seed. The Liberty beside the house had 35 pods on average. I walked 100 yards east to an old RR 3.8 that has been yielding about the same. Those got starter as a test. Every plant had stooled out four branches and the pod average was 78. I can still hardly believe it. Far more were two bean pods but the seed size was good and consistent.

Tomorrow I am doing lots of walking. There are 750 acres to examine. I've been badmouthing this brand of starter because the plants looked no different. I'm anxious to get into the field this week. It may make up for the zeroed out wheat crop this year and 15 BPA beans the last four years of drought. I'm cautiously optimistic. You know farmers - always looking for the next reason they could go broke.

 

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Josh-nhihguy

Member

• Oct 10, 2015

• #1

I'm 27 years old. This is my 6th year of farming and am by no means a BTO. For my area, learned right away that 150 bu corn and 40 bu beans are nothing to complain about. Had a little more and a little less but always thankful I had something at all. This year has so far been a little better, but in reality I've made more money off of less yield with higher prices and varying input costs. In the end, doesn't matter how good or bad, I just enjoy doing it. And that's what matters.

 

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roaddevil49

Member

• Oct 11, 2015

• #1

For a minute there I thought you where talking about what they got last night,lol.

 

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Leroy

Well-known Member

• Oct 11, 2015

• #1

Your yields are what I would call normal, I was usually not able to even get that high in corn. Think only about 7 or possibly 8 years since I retired from farming and cash rented my ground. I see no way anybody could be getting those yealds they are complaining about.

 

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Chris(WA)

Well-known Member

• Oct 11, 2015

• #1

Neighbors exaggerate...

 

bwillett

Member

Location

West Central Ohio

• Oct 11, 2015

• #1

The saying at the Farmer's Table at the local Restaurant is, "First Liar doesn't have a chance".....

 

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David G

Well-known Member

• Oct 11, 2015

• #1

I do not see how you can afford to farm with those yields and the high input costs.

 

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JMS/.MN

Well-known Member

• Oct 11, 2015

• #1

Who ever gets yields in nice, even numbers. And do they have enough bin space to hold all that they claim, when they sell nothing at harvest? Distant neighbor who always bragged about his yields, asked me years ago, what"s your corn running? I told him, 5 bpa better than yours. Hasn"t asked me since.