Re: OF: Can corn or soybeans be the crop of the fu

Posted by paul on December 06, 2004 at 15:33:32 from (66.60.197.70):

In Reply to: Re: OF: Can corn or soybeans be the crop of the fu posted by 7720future on December 06, 2004 at 14:27:07:

What is your email address? I didn't think you would be checking back here, from the way you wrote your first set of messages. Glad to see you back to discuss it.

I think corn, beans, wheat will be the money crops for some time to come. Corn is king, and will remain so. We are learning how to better process it into what we need - corn siryp sugar, ethanol, DDGS, and so on, broken down into components that industry & food giants use. This used to be the domain of soybeans, but in the last 25 years they have learned to process corn into components as well. Corn yields & dependability continue to go up, up, up. We have gotten a handle on pest control in corn. For now.

For all that, corn is the crop of the present & the future.

Soybeans are faultering, they are having pest pressure from aphids & now the rust issue - already sudden death syndrom, iron chlyrosis (did I ever mention I can't spell?) and other problems that haven't been well addressed. They already have hit a brick wall on yield, seems breeders have gotten into adding GMO stuff to them rather than continuing to enhance yield. Added all together and soybeans have had their high point. If no breakthroughs on how they are bred or used, they are as good as they get and will receed some. I will say specifically they are _not_ the crop of the future, as your question implies. Soybeans will be a filler crop to rotate with other things.

Wheat feeds people, but it doesn't feed livestock. They have pest problems as well. Wheat will be king on the dry areas where corn doesn't grow. But it will be second to corn at least.

New crops? Agriculture in the USA is breaking into 2 groups - big efficient, huge, & cheap (corn, beans, wheat).

Or, small nitche farming, organic or a specialty crop that fills a local need. Or a farmers market approach, where you charge more for your product but spend as much time cultivating customers as you do cultivating your crop, and sell yourself as well as the product for a premium.

I believe that is agriculture of the future, but not one specific crop will emerge from that.

Corn is king. Should be for some time to come.

--->Paul

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• Re: OF: Can corn or soybeans be the crop of the fu 7720future 21:18:20 12/06/04 (2)
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    • Re: OF: Can corn or soybeans be the crop of the fu 7720future 09:05:25 12/07/04 (0)

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