Posted by billonthefarm on December 14, 2008 at 05:53:37 from (205.161.2.144):
In Reply to: Crop Plans for 2009 posted by super99 on December 14, 2008 at 04:43:57:
I dont know where you are but I'm in the western part of central IL on nice black dirt and I feel the way you are thinking. Our corn yields in the last 5 years would average at least 200 bpa. across the entire farm operation. Bean yields are stagnant. We feel lucky to get anything over 50. This year was a freak and we had beans in the 70's but I dont expect that again. In the same five year period we have had fields of 230 bpa corn adjoining bean fields that struggle to get to 45 bpa. This being said, there are problems with continuous corn acres. It takes alot of money to plant corn. It is considerably more workload. It takes lots of tillage to make continuous corn to work here. You can add alot of days to harvest. Picking, hauling, drying, and storing a corn crop takes more planning than soybeans. Sometimes there is yield drag. The whole story about yield drag the first year but not after, that is not true, and if someone has some data on this I would love to see it. Volunteer corn could be a problem, it hasnt been a big problem, but if it is I cultivate those acres. Seems like hybrid selection is critical. Our corn on corn acres get some very expensive seed, lots of fertilizer, lots of tillage and I feel that is why those acres produce the bushells they do. We will plant more corn in 09 than we ever have. The only thing I question in your plan is whether non gmo will be the way to go. In my expirience the high price seed corn is well worth the cost, especially in a continuous corn rotation. Good luck bill
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