USDA approves new seed

[Mobetter]

Just got a yield report from our trading company.

Subject: YIELD corn Christian County Illinois (s.c.)
9 miles southwest of Taylorville, IL
160 acres 257 dry bushels over the scales
Good test weight, average moisture was right at 21%


Subject: YIELD corn Illinois - e central and central
50 miles north of Champaign , 220 bu per acre on mediocre soil vs 170 ly.
10 miles west of Springfield, 260 and 280 bu per acre.


Subject: YIELD corn central Iowa (Ogden, Waukee, Indianola)
Ogden, IA 80 acres 227 bpa, about 30 bpa above average.

Waukee, IA 400 acres combined and averaging 240 bpa, about 50 bushels above
10 year average and 35 bushels better than the yield checks were.

Indianola, IA just opened his first field, it is averaging 240 so far. Ten year average is probably 180.
Last year it was 225. He thinks it will probably be his best corn.


Subject: YIELD beans Cental IA Grundy County
50 Acres 1.9 Maturity
62.9 BPA Beans were short. Producer thought low 50’s last week


Subject: YIELD corn & beans Illinois/Indiana border (Paris, IL-Dana Indiana)
Around Dana, Indiana and Paris, ILL
Corn 190-270 avg so far 230 would say 40 better than last year
Beans 60-80 avg so far 70 would say 15 better than last year

[JABIII]

I think the last USDA CR said 176 average across the nation. Might bump up some with those reports.

[Mobetter]

A quick check shows Illinois elevator at -.30CU, so around $2.96/bu.

$2.96bux257bpa=$760.72/ac. Good money, but probably not near what the guy thought he would get on his best crop ever.

[ESSO82]

I am already preaching placing there new technologies in the right places and marking the fields. I go to quite a few calls a year of cotton and beans being burnt to pieces because the sprayed the wrong chemical on the field.

[JABIII]

ESSO, we just turbo tilled and have a growing (pun intended) problem with cockleburr spreading like wildfire. At this point, how would you recommend we handle it?

[quackaddict]

I can send you my Springer for a few days once they start heading out... she'll have every damn one of them attached to her. It'll really cut down on your future crops.