This was a bugger of a year. I didn't even try to plant any corn or beans. Oats? forget about that, I couldn't back the tractor up to the plow without rutting, so I never got it put on. Same story... July and August so dry that the grass burned to a crisp. Went to plow first week of september and the gauge wheel never touched the ground. turned over the top 4 inches some spots 6 inches with the plow, disc once, howard rotospike once, and the rain let loose. The last field I plowed was clay and made bricks. I tried 2 times over with a howard HB120 rotospike(like a 10 foot wide rototiller with spike bars instead of cutters) to break up the clods, but they just bounced off the spikes. I am surprised I got good seed-soil contact in that patch, as it was new bought FS seed at $16 per 50 lb. quite a gamble for my 35-40 bpa average. Especially true with the added tractor cost of having to go over the ground so many passes to get something reasonable to work with.
Did you get corn and beans in? For those guys that got it in, and are looking to make a decent yield, I think the payday might be worth it. I can't imagine corn dropping below $7 July 2012. There is a big oats shortage this year. I bet elevator prices hit $4 by April 2012. But then again, I am so small, I can't speculate well. Just what I see locally in the other small farms on this end of the state. Saw a guy list a WTB ad on craigslist for 15,000 bushel of oats around $3. Really REALLY wish I had them to give. With wheat hitting the $10 mark, it doesn't pay to put in oats, but if the market starts a nice climb, I may just make it a point to at least get a few acres in. Just more time to play with the combine! LOL
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