Re: grain yields

Posted by paul on December 09, 2015 at 16:41:05 from (76.77.197.114):

In Reply to: grain yields posted by blue water massey on December 09, 2015 at 12:18:19:

Corn yields go from 50 to 230 depending on the dirt and fertility and rainfall you have. You aren't doing well if you can't get 150bu corn here, and it is what pays the bills here.

Soybeans yield 60-70 bu an acre a county away from here, but in my neighborhood we have high ph soils, and clay and peat and wet, soybeans are not very happy in this dirt and we are tickled to get over 40bu in my neighborhood.

Folks around here can get 60bu oats on a hobby, or 95 bu oats if they really try, but up north in Canada they talk about 150bu......we are too hot here for oats, and it live in Minnesota.......

Wheat we are tickled pink to break 30 bu wheat, in the wheat growing areas they expect 60 and over.

Don't do the fertilizer and weed control right, and cut any number I mention in half. If farming were easy, everyone would do it. A lot of folks that start up a small farm as a hobby struggle some, so that 1/2 of normal might be something you need to plan for for 3-4 years.

With the high prices we had the previous 5 years, I would be suspicious of any ground that hasn't been planted to a crop the past few years. It likely is too wet, too dry, too shallow, or some other problem that keeps it from being really farmed......

If you come from a factory background, farming is 'different'. You can't just do this and this and that and get the same output anywhere. You need to tell is your climate, rainfall, type of dirt, and a few other things, and then plant the crops that fit your conditions. If wheat does well, corn won't. If corn yields really well, you'd be foolish to plant wheat. Soybeans love some dirt types, and hate my dirt types.

Oats and rye and wheat like dry dirt. Corn can do well if its a little wet but doesn't dry out so bad in early fall.

You need to build up your dirt with the right nutrients, from manure or fertilizer, but you need it balanced to feed the crop you are trying to grow.

You need to fit your farming to what you have.

Even on a hobby, you get over $500 an acre invested in a crop, you need to do it right and have a plan and not make too many mistakes that cost big $$$$.

Paul

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