Posted by super99 on December 14, 2008 at 04:43:57 from (75.107.181.99):
Trying to make plans for next year. I have 65 acres. This year I had 40 acres of corn and 21 acres of beans. I have been planting Libety Link corn and RR beans. It is a sandy hill farm, so Top yields are out of the question, but I know and accept that. I fertilize for 160 bu corn, have averaged over that 3 times in the last 6 years. Best beans I ever had was 41 bu/a, usually 30-35 by. Local alcohol plant pays a premium for non gmo corn. I have about 9500 bu of storage, my grain head is wore out, corn head is rough, but works better than grain head. I'm seriously thinking about going to all non gmo corn. I suppose I should plant the cornstalks to RR beans and the bean stubble to corn, I just didn't want to plant that many beans, but need to get rid of any volunteer corn. I know corn inputs will be higher, but with the advances in corn plant breeding, I feel there is the chance for much better returns on corn than beans. I raised 30-35 bu beans here 30 years ago when I farmed full time, and still get about the same, but corn yields have gone up considerably. I like to seed bean stubble with rye for a cover crop, and kill it in the spring, guess if I got the corn off in time I could still do that. The neighbors field across the road lays the same as mine, and has been in corn for 30+ years,so continous corn is not out of the question. I had 2 ton of lime spread on the whole farm last winter. I buy guaranteed revenue insurance. That's all of the information I can think of right now, what do you guys think? Chris
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