| Re: We made to the end of the week chat. 18 October 2013 |
Subject: Re: We made to the end of the week chat. 18 October 2013 by Ultraman on 2013/10/18 14:05:38 The S word is a very bad word.....I am banning it from my vocabulary.....I hope we don't get any....we have not even had a killing frost here yet.... Yesterday I rode in a combine which cost about 250K which was guided by GPS and the moniters were also mapping the fields for yield and we were running 270 to 290 with an occasional hit over 300 bushels....when I got in this game back in the mid 70's we were trying to consistantly hit 150 bushels of corn per acre. Then we went to 180's then in the 1990's we tried to hit 200 bushels and its gone up from there...... What has made all the difference?....Better living thru chemistry......better weed and insect control and genetics. Take away the limiting factors and the corn plant will pay you back. The corn plan has the potential for 600 bushels per acre in a perfect world and what we do or don't do to it effects the outcome....Your Guru agronomy lessen for today.... Ok let's get it in gear and push onward.....have a nice well rounded day Gurus.. |
