A non-farmer asks - what is dent corn ??
So MO with this corn variety and the proper weed control, how much are you looking at per acre for corn?
For a farmer or a food plotter?
Aprox 85% of my corn seed sales here in EC MN is conventional corn now. Lots of farmers in my area have told Monsatan to stick their $100 a bag tech fee up their Arse. For food plotters that want to save money on seed corn, they can buy conventional as well. $70-90 verses $175-$275 a bag. Spraying with 1oz per acre of Impact herbicide does pretty well on both grasses and broadleaves. And for only $12/acre.
If 85% of your corn sales are conventional I would say you're not selling much corn. All the genetic traits may not be as important for the food plotter but it's a bigger deal on large acreage. I could make a case though, that food plotters need genetic traits to simplify the weed control part since time is often a big deal especially for folks who don't live close to their hunting property.
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And with CRP, you could make that with minimal inputs. Oofdah. So, is corn corn, or are other varieties better for ungulates? Is conventional going to be "better" with digestion, or will RR corn be the same? Shit, canamaize sounds good, but yield might suffer. I can get cheap corn through MDHA, RR stuff too, so I may just keep going that route and pound it with Urea.
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I'm missing a couple of things. How about soil amendments (PK) and how many pounds of Urea are you figuring (100)?Per acre, $30 Seed, $50 Fertilizer, $20 Herbicide.
I'm missing a couple of things. How about soil amendments (PK) and how many pounds of Urea are you figuring (100)?
What do you think the minimum amendments a food plotter can get by with and get reasonable yields? Currently I rotate soybean and corn with rye overseed.