Farmers - I don’t waive my credentials around usually, but I’m a CCA and have been teaching and advising for almost a quarter century.
Trust me on this- Do NOT plant on Mother’s Day.
Plan accordingly.
Let me start by saying that NH3 is not cheap.
However, NH3 is currently well priced vs urea and UAN.
If you are going to need/use NH3 this spring (at least preplant), it is worth a conversation. Starting to feel like just a matter of time before NH3 reacts...higher.
We had 15 nights during grain fill stay above 70 degrees. Rule of thumb has been 1% loss per night. If you had 300 bu to lose at tassel, the overnight temps brought you to 255 by itself.
Urea values have jumped this morning on a pair of factors:
India is going to fall far short of their 2M ton goal.
Europe is buying.
That said, my POV is that we are better supplied today than a year ago yet prices are up significantly. Math isn't mathing today.
Yields will be extremely variable and it’s probably good to set expectations.
Didn’t spray fungicide: 😵😭
Low fertility + no fungicide: ☠️☠️☠️
Sprayed once: 👍🏼
Later/multiple apps: 💰😁
Corn with good disease tolerance: 😀
Corn with poor disease tolerance: 🤨
Beans: who knows
As anxiety inducing all this periodic rain is, yield potential remains high for both corn and soybean planted through mid-May. The forecast looks good! https://t.co/dfzRDzus2J
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