@braunfarm This chart is probably hard to read but I have made my own Haney Test Rx. This will be my first year running it. Will be interesting to see but it is a lot less than the traditional Rxs I was running.
@clintwfischer Coming from an agronomist. Next I would look at your “marginal” crop acres if you have any that are close to breakeven or are not making any money on row crop and put a fence around it if you can and buy some open heifers, breed them and start your cow herd there.
@clintwfischer I would say start with a feedlot and buy some feeder calves. With LRP it makes it pretty secure that you will at least breakeven. Plus you can use some of your corn from the row crop operation to “add value” to that corn by feeding it. Also manure makes a great fertilizer. This
@CowsnRedbirds All about who ends up with the dollar. Fats will make the money first then they will buy expensive feeders to fill the lots then the cow calf people will want to expand (I think) and bred heifers sellers will get the last of it. Each tier makes more money.
@ChrisK_Banded I will respectfully disagree with your statement. Crude Protien is a direct measure of Nitrogen in the Corn kernel. 9% CP / 6.25 CP to Nitogen % conversion= 1.44% Nitrogen in the corn grain. X 56lbs per bushel= .81 lbs N per bushel of corn. Now how much is supplied by soil is a ?
@FoulkShay Learned from the school of hard nocks here but DO NOT PUT MSO with Mesotrione you will light the corn up especially if it is hot or humid at all. Use Crop Oil with Meso it’s a lot less harsh. Also run MSO with Balance Flexx works 2x better when you do. Hope this helps.
The peak in showing animals was when you’d go down to the bottom barn and pick out the best you had and show it at the local fair
Buying animals to show is like me buying art to show and then winning the prize like it was my own
I’ll die on this hill
@MattHintz3@jasonmauck1 I honestly struggle with how my kids will do it if it does that again. Going to be impossible to buy land for them. I want to leave it better for them than I had it but I just don’t think it will be.
@MattHintz3@jasonmauck1 Did something like this for the ground my dad and father in law bought back in the 90s compared to the farm I bought this year and dad bought last year. Land is 4.5x higher than in the 90s and has had an 18.5% annual return not figuring cash rent or land income.