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Farm client showing me the yield map today.

Can you see where the manure was applied? …

Here’s what’s cool! The manure was applied 20 years ago!

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Harvest Action! Small scale farming at its best. Almost 3500 plots this year with 99+% success rate from seeding to harvest. Great job team!

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G x M x E =Yield

Many (all) saleable varieties will yield 35-40bu. If you’re in an area that has a 30yr average precip of 6”, saving a few bucks on seed Might be a good strategy.

Opportunity cost of hitting a year with 10+” could be massive.

You have control on G & M

Vegas odds…

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@bscomet22 I would agree. More than five years worth of testing is incrementally more valuable. Sampling in the right spot also 🔑

Curious why you’re not going down to 24”? We don’t go deeper than 24 due to liability.

I’m glad you got your top depth right 😉

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@JasonSchley Don’t forget sulphur 😉 The easiest Macro-nutrient to manage.

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Our career nutrient making the news again.

Phosphorus is the nutrient of biggest concern long term.

We might have 100’s, even 1000’s of lbs in the soil, but I still haven’t seen any system that truly unlocks it for plant availability.

We still need lbs applied.

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Assuming corn and DAP prices do not change substantially, the ratio between them will set all-time high's for November and December...and it will not be a close 2nd.

Still hard to see phosphate dropping in price substantially.

Hoping corn improves/moves higher.

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@DaleSteele11 Question remains - what’s the most N (actual) applied you’ve seen? I’ve applied 185’ish on hybrid rye. Yielded great, but slow going.

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What's the most actual N you've ever applied to irrigated barley? Looking at early soil tests on pivots with NO N left in soil. With respectable yield targets, we're talking 160'ish lbs/ac N...

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This is why AI will have a hard time replacing experience in real world agronomy.

There’s no other way to cut it - N makes yield. Testing in the spring is exponentially less money than a critical nitrogen application and in season nitrogen on Irrigation allows some flexibility & risk mitigation.

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Another career nutrient post ❤️

You can’t be green if you’re in the red - credit @HebertKristjan

We’ve embarked on a 6-year Phosphorus study comparing check, multiple different P sources by spend and by rate, vs Cadillac treatment.

I’ll bet lunch that check wins the $ race yr1&2.

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Building soil P is expensive. The math and the field don’t agree.

Just jumped in the combine helping the family farm . Bean yields around here have been pretty good. Can’t speak for everybody, but overall solid. Quality’s a little off.

I was listening to a video saying phosphorus needs to be 50 ppm, preferably 100. We just finished a field that made over 60. Around here most APHs are 43 to 45. Mother Nature gets the credit. She did the work.

That field tested 3 to 10 ppm phosphorus. Do you really believe another 10, 12, 15 bushel was sitting there just because the soil test number was higher?

I ran the math with Grok on building this ground to 50. 11-52-0 at $1,152 a ton is $1.11 a pound of P₂O₅. University data (Iowa State, Minnesota, SDSU, Tri-State) says it takes about 16 to 20 pounds of P₂O₅ to move a Mehlich-3 test 1 ppm. From 5 ppm to 50, that’s roughly $900 an acre on paper. At pH 7.2, calcium ties a lot of that up. Figure 40 percent fixation and you’re closer to $1,500 an acre before you even count crop removal working against you every year.

Then ask how many bushels that takes to break even. Chasing that ppm, I’d go broke — or I’d be better off buying more land.

We foliar fed this field several times. No check strip, so I can’t prove it paid. I believe it did. Exudation drives phosphorus uptake, stimulation and plant health drives exudation. The more you stimulate the crop, the more phosphorus gets in the plant. - both are important soil P and Uptake. Can’t spend it all just to get it applied to the soil.

I’m not anti-phosphorus. I want P in the field. I’m anti-losing money chasing a magical ppm.

South Dakota cash beans are about $12.40 tonight. At that price, $1,200 an acre is 97 bushels. $2,000 is 161 bushels. Spread over five years, you need an extra 19 to 32 bushel every single year just to get your money back. Not once. Every year.

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@DaveyJohn_676 Solid!

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Phosphorus - career nutrient.

Most fertilizers should have a multi-year mentality. Most farmers could absolutely skip phosphorus & not have detrimental effect.

Lots of sales people not asking for soil tests, recommending small dose P.

Buyer beware.

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@chinookag Can pick those tests out from a township away! One of the most
Mismanaged crops from a nutrient perspective is forages.

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Post harvest glyphosate window, here we come! -4.4C this morning. Great forecast to get some excellent perennial weed control.

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@bscomet22 @JBMcAdams Does anyone leave it or does the frost window / green stem issue / heavy crop force the hand to spray or swath?

I prefer swathing. Works every time and anchors nicely if cut high enough, but farmers seem to lean towards spraying as they can do way more ac/day.

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@TimNeale1 I believe wholeheartedly that compaction is a yield limiting influence. I also believe that CTF would be the pinnacle of precision agriculture to benefit Soil biology and nutrient efficiency. In our 🇨🇦 geography, many people think a freeze/thaw cycle, cures it. I don’t think so.

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After 10 days of garbage harvest weather, the difference in “Pod Shatter” genes is really showing up… some are WAY better than others.

In other news, all l Ethrel PGR comparisons are clear cut winners (again). I wish that product was easier to use and scale.

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This has been a very long cycle over the past 10 years, especially. I’m hopeful that there are things we will discover that will help the productivity of our soils.

I am quite convinced that how we are farming today is not what we’re going to be able to do 40-50 years from now.

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Since 2016, California’s Healthy Soils Program has spent $162 million to improve soil health and sequester carbon.
7 field trials of the program's impacts: "short-term impacts on soil health were limited."
Are we in the Trough of Disillusionment?
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What other good apps are out there for mileage tracking? I find this increase a bit steep in a world where software costs are going the other way? @MileIQ

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One common theme when I tour around Aussies - “Your farms are doing a great job, but your fence rows, not so much!”

Majority of our problems come from the field boundary. This is great management 👇🏻

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Prevention the key with managing glyphosate resistant rye grass on fence-lines as one pass contact herbicide options struggle for a high % of control. Pre break of the season residuals doing an amazing job keeping fence lines spotless vs alternate post Em glufosinate options 🔥