Snake Oil & Other Services Companies' Futures

[bgmb]

Vr might work if you do it yourself but if you hire a kid to do it for you it probably wont work.

[bgmb]

Good post Klause, Always lots of slime balls trying to separate you from your money, always will be.

Shuffle them aside and forge ahead.

[Hopperbin]

For once I agree with klause. This year my yield monitor shows 50 in the drownd out slough and near 0 on the hilltop where all the crop is. Imagine making sense of a yield map around here. I dont agree with nitrogen leaching away around here either. My experience is if the crop did not use it its most likely still there. Shitty roots mean shitty crop. I actually had some of the best years on land that never produced. I mean was not farmed to potential before me. Well I usually say too much and klause will want clobber me.

[Hopperbin]

Perhaps the yield map will compensate for delay. I am really not there. One thing for sure is some day we will need to replenish more and more nutrients as we take them out. P n s etc are not the only nutrients being used.

[farmaholic]

I've sarcastically said that variable rating is for people who have everything else already...... ;-)

[Klause]

I would say bgmb hit the nail on the head.... prescription based seeding works if you know your land and are the one doing the prescriptions. I'd you hire someone like agri trend they look at a yield map and go off of that feed it into a computer program and generate a fert map.


Having said that our air drill is setup with rawson drives and a trimble FmX for variable rate.



Getting back on topic...

What will you cut first to save money? Snake oil type inputs? "Services" like agritrend/farmlink/etc?

[Hopperbin]

Dont have any snakeoil dealings so pretty hard to cut those.

[ado089]

Most cases you've already lost if youre using a yield map or satellite for VR. The here keys to Vr are water, water and water.

Back to the op...I cut out the expensive $75/ac canola in lieu of the cheapest ($35) stuff I could find. so far the cheap CL and RR are yielding the best. Only fungicide what needs it (disease triangle) and spoon fed fert as needed. My canola COP was down close to $50/ac this year and I'm not goving up anything compared to the neighbors yield wise.

[blackpowder]

Rob Saik is clever, forward thinking business man with a business model and great marketing skills.
I don't call it Agrispend for nothing. I've always been too small for that type of sales pitch. Take it for what it is. As with 90% of the prophylactics.
The future is dim except for the salesman for there will always be another product.
Agrispend however, is getting bigger every year.

[sumdumguy]

We are going to grow more Canaryseed next year. So cheap to grow and yielding 40 ish around here times $13.00 a bushel spells profit.