Soys are over half off in this part of the country. Our yields were a solid average. They exceeded my expectations since the bottom half of the plants had long inter-nodes and only 2 pods per node.
But the top half flowered after that critical 2" rain came. Good pod-set there and bigger pods.
Some areas were a bit higher, some lower - all depends on which side of the shower line you were on.
Sold about 3/4s so far, a better than average price for me. If I hadn't fed 15/bu/ac to the bear back in the spring, I would have had some of my highest prices ever. The bull has been much better to me lately! :-)
The IP premium of 4 bucks for SO3W4s (incl. 45 cents for stored on farm until March) is huge on the bottom line.
I know there are quite a few on here that do not think storage infrastructure should be the farmer's responsibility, but it pays very well here.
Today we are starting the base for a 27" x 5 or 6 GSI drying bin with a stirrator. I'm a low volume grain producer with low time pressure so plan to use a wood-fired burner for heating source. We got tonnes of firewood with the province-wide ash tree die-off.
Not sure if this is the right time to be adding infrastructure, but last year I left a lot of coin on the table by having to take wet, low bushel weight crop to the elevator.
How wrong could it be if it's 20% ROI?
But the top half flowered after that critical 2" rain came. Good pod-set there and bigger pods.
Some areas were a bit higher, some lower - all depends on which side of the shower line you were on.
Sold about 3/4s so far, a better than average price for me. If I hadn't fed 15/bu/ac to the bear back in the spring, I would have had some of my highest prices ever. The bull has been much better to me lately! :-)
The IP premium of 4 bucks for SO3W4s (incl. 45 cents for stored on farm until March) is huge on the bottom line.
I know there are quite a few on here that do not think storage infrastructure should be the farmer's responsibility, but it pays very well here.
Today we are starting the base for a 27" x 5 or 6 GSI drying bin with a stirrator. I'm a low volume grain producer with low time pressure so plan to use a wood-fired burner for heating source. We got tonnes of firewood with the province-wide ash tree die-off.
Not sure if this is the right time to be adding infrastructure, but last year I left a lot of coin on the table by having to take wet, low bushel weight crop to the elevator.
How wrong could it be if it's 20% ROI?
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