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bgmb, you'll miss a spot to sow if you don't move your house deck!!!

I'm wishing you luck with the cashing in part because that isn't the industry provider's idea. Their (not a wish list) facts are that we will make less and less per bushel into the future while they sell us seeds that produce more and more. I say, how stupid is that of us.

[oneoff]

All I would ask is that everyone be honest with themselves and their fellow farmers. Anyone who has to plant wall to wall; I won't be suprised and would understand the reasoning made in that decision. However if it is so you can really cash in because of the other moron farmers trying to cut back overproducing; then I hope someday those farmers and their ilk will be seen for what they are.
Those persons are the reason that farmers can not speak with one voice for their own collective good.

[oneoff]

Cotton you nailed it with your comments about summerfallow.

We all must remember that we have never made or lost it this early in the year. Yes, things look questionable at this point however there is just as much chance of things changing in our favor as against.

Our world continues to grow, we all need to eat, we consume all that we grow.

Ron - If you do summerfallow, think of the opportunity next year. You may save a bit on chem, however that SF field on my farm would be getting the same rates as a continuous cropped field. Our experience is that you always get more than 2 to 1 ratio of a good agronomic blend of fertilizer and chemical

[Ron]

Yes Saskfarmer99 I am not going to fallow to skimp on fert, more to straighten out my rotation without going to a CWB cereal. I have some compaction issues and weed issues that subsoiling and fallow should address (and let me do a better job in 2011).