One year of Rain in WEST is not same as Three or more in the EAST!

[cottonpicken]

Get what rook?

[riders2010]

So what is marginal land? This year are the what 9, 10 million acres that aren't seeded marginal land especially if they aren't seeded next year again, is it where it freezes usually more, drought prone areas, where is it? We are seeing that weather is the boss and dictates crop or not and income or not, funny some still don't see that. Equipment and technology can change all it wants to but at the end of the day weather patterns dictate the crop and your livelyhood. What worked last year doesn't neccessary mean works this year it's a guess at best, for example you can think your right on top of the game buying top of the line airdrill so much measured compaction, spacing, and exact seed depth, new worth what 150,000 plus, and this year some one next to you floats on canola heavy harrows and guess what next to nothing on either field, but in areas few miles over not quite as much rain the floating worked better row packers on the air drill didn't work, if the year would have been dry like predicted the floated stuff would likely not done as well as the air drill, so with that one example of variables and unpredictable weather patterns how do you classify marginal land?

[hedgehog]

i suppose it has to go on the likelihood of crop failure in say one year in five.