Agronomy or Genetics

[freewheat]

Weather for the lucky. Agronomics for us all.

If our parents used what we use now for inputs, yields would have been tremendous for us in the former "sure crop", used to be good rainfall areas.

[mbdog]

I think both...but agronomy showing more consistent results. I look back to 2013...there were some unreal yields that I cannot explain/rationalize or credit to agronomy. So was it the capacity/potential of genetics, or a freak of nature....like 3 well timed early frosts on the wheat. In most years, the stars always seem to line up on some fields...but these annual"one-off"? yields from those fields have steadily crept upwards thru time. Thinking good weather, agronomy and genetics all clicked....but difficult to replicate farm wide. No doubt mother Nature holds the trump weather card...throwing most theory out the window.
More consistent/bankable ROI...I say agronomy over genetics.

[sumdumguy]

There never has been more money invested in inputs nor research since time began. The fact that disease is becoming such a threat reinforces my theory that research is not hitting the mark. And in these wet years no-till is creating conditions conducive to disease and "possibly" flooding. Feeling grumpy this morning.