Corn is it the next Crop for Saskatchewan!

[Daylate]

Never grow more than you can afford to loose sf3. I tried 40 acres last year. It worked. plan on possibly missing the remembrance day service to combine it. We dried it down and sold it to terra grain at belle plain for 7.10 a bu and net bushels were 103. Seemed like it was going 115ish off the combine.
anyhow its tricked us into trying a quarter this year. like everything else its off to a slow start but hoping to harverst it again.fun to grow and harvest though.
We're a half hour north of Strasbourg. Rep grew some too with similar results.
and ya im one of them dumb asses with corn and durum on the farm. I love durum, but regardless our days are numbered for growing durum up here, and for years ive been trying to find an alternative to wheat. Have also grown soys 2 different years. wont grow them again till wheat is $4 and Urea is $800 again. Then it pays to put in soys. (some years its not how much you make, its how little you lose,lol)

[Daylate]

soys went 28bu the first year and 25 the next, so just break even this was 3 and 4 years ago. I grew then on CL canola ground, I know wheat stubble is ideal but I will never replace canola with soys around here, just wheat. and with these wheat prices it doesn't pay here.

[hobbyfrmr]

I agree with daylate. There was a stretch of years
from 99 to about 2005 where I would plan my
farm budgets around losing the least amount of
money instead of planning to make the most
profit. That's why I am not a gazillionare!
I hope those days are well behind me.
I swore off wheat for about a decade, oats and
canola paid the bills. I just started back onto
wheat due to better prices.
I see the google farmer next door is growing some
corn. There must be something good about it, he
is very successful and open to change.
My choice for diversification is hempseed. So far,
so good. Probably because I am horribly
inefficient and seed in June!