What’s your most profitable crop?

[farmaholic]

Land sale stuck in the S&P500 for 9 months. Didnt even have to get out of my chair.

Careful Jazz man, some of your S&P500 capital can evaporate and be gone for good while that dirty farmland will just lay there waiting to appreciate again. Mind you, long-term stock market charts and land price charts are probably close to mirror images of each other.

First world problems....

[jazz]

dirty farmland will just lay there waiting to appreciate again.

or depreciate, few takers on the land for sale around here $3500-4000 an acre.

feels very toppy especially with some commodity prices low.

[newguy]

Corn grazing crop.cost 300 an acre to seed produced 800 an acre in feed.

[woodland]

How does this fit into your plan for growing mostly cow feed in the future? Or did I misunderstand that?

We’ve started renting some more land and it’s on shares and they want it in grain not cow chow. Hard to find ground to buy or rent here so we work with what’s available. Keeping another 130 bred heifers so the cow numbers are still increasing but I think we might be maxed out on calving time help as my folks and our employee are in their mid sixties. Much easier moving grain with hopper bins and such than processing and calving cows I find.

This year was all barley and a good chunk of it will go through the cows as well. Rolling some that had a bunch of volunteer wheat in it to be fed. Cows still go crazy for it and no discounts either.


I freely admit I know very little and plans were made to be broken/changed. Made thousands silage bales out of necessity (thanks Ma Nature) when I didn’t need any feed for ourselves.

Coles notes version........... plans changed somewhat 😉

[jazz]

Coles notes version........... plans changed somewhat 😉

Careful for the upcoming war on meat and animal agriculture. Article about it in this weekends G&M.

[ShawnM]

1. Oats
2. Malt Barley





73. Soybeans

[mustardman]

We love experimenting too. Even more when they turn out. 👍

Did you do it along a main road to keep the neighbours guessing if you lost your marbles (like us) or hidden in the back somewhere?

Yes had people wondering what the hell it was. I was Thinking I should have put up a sign explaining

[woodland]

Yes had people wondering what the hell it was. I was Thinking I should have put up a sign explaining

Nah just leave them wondering. Like the time we baled greenfeed for bale grazing and kicked the bales out with no twine on 80 acres along the highway. That sure stirred things up for a while. 😉

[LEP]

How many bu a day of rolled barley are you feeding? I like the idea of the seed tank. We had a unit that we used back in the day of discer seeding.

I think this is a better use.

[LouiseCarduner]

2006-2017 (still have 2018 inventory)
Green Peas $117.19/acre
Pasteur Wheat (general purpose) $115.88
Durum $107.41 but I quit growing it due to fusarium
Canola $86.94
Hard Red Spring Wheat $49.96 (this is getting better each year)
Flax $40.26
Soybeans $36.5 (only 5 years)

These are profit numbers, after all expenses.

Interesting! Thanks for sharing your ROI.

[LouiseCarduner]

How about oats?

Apologies to those with crop out.

Here in my spot Barley for me in 2019.

Wheat frost affected cut yield as was canola.

Going foward into 20 maybe more barley acres mind you an get forwards for $295 on farm for wheat NOW for dec 20.

You guys got good cash prices looking at you in the eye for next harvest?

[woodland]

How many bu a day of rolled barley are you feeding? I like the idea of the seed tank. We had a unit that we used back in the day of discer seeding.

I think this is a better use.

Aiming for 5 pounds a piece so about 8,000 pounds a day. Haven’t calibrated it yet to figure out how much it puts out since everyone here has been under the weather but maybe tomorrow things can get back to normal ............. hopefully 😉