What’s your most profitable crop?

[Guest]

Sounds a lot like here. Only got 10% of the hay baled dry and sold while the rest is long white sausages scattered across the countryside. The silage bales will become cow chow after the corn runs out and be sold as yearlings in the next year or two for “decent” money hopefully.

Best crop would have been the propane delivery outfits. They’ve been crazy busy for the past four years in our area. Cost us 40 cents/bu for propane and power on every single bushel this year. Although next year they’ll have one less stop to make since we just bought a bigger used dryer and will be bringing nat gas into run it. Only nice thing about wet ugly harvesting is the air filters and rads can go the season without being blown out. 😉

Can you say how much gas will cost?

[Oliver88]

Canary seed and hi acid ****seed for us, yellow peas right up there also

How does Hi Acid compare to Nexera?

[Sheepwheat]

1. Lambs by FAR. NOT remotely even close.
2. Oats

[mustardman]

This year our Flax/Chickpea intercrop netted the best return.
First year experimenting. Flax received N from chickpeas so only applied phos for chickpeas.

[Misterjade9]

1-canaryseed
2-oats

[jazz]

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

[woodland]

Can you say how much gas will cost?

$8k since the bins are close to a bigger line which is great. The gas coop says we can easily get 10 million btu and maybe more. The dryer is 8 million and we’d like a gas gen set for running everything since power is retarded for an install even though there’s three phase line at the driveway. Just have to figure out if that option can work or not.

Looking forward to piecing this puzzle together. 😎

[AlbertaFarmer5]

$8k since the bins are close to a bigger line which is great. The gas coop says we can easily get 10 million btu and maybe more. The dryer is 8 million and we’d like a gas gen set for running everything since power is retarded for an install even though there’s three phase line at the driveway. Just have to figure out if that option can work or not.

Looking forward to piecing this puzzle together. 😎

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

[woodland]

This year our Flax/Chickpea intercrop netted the best return.
First year experimenting. Flax received N from chickpeas so only applied phos for chickpeas.

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?

[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