Friday Cocktail and end of week discussion 2025

[SASKFARMER]

I don't build big bins for you I build them to store my grain. 40 isn't a bumper but I still. cant achieve 100 bpa. Across the farm

[shtferbrains]

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6507317

He is definitely all in.

Ask him if you can come see it working?

DYODD

[goalieguy847]

Mm hmm me too. But 90 bushel sure isnt what i pencil in. Safe guess is 65 to 70 and at that value its alot easier to grow 50 bushel peas or 150 bushel oats at half the input cost....
or fabas.

If our dollar falls however that MAY help wheat values rise... but yeesh...
70 bushel wheat at 7.50 sure doesnt leave much on the back end....

[farmaholic]

I'm thinking if someone's wheat protein is 14.5% plus or stupid high like 16%...
At 13.5 you'd think there may be some yeild left on the table(???), but 16%+ px.... I'm thinking the yeild curve maxxed out for that growing season.... more inputs can't replace rain!
If Px is 12.... the crop grew more bushels than available nitrogen...

I guess my point is what's the point of some farms shooting for the stars when they can't get past the moon!

The limiting factor here is "usually" moisture, so why fertilize for 100 bushels per acre if 99 times out of 100 I know its not attainable.

Know your farm's limitations, calculate the risk and farm accordingly. Spending money on Grand Slam crops in alot of areas would be a business model for failure. I'll stick to a budget that results in base hits and keeps me in the game. ....and hope for afew home runs along the way.

[BTO780]

I'm thinking if someone's wheat protein is 14.5% plus or stupid high like 16%...
At 13.5 you'd think there may be some yeild left on the table(???), but 16%+ px.... I'm thinking the yeild curve maxxed out for that growing season.... more inputs can't replace rain!
If Px is 12.... the crop grew more bushels than available nitrogen...

I guess my point is what's the point of some farms shooting for the stars when they can't get past the moon!

The limiting factor here is "usually" moisture, so why fertilize for 100 bushels per acre if 99 times out of 100 I know its not attainable.

Know your farm's limitations, calculate the risk and farm accordingly. Spending money on Grand Slam crops in alot of areas would be a business model for failure. I'll stick to a budget that results in base hits and keeps me in the game. ....and hope for afew home runs along the way.

Well said!!

There are certain guys who need to buy a bigger size shirt for their chest size. For those guys it’s never enough. Brag in one sentence, complain in the next. These guys need a BIG fix of reality. Take it the way you want, my feelings won’t get hurt. Maybe for once be happy give thanks and actually mean it.

At the end of the day a 100 bu crop will be no different then 10 bu.
Maybe think about a few things.

[TASFarms]

I'm thinking if someone's wheat protein is 14.5% plus or stupid high like 16%...
At 13.5 you'd think there may be some yeild left on the table(???), but 16%+ px.... I'm thinking the yeild curve maxxed out for that growing season.... more inputs can't replace rain!
If Px is 12.... the crop grew more bushels than available nitrogen...

I guess my point is what's the point of some farms shooting for the stars when they can't get past the moon!

The limiting factor here is "usually" moisture, so why fertilize for 100 bushels per acre if 99 times out of 100 I know its not attainable.

Know your farm's limitations, calculate the risk and farm accordingly. Spending money on Grand Slam crops in alot of areas would be a business model for failure. I'll stick to a budget that results in base hits and keeps me in the game. ....and hope for afew home runs along the way.

If moisture is the limiting factor quit using fancy types of acid treated phos (map,dap,power rich,alpine,mes. They mess the water cycle of the plant up. Cut down large salty Nitrogen applications. In biological world pulses are poor nitrogen fixers compared to cereals.

[13stripe]

Have a field I was going to seed to alfalfa, seeded winter wheat with no fertilizer in 2018, yield and protein indicated no yield loss, so kept seeding low input letting crop tell me when I should seed alfalfa. This last year just under 40 bushels adjusted for bushel weight of 65 pounds with 15.3 protein. Seeded back to winter wheat with no fertilizer again.

[SASKFARMER]

Yes for wheat 70 is the goal if it hits better that's ok also.

For canola its 50 and if it goes that's fine.

Peas we have out lived there life and disease is bad. So every 8 years works but excess rain in June hurts.

Malt paid good but you can't do the whole farm.

Its a tight year for sure.

But if you don't have goals why farm?

[fjlip]

Hearing MaltEurope will only buy Copeland in fall 2025 ...the old low yielder that falls FLAT!

Wheat had more potential than 70 last year but HEAT took bushels, but left 13.5 PRT.

Same with Canola, 15 bu/acre under 2023 here, almost $200 acre less gross.

Be really bad time this year to try sell equipment to farmers or auction your farm...unless something changes to rebound #'s.

[SASKFARMER]

Yep.guys are holding back and stopping all. purchases.

Line up in Yorkton today just posted its long