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bjrogg:
Thanks Bob. I’d love to see you take her for a trip. She really does look like new.
Bjrogg
bjrogg:
We did finish wheat yesterday. It is such a relief. It was all good quality and our yields were very respectable.
Today I hauled beet lime for our fields. We use limestone in the process of refining sugar. The limestone is dissolved and broken down into a fine powder that is a bi product. It is very well suited for use on our fields for keeping our ph levels correct.
Out of the wheat line and in the lime line. Went pretty good. I got two loads today. Be hauling more tomorrow
Bjrogg
bjrogg:
The beans are growing like crazy. Here’s some of our black beans. A few “pin beans” just starting to grow.
Bjrogg
Pat B:
Brian, is there anything different about the corn market this year? I noticed our farmers are mostly growing soybeans instead of their usual corn. Just from road observations looks like about 75% soy to corn instead of the other way around.
bjrogg:
--- Quote from: Pat B on July 29, 2025, 11:33:09 am ---Brian, is there anything different about the corn market this year? I noticed our farmers are mostly growing soybeans instead of their usual corn. Just from road observations looks like about 75% soy to corn instead of the other way around.
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I can’t say anything for certain Pat. I’m afraid the price for both is pretty sad. We sold Pioneer Seed corn for 50 years. We haven’t grown corn in the past three years now. The only corn I plant is sweet corn in my garden and about 150 acres for my son which feeds his cattle.
Since we reduced acres we don’t really plant many of the conventional crops. We do plant wheat, but it’s kinda a special wheat that is mostly grown just in this area. We do plant a few soybeans , but mostly just on headlands and wedge rows in our sugar beet fields.
It’s hard saying what the reason is for the switch to soybeans in your area. Maybe a new crushing plant in the area? Maybe they didn’t have inputs bought and were afraid tariffs might make inputs hard to buy? Corn is more expensive to grow. Especially in our area were it doesn’t generally dry down naturally and needs to be dried at bin setup (which we don’t have). The best way to get money from our corn is to harvest it as silage and high moisture corn, put it in a bunker silo and feed it to cattle. Cattle like our cooler climate and generally do well here.
Bjrogg
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