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Re: Not Looking Good
My first comment on this thread is explained by MT. The next 4-6 weeks are critical, if not things have to be perfect or we got another mess.
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Re: Not Looking Good
That may be why I took the 14_ yield ?
May also be why I am still unpriced on any new crop and quite a % of last years Harvest
Be Aware of my long term motto....
PLANT IT
GROW IT
SELL IT
I do it in that order.... really against the grain of most experts these days. (pun intended)
As a disclaimer, I am an throw back to my upbringing in the Sandhills of Neb.
I am starting my 40th crop this year. I bought my first farm in the fall of 1972.
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Re: My motto too
Had an interest in planting a crop about 10 years before you Hobby and my own in '65 and there after.
I will and do sell some before harvest but I am very conservative about that.
I started before there was crop insurance. I have had the experience of working off the farm to help pay for a contract that could not be filled.
i have watched a good price in the spring for 50% of my crop be a poor price for 90% come harvest.
So like you I mostly grow it and then sell it
Has worked so far
And yes I also have a nice % of 2011 soys to sell and even larger % of 2011 corn. Just finished wheat last week.
0% priced on 2012 yet.
May not get the best price but I sleep well and no one would say I do not get enough to eat.
Will consider a small bit of wheat after it greens up.
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Re: Not Looking Good
That's not quite true BA. I bought a new Deere tractor last fall. They took 17.5% off sticker price and gave me almost retail for my trade-in.
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Re: Not Looking Good
Good info MT. Here in NW Ohio it was just drying out enough to maybe do something but the rains are back afer a fairly dry winter. What wheat there is is greening up and not looking too healthy. Also seeing bean stubble fields greening up with weeds, about 2 or 3 weeks earlier than normal.
We have to stay off our clay ground here when it's wet or ruin it for a year. I didn't get any manure hauled or fertilizer spread because of this. It just never froze deep enough.
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Re: Not Looking Good
Really nwobcw? I`m not doubting you, but was it a farm size tractor like 7260 and it wasn`t retail? Was it a multiple unit discount?
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Re: Not Looking Good
BA It was a 140HP FWA and no it wasn't a multiple tractor purchase and for the balance I got 0% for 4 years.
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