Corn has it's own level of doom at these prices.....as Mike spelled out in another thread when the bankers see red ink in sub 200 yields or even 180 which is still over national average............ corn acres have a problem.... Last years news... just unrecognized by usda.
Beans over 10 work and allow for cost controls. Cotton has a good insurance price..... Acres will go up ................ also last years news....
one other comment...... technology has driven the COP of corn higher and higher. (Along with the mandated increases in costs/enviro care insurance). those costs are going to be difficult to roll back(more likely will continue to increase) and on a world price stage, US producers are in trouble...... kind of like being a baseball free agent in 2018.
Have you attended your share of dicamba meetings this winter....... and gained the paper credentials available?
A whole lot of butt covering going on this winter ---- triple denim for everyone with a desk job or advice to sell. Looks to me like the producer is hung out to dry in the "responsibility" section.
Funny chuckle came to me in the middle of a lecture where a "too young to know" expect was commenting......Statement was..... "One of the best things you can do is apply a good residual herbicide to prevent the in season use of dicamba...." etc etc.
I had an instant flashback 30 years when in a similar administrative clamor to cover butt after atrazine turned up in groundwater contained the comment "One of the best things you can do to prevent atrazine leaching is to rely on more contact herbicide without residual issues" etc etc.
Paper shufflers....................butts are covered...
