and so it begins....

[Mizzou_Tiger]

Wonder how many other supply balance sheets are off a decimal.......could be the first of many chinks in the chain......

Looks like that 96M is in trouble, we struggle for 94......but you guys already knew that......

Corn is coming up and all should be up in a few days......started soya on Wed and socking them in fast and furious......fyi switched about 20 percent corn acres to soya.....

Guess maybe those pics out of SA were not cherry picked after all........

[giolucas]

Do you think that there has been a lot of switching from corn to soybeans? 5, 10, 20%?

[nwiafmr]

I am starting to hear a quite a bit of switching from corn to soybeans in this area.....seems all at once everyone is seriously thinking about prices to come.....!    Had the last of my South America grown seed corn delivered yesterday.   My seed dealer said he is now busy switching seed.....

[Farmerjoe79]

I was all corn last year now I am going all beans this year. It just makes for an easier fall and the price is telling me to. So there will be 1700 acres of less corn. Glad I did not put any nitrogen on last fall:)

[Farmerjoe79]

There has to be a little bit of a price difference if you are going to take the risk of COC.

[JohnQ]

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@giolucas wrote:

Do you think that there has been a lot of switching from corn to soybeans? 5, 10, 20%?

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Just to lend a little balance..Here in C-EC IL things are/were so far ahead of schedule I've seen some NH3 go on corn stalks that I know was supposed to be going to beans. Got done with corn and decided they wanted a little more. Not me, but several others. Doesn't make sense to me.

That said, zero swithcing to soys here, in fact, the opposite!

[frogdoo]

I don"t think this story of grains has just started  recently.  The grain complex has been evolving to the point of now the last 6 or maybe 7 years.  The markets will do what they will.  The timing of pricing is always critical to the producer for revenue enhancement.  Cash flow is paramount to any p/l.  Any individual operation has there own set of parameters that need to be met.

[frogdoo]

well thats a dumb fiiing statement  too much tequila

[USA ProFarmer]

You would know as an MT alias,  since you only showed up yesterday.

[Jim Meade / Iowa City]

I went to a little COC this year.  One field is only to get the rotation where I want it.  The other is because the field is a little unfriendly to beans and I decided to try COC.  I was going to put in more COC but backed off in February to the rotation I plan now.

It's not only price that matters in my rotation plan.  It's also how it affects on-farm storage, input costs, agronomics and weed control.