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A supplement of the Dodge City Daily Globe
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Day highlights importance of agriculture
By Gloria Tucker
Dodge City Daily Globe
K
ansas celebrated National
Agriculture Day on March 15.
National Agriculture Day is a
day to recognize and celebrate
the abundance provided by agriculture.
Every year, producers, agricultural
associations, corporations, universities,
government agencies and countless
others across America join together to
recognize the contributions of agriculture.
“Agriculture is our No. 1 industry in
Kansas, especially in Ford County,” Sheryl
MacNair, Ford County Farm Bureau agent,
said. “Without ag in this area, there would
not be as many other types of jobs such
as restaurants. Whether you produce
food, fiber and fuel or work in another
profession you will be able to directly link
your job back to the farm. It’s important to
recognize the biggest industry and driver
of the economy.”
An upcoming event celebrating
agriculture is the “Day on the Farm” on
April 8. All fourth grade students in Ford
County are invited to attend the event at
the Western State Bank Expo Center.
“There are numerous ways to volunteer too,” she said. “You can help with
preplanning such as packaging educational materials for the kids to helping
at the event by serving food, aiding the
teachers and presenters to setup and
cleanup. Last year we had 525 kids
attend.”
The Agriculture Council of America
hosts the campaign on a national level.
According to the ACA, for National Agriculture Day every American should:
1. Understand how food, fiber and
renewable resource products are produced.
2. Value the essential role of agriculture in maintaining a strong economy.
3. Appreciate the role agriculture
plays in providing safe, abundant and
affordable products.
4. Acknowledge and consider career
opportunities in the agriculture, food, fiber
and renewable resource industries.
“Agriculture provides almost everything we eat, use and wear on a daily
basis,” the ACA said in a press release.
“But too few people truly understand this
contribution. This is particularly the case
in our schools, where students may only
be exposed to agriculture if they enroll
in related vocational training. By building awareness, the Agriculture Council of
America is encouraging young people to
consider career opportunities in agriculture.”
The Agriculture Council of America
is an organization composed of leaders
in agriculture, food and fiber communities dedicated to increasing the public
awareness of agriculture’s vital role in
our society. The Agriculture Council of
America and the National Agriculture Day
program was started in 1973.
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K-State’s Beef Cattle Institute to host International
Symposium on Beef Cattle Welfare
K-State Research and Extension
T
he Beef Cattle Institute at
Kansas State University is set
to host the 5th International
Symposium on Beef Cattle Welfare (ISBCW) in Manhattan, Kansas at the
K-State Alumni Center on June 8-10, 2016.
Held in one of the world’s leading beef
cattle production regions, the event will
provide a valuable opportunity for beef
industry leaders and influencers to learn,
gain fresh insight and actively participate
in addressing beef cattle welfare.
Cattle producers, processors,
retailers, government officials, non-governmental organization officials, animal
scientists, veterinarians, students, and
others interested in emerging welfare
issues facing the beef cattle industry are
encouraged to attend.
The ISBCW organizing committee has
identified a line-up of renowned speakers from the U.S., Canada and Europe
with diverse perspectives and expertise
on industry issues. A few of the featured
speakers include:
• Temple Grandin, Colorado State University
• Joe Stookey, University of Saskatchewan
•Jeff Carroll, USDA-ARS, Texas Tech
University
• Ed Pajor, University of Calgary
• Bernadette Early, Teagasc Animal &
Grassland Research and Innovation
Centre in Ireland
• Karen Schwartkoff-Genswein, Agri-Food
Canada
• Ron Gill, Texas A&M University
• Joe Regenstein, Cornell University
• Mike Apley, Kansas State University
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current and future welfare concerns of the
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create a scientific perspective to address
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3-month forecast good
for farmers
NWS believes weather favorable for crops
By Roger Bluhm
Dodge City Daily Globe
P
ending severe weather, farmers
might be happy with weather
predictions for the next three
months.
The National Weather Service Climate
Prediction Center believes weather
temperatures should be normal and
precipitation will be above normal for the
period April-June.
“A lot of what we are predicting
is based on current conditions,” said
National Weather Service meteorologist
and seasonal forecaster Daniel Collins.
“Right now, El Nino is dominating the
Pacific Ocean conditions.
“We take that weather pattern, along
with ocean variables and statistical
information to come up with a 3-month
forecast and a seasonal forecast.”
Collins said he -- along with a team of
other specialists -- work with many different models to form a forecast.
“We have forecast models which
come in from many different places,” he
said. “We go through them each before
anything else.
“For instance, we have two models
which came in with what we believe was
flawed data. We believe they have Atlantic
ocean temperatures to cold, which can
affect the average and base line for a
prediction.”
After models are evaluated a baseline
model is formed and then historical and
statistical information is added, creating
the forecast.
“Unlike meteorologists who look at
conditions and fronts going through, we
don’t predict specific weather events,”
said Collins. “However, we will predict a
3-month statistical probability for temperature and precipitation.”
Collins stressed people will still need
to pay attention to local 7-day forecasts to
be aware of severe weather brewing.
“We do nothing with severe weather,”
he said. “We don’t predict it at all.
“Farmers obviously need to be alert
for severe weather.”
Farmers in Kansas especially have to
be aware of severe weather in the spring.
Meteorologists at the National Weather
Service office in Dodge City have warned
of severe weather in spring being the
most dangerous as changing weather
patterns and fronts moving through can
create severe weather in different locations.
In southwest Kansas, severe weather
means thunderstorms, which can produce tornadoes, hail, flash flooding and
dangerous lightning.
“Lightning can be the most underrated danger,” said Ray Burgert, a
meteorologist with the Dodge City NWS
office last spring. “Lightning can flash 10
miles away from where it’s raining.
“If you can hear thunder, you can be
hit by lightning. People don’t realize how
dangerous lightning can be.”
Burgert said the key is to always be
aware of the weather.
“We take things for granted,” he said.
“In this day and age, an app for your
phone or a weather radio can save your
life.
“Email alerts or text alerts often go off
to let people know of dangers. The biggest
thing is to make sure you’re paying attention to what is going on with the weather
at all times and to remember that things
can change in a hurry.”
Being aware is good for severe
weather, but being aware of expected
conditions is also key.
“For farmers, the Climate Prediction
Center can be a good tool,” Collins said.
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Sorghum Industry Establishes
Coordinated Research and
Marketing Program
Special to the Globe
B
eginning April 1, 2016, the Sorghum Checkoff, Kansas Grain
Sorghum Commission and
Kansas State University (KSU)
will enter into a cooperative agreement to
increase grain sorghum productivity and
expand markets by 2025.
Coordinated efforts for the Collaborative Sorghum Investment Program will
operate through the Center for Sorghum
Improvement at KSU. However, results will
impact sorghum producers throughout
the country.
“After more than a year of planning
and orchestrating, the Collaborative
Sorghum Investment Program is now
a reality,” said Florentino Lopez, Sorghum Checkoff executive director. “This
program will serve as a platform aimed at
reaching the Sorghum Checkoff’s mission
of investing checkoff dollars to increase
producer profitability and enhance the
sorghum industry. This program helps
by aligning many resources to meet the
needs of sorghum farmers throughout the
U.S.”
The program will aim to increase the
average national yield from 61.95 bushels
per acre to 100 bushels per acre by 2025
by funding research in beneficial areas
such as over-the-top grass control and
yield improvements involving breeding
program developments and field-level
management techniques. Long-term
research areas such as seed innovation
and information management will also
be addressed, including the development
of new and novel genetic traits and the
development of research and genomics
databases.
The program will work to develop
marketplaces, attributes, qualities
and other factors capable of increasing demand to 1.25 million bushels of
sorghum by 2025. This will include the
expansion of international markets,
domestic food use, livestock feeding,
ethanol production, specialty products
and more. In addition, tools, information
and other factors will be developed in an
effort to decrease the trading discount
of sorghum to corn from 4.6 percent to 2
percent by 2025.
“This agreement will provide a valuable investment in long-term sorghum
research,” said Stephen Bigge, Kansas
Grain Sorghum Commission chairman.
“Sorghum producers will benefit from the
advancement of sorghum technology for
many years to come.”
Support for this program will total
$4.8 million, consisting of a $2 mil-
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lion investment from the Kansas Grain
Sorghum Commission and $2 million
from the Sorghum Checkoff, both made
in annual payments of $200,000 for 10
years, as well as an $800,000 investment
from KSU.
The resources will be used to hire a
managing director of the program in Manhattan, Kansas, provide capital for center
activities and research funding, and build
the Center for Sorghum Improvement
Excellence Fund for long-term support
of sorghum initiatives. Overseen by an
advisory committee, the managing director will actively seek additional funding
for projects that serve the objectives of
this program and to extend the life of the
program beyond 2025.
“We look forward to implementing
this agreement to the benefit of the entire
sorghum industry,” said John Floros, KSU
Dean of the College of Agriculture and
director of K-State Research and Extension. “We are pleased to leverage our
resources with this new program.”
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Preventing mycotic abortions
in pregnant cattle
Information to help protect the cow herd and
mitigate monetary loss this calving season.
By Connor Orrock
K-State Research and Extension
M
ycotic abortions, or fungal
abortions, are often
sporadic in cattle. As
producers determine the
need to provide supplemental feeds to
their calving cow herd, they must also
be aware of the causes of these often
mysterious mycotic abortions, as well
as how to diagnose them.
“In one week, we had three different
abortion submissions from three different herds in Kansas. The diagnosis
was definitive, and it was due to mold
that infected the dam and then crossed
over to the fetus,” said Gregg Hanzlicek,
director of production animal field
investigations for the Kansas State
Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory,
speaking of a recent situation his team
encountered.
While there are hundreds of molds,
Hanzlicek said two are the most typical
in cattle abortion cases: Aspergillus
and Mucor. They are typically found
throughout the environment, but they
are especially common in cattle feed,
hay, silage and can be found in wet
byproducts.
“One of the ways a heifer or cow
can become infected is if they ingest
the mold,” Hanzlicek said. “However, we
think the primary way cattle become
infected is by breathing into the respiratory system the mold spores that are
in the feed.”
If the cow cannot combat the mold
with immune responses when it enters
her system, it will get into the bloodstream and can eventually enter the
placenta, he explained. The placenta
supplies nourishment to the fetus.
Once the mold enters the placenta,
the placenta will most likely become
inflamed, which can result in the death
of the fetus. The cow recognizes the
fetus as dead, so she aborts.
Hanzlicek said mycotic abortions
are often mistaken for other types of
abortions. Most abortions in cattle
occur in either the middle or last trimester, and mycotic abortions likewise
typically occur around six to eight
months of pregnancy.
Molds like high humidity, so they
grow well in relatively wet settings,
he said. They can grow at different
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Some typical growing sites include
hay that is put up too wet, corn silage
or sorghum silage that is not packed
well, and wet byproducts.
Signs of mycotic abortions
Mycotic abortions will typically lead
to just one or two abortions in the herd,
Hanzlicek said. But there have been
cases of up to 10 percent of the herd
aborting due to mold.
“Unfortunately, there aren’t any
clinical signs prior to the abortion,” he
said. “The heifer or cow that has the
mold doesn’t act sick; she just aborts
the fetus. A small percentage of the
aborted fetuses will have either red or
white circular lesions on the skin. The
white lesions look similar to ringworm.
If we see that, we know mold was
involved in the abortion. Typically the
skin lesions are not seen, however, and
the only way to diagnose is by sending
in samples to a veterinary diagnostic
lab.”
If producers are interested in submitting samples to a lab, they should
contact their veterinarian, he said.
Veterinarians are aware of what types
of samples should be collected for an
abortion diagnostic workup.
“For veterinary diagnostic labs,
one of the most important tissues that
we can get,
regardless
of the cause
of abortion we are
concerned
with, is the
placenta,”
Hanzlicek
said. “It is
essential for
most diseases, but
especially for
mycotic abortions, that an
appropriate
segment of
placenta be
sent in with the other tissues.”
“One of the things we will look at is
the fluid in the stomach of the calf, and
if we find mold, it gives us an indication that it might be the reason for
the abortion,” he added. “However, we
cannot tell if the mold occurred before
or after the abortion. The only way to
determine it is to microscopically look
at the placenta. If we find mold hyphae
growing in the placenta, then we know
for sure mold was associated with the
abortion.”
Abortions due to mold are not
contagious, Hanzlicek said, so a mold
infection cannot be spread from
animal to animal. There are no medical
treatment options to prevent mycotic
abortions.
Preventative actions in feeds
The key to preventing mold in hay
is to put the dry hay up so it stays dry,
Hanzlicek said. It is imperative to keep
the moisture down so mold does not
grow in the hay. If the hay is moldy, producers can have that forage tested to
see how much mold is actually present.
“Many animal feeds naturally have
around 10,000 mold organisms per
gram of forage,” he said. “Once we start
to be able to see the mold, there are
many times around a million or more
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organisms per gram.”
Producers can dilute the mold in
hay, Hanzlicek said. One way is to feed
the moldy hay along with non-moldy
hay, which requires a mixer wagon.
Another way to avoid mold infection in the cow herd is to feed moldy
forage in the open, where the ventilation will allow for the mold to blow
away. Producers could also grind moldy
hay to disperse the mold; however,
this isn’t always the best option in wet
months, as the moisture in the pile
of ground hay may allow the mold to
resume growth.
Packing corn silage correctly also
limits mold growth, he said. Mold
inhibitors in feed can be helpful, but
only in programs that use a total mix
ration or other rations that go through
a mixer wagon and into a feed bunk.
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Understanding historic
live cattle price volatility
Special to the Globe
C
attle buyers and sellers have
been experiencing a fluctuation of sorts, not just in
the live cattle markets over
the last eight months but also in their
within-day trades.
The live cattle market volatility in
the last year, but particularly in the last
eight months, shows a major downturn
in price, explained Kansas State University livestock economist Ted Schroeder.
For example, live fed steers have gone
from selling in the mid-$160s per
hundredweight (cwt) about this time
a year ago, dropped all the way to
$115/cwt in late December 2015 and
averaged $137/cwt the week of March
11, according to the U.S. Department
of Agriculture’s Agricultural Marketing
Service.
“That magnitude of price movement across just a few months and
that kind of volatility is something we
haven’t seen historically in terms of
total dollar magnitude in fed cattle
markets,” Schroeder said.
Buyers and sellers are also experiencing within-day volatility in the
futures market and the sometimes wide
range of prices between the high and
low price for the day, he said.
“Anytime a market is in rapid movement, whether it’s upward or downward
movement, there’s going to be a tendency for within-day variability to also
escalate,” Schroeder said.
Part of the reason for this is market
participants are looking forward and
contemplating where the market is
headed as they negotiate trades. They
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flowing at an accelerated rate.
“The market is grappling to some
extent for the latest information,”
Schroeder said. “Transactions, as
a result, end up with more volatility
within the day, because there’s a lot of
uncertainty about where the market is
going next.”
Areas of uncertainty
Part of the uncertainty comes
from price discovery, which happens
as information is gathered. Schroeder
said those who are selling are using the
knowledge they have to establish an
asking price, and those who are buying
are trying to put together a bid price.
The collective information each side
has is used to generate an agreeable
transaction price.
When the market is experiencing
rapid movements, whether in domestic supply and demand or in exports,
those who are involved in that market
– buyers and sellers – are both striving
to try to figure out where the next price
is, day to day and within the day, he
said.
Then there’s the question about
who is using cash trade information
for price discovery and in what ways,
Schroeder said, adding that there has
been a recent reduction in the number
of cash transactions being negotiated
in the live cattle market.
“When we reduce the volume of
trade that’s establishing the price in
the market, as we’ve done in a big way
in the cattle market over the last three
years or so, we’re reducing the amount
of information that’s being impounded
into that price,” he said. “Transactions
themselves create information for the
trade, so part of this goes back to the
cash trade. Information flows both
directions between futures and cash.”
Fewer transactions and a spottier
trade environment have led to other
concerns as well, Schroeder said. In the
last eight months, some buyers have
witnessed situations where cattle on
negotiated trade were getting too heavy
partly because sellers could continue
to take advantage of low feed costs and
feed cattle while waiting for the right time
to sell.
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However, from the data he’s seen
that CME Group has shared, high-fre-
High-frequency and
large-volume trading
The presence
of high-frequency
electronic trading,
or exchanges in the
market that occur
rapidly, can influence within-day price
variability, Schroeder
said, especially if
these rapid exchanges
are large in volume.
“To get another trade executed on
the other side of that large trade, the
market may have to move before that
next trade is executed,” he explained.
“The fact that large volume trading may
be occurring more quickly could add a
quency trading in live cattle has for the
most part not been of large volume,
even during some of the most volatile
trading days. On average, 10 percent of
the volume is of high-frequency trade in
the live cattle market, according to the
CME Group estimates.
Schroeder added that any type of
trade – whether high or low frequency,
large or small volume – increases
liquidity in a futures market.
“That’s the ability of you as
a seller to rapidly make a sale
order without having the price go
down to do it or me as a buyer to
be able to buy without having to
make the price go up to get that
transaction to occur,” Schroeder
said.
“If you have large volumes
of trade on both sides of that
market occurring, you can easily
make that trade without forcing
price to move for your trade to
occur,” he continued. “While highfrequency trading could add to
variability within the day, it also
provides liquidity for those who do want
to make a trade quickly without a lot of
slippage in that market.”
Advice to buyers and sellers
The best advice Schroeder has for
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cattle buyers and sellers in the current
market is to stick with a plan.
“If you’re placing the hedge, place
it as soon as you’ve established the
feeder cattle purchase price,” he said.
“Don’t wait two days, because who
knows where you will be. If you’re doing
this in the morning, don’t wait until the
afternoon. You can’t work off averages;
an hour from now that average could be
at a different point. There’s that much
variability.”
Schroeder said he doesn’t think
this is a new normal in the cattle
markets but is mainly due to current
uncertainty. However, the variability is
probably not going away for a while.
For more information and the latest
updates about the cattle market, visit
K-State’s Department of Agricultural
Economics website, http://agmanager.
info.
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Now That’s Rural: Randy
Burns – ARRO Head
By Ron Wilson
Huck Boyd National Institute for Rural
Development
R
andy Burns is field operations manager for the ARRO
Head Harvesting System. He
has a compelling life story to
tell. Randy grew up at the rural community of Cimarron, population 2,236
people. Now, that’s rural.
Randy married his high school
sweetheart who became a nurse. He
became a custom cutter during harvest
time. Randy and his wife had a son and
two daughters, one of whom married
a leading local farmer named Kyle
Kopper.
For 30 years, Randy and his father
custom cut together. Then came July
3, 2010. Randy was harvesting in
western Kansas when suddenly his leg
was crushed underneath a grain cart.
Tendons were exposed and the main
artery was severed. “I figured I should
call my wife and family and tell `em
I love `em,” Randy said. “I was about
to pass out when I thought to myself,
`You’ve preached all your life about
being tough. Don’t give up.’”
Randy was rushed to a local hospital where his condition was stabilized.
Then he was helicoptered to Denver.
The doctors told Randy they would
need to amputate the leg. Rebuilding it
would have uncertain results and might
require 20 to 25 surgeries. Randy said,
“Hey, I’ve got to cut corn in a couple of
months. If we need to take it off, let’s do
it.” Since the next day was the Fourth of
July when all the doctors had the day
off, they decided to do the operation on
the fifth.
On July 5, Randy signed the paper-
work to authorize the amputation. Then
the doctors found that, amazingly,
Randy could still wiggle his toes. When
Randy awoke from surgery, he found
his leg was still there. The surgeons had
reconnected tendons and veins. The leg
was saved.
One month later, Randy was in a
combine cutting barley in Colorado. He
used crutches and pulled himself up
into the cab of the combine. That year
he was able to cut 4,000 acres of corn.
In the end, only five surgeries were
required.
After the accident, Randy went
to work on the farm of his son-in-law,
Kyle Kopper. There, Randy and the
Koppers met combine consultant Alan
VanNahmen who had come to help
with harvest. They needed a new and
improved system for harvesting grain
sorghum. They wanted to convert the
combine’s corn harvesting attachment,
called a corn head, so it could harvest
grain sorghum more effectively.
They designed such a system and it
worked so well they decided to market
it. They called it Alternate Rotary
Rowcrop Option, or A-R-R-O – ARRO
for short. “Randy is a big Kansas City
Chiefs fan, so he liked calling it ARRO
Head,” Alan VanNahmen said.
The ARRO Head offers more reliability, the ability to pick up down or
lodged crops, greater control of cutting
height, and does not require permanent
modification of the corn head. They are
now building kits which can be used by
farmers or equipment dealers to convert corn heads. They plan to test this
innovative design on various models
during the harvest in South America,
which is off-season from the harvest in
the U.S.
Be watching for more information about the ARRO Head Harvesting
System.
Have you ever looked for arrowheads in a field? Today we’ve learned
about a different kind of arrowhead, the
ARRO Head system which can be used
to convert corn heads to harvest grain
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Now That’s Rural: Alan
VanNahmen – Farm Buddy
By Ron Wilson
Huck Boyd National Institute for Rural Development
A
lan VanNahmen comes
from the rural community
of Spearville in southwest
Kansas. Spearville has a
population of 817 people. Now, that’s
rural.
Alan grew up in a farming family
with three brothers and four sisters.
That meant everybody had to pitch in
on the farm. “As a kid, I drove lots of
combines,” Alan said. They tried different types of equipment. It also meant
that, when something broke, they fixed
it rather than paying a repairman.
Some people would call that adversity. “Adversity created opportunity,”
Alan said. It gave him first-hand knowledge of how combines work
Alan went to high school in Spearville. For foreign language, he happened
to take a French class. He went on to
Dodge City Community College and
then to K-State, where he first majored
in agricultural engineering and then
graduated in mechanical engineering
technology in 1977.
He had planned to go back to the
farm but John Deere was recruiting
engineers. Alan and his dad thought
it would be good for him to get some
business experience before returning
to the farm, so he took a position with
Deere and Company. He worked in field
service across the U.S.
Remember that French class he
had in high school? In 1982, John
Deere launched a business initiative in
Europe. Because of Alan’s knowledge
of the French language, he was sent
to France. This launched a remarkable international experience. After
President Nixon opened up commercial
relations with the People’s Republic of
China, Alan led the effort to introduce
combines into the Orient.
Eventually Alan came back to the
states where he managed a territory
in the U.S. He worked in a John Deere
research center where pioneering work
was being done on the first robotic
welders, automatic guidance systems,
and more. Then he took a position with
Claas, the German-owned combine
company, and settled with his wife and
family in Columbus, Indiana.
During his corporate career, he
observed farmers who struggled to
present their innovative farm equipment ideas to companies for potential
manufacturing. He thought to himself,
“Those farmers need a friend to guide
them through this process.”
In 1991, Alan founded a company
he called Farm Buddy to assist farmers
with product design and development.
He now serves as a consultant to farmers and agribusinesses. His specialty
is crop harvesting systems. He has had
clients as far away as Germany, France,
Australia, China, and New Zealand.
Today he has offices in Indiana and
Kansas and travels perhaps two-thirds
of the year.
Alan was working on a process to
bale forage for the cellulosic ethanol
plant in southwest Kansas when his
brother Fred told him about another
farm family which needed help with
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“They bought a new $70,000 milo
head, and on the first day (of harvest),
the slip clutch went out,” Alan said.
In frustration, they recognized they
needed a new and more reliable sorghum harvesting system.
“You can do a lot of thinking while
driving combines in long rows,” Alan
said. He thought about ways to redesign the standard corn harvesting
attachment to make it adaptable for
harvesting sorghum. He and the others
designed a prototype and put it to the
test in 2015. It worked so well that they
got a provisional patent and continued
to develop the concept.
Who knows more about combines
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Making Production Decisions In A
Lower Commodity Price Environment
By Dwight Koops
Crop Quest
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have gotten accustomed to
selling corn in the $5.00 to
$7.00 range. These higher
prices allowed us to take a little higher risk
approach to push yields goals higher than
what we normally might. Through this
process, we learn quicker whether there
is an adequate return on investment for
some of the more unconventional products. I refer to this as playing offense.
Due to the significant drop in commodity prices, producers are taking more
of a defensive stance when it comes to
crop inputs. We are making hard evaluations as to whether any particular input is
going to give us an adequate return. It’s
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It does not make sense to say, “I’m
going to eliminate a specific herbicide
application to save money”. If weeds are
infesting a field, the problem needs to be
addressed. The cost of inaction is much
more than the cost of doing what is right
or necessary to deal with the problem.
The solution to seeing a return on
investment lies in choosing the right
product(s) for the situation, and applying
those products at the right time. Many
times, there are numerous options available to deal with the problem at hand.
Making a sound evaluation of what each
product brings to the table inherently
will help control costs. But taking shortcuts usually leads to poor results, with
subsequent and unnecessary follow-up
applications.
One area that may allow us to reduce
costs is fertilizer. Fertilizer typically gives a
high return on investment, and we encour-
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age our producers to apply the nutrients
necessary to attain an acceptable yield.
But soil is not Styrofoam. Nutrients move
in and out of solution all the time in soil.
Typically, micronutrients are at adequate
levels, and don’t require additional fertilizer. Timing and placement of the macro
nutrients – N, P, K allows us to choose
precise rates, and not be tempted to “just
add another 40 pounds, just in case”.
Management zones are another tool
that should be utilized when applying
fertilizer. Take advantage of those areas
of the field that already have adequate or
excess levels of nutrients. Put those fertilizer dollars where you need them.
Good fertilizer decisions start with a
good soil sample, and looking at historical
sample information. Developing a sound
fertility program, as well as choosing
proper varieties and applying other inputs
at the proper time will make better use of
the dollars spent; and still give opportunity to show a profit, even when prices are
less than adequate.
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