\Whitetop said:Had my fertilizer supplier tell me today , what cost me 130 dollars per acre last fall will cost me 250 dollars this fall. Do you spose there is some profit taking going on? Now let me tell you about this $5.00 corn which I am selling rather than feeding to 92 cent fats. After doing income tax the last two weeks I got to looking at some old books. In 1975 I sold some corn for 2.75 per bushel. I also bought a jd 4430 for $15,000 ,same type tractor today wiil probably cost $70,000 . Bought deisel for 25 cents, now 2.50 to 3.00 ,seed corn for $42 per bag, now $200, granted then 80 bu per acre was good now 175 is ok, but we have had four years of the best yeilds ever.Bottom line is even with the great yeilds and higher than ever prices I think I could buy more inputs with an acre of production then than I can now.
Whitetop said:Dekalb triple stack, $238 per bag list, 19% discount comes to about $193 cash. I can buy cheap corn too but I plant a test plot nearly every year and weigh it with a weigh wagon. The cheap seed yeilds far less. Last year Pioneer gave me a couple bags of two of their best numbers and they weighed it at harvest,180 and 186 for the pioneer 197 and 198 for the dekalb. Fourteen bushel average difference times $5 is $70 per acre At 2.5 acres per bag that's $175 that cheap bag of seed cost me. I don't like to pay for high priced seed but the cheap stuff costs more in the long run.
Whitetop said:I didn't intend for my first statement to be taken as a sales pitch for high or low cost seed , sorry if it sounded that way. I was just trying to use numbers that I know to make the point that even with the high prices for grain now, after everyone raises their prices to me for inputs. I could pay more bills with less acres in 1975 than I can in 2008
katrina said:Whitetop said:Dekalb triple stack, $238 per bag list, 19% discount comes to about $193 cash. I can buy cheap corn too but I plant a test plot nearly every year and weigh it with a weigh wagon. The cheap seed yeilds far less. Last year Pioneer gave me a couple bags of two of their best numbers and they weighed it at harvest,180 and 186 for the pioneer 197 and 198 for the dekalb. Fourteen bushel average difference times $5 is $70 per acre At 2.5 acres per bag that's $175 that cheap bag of seed cost me. I don't like to pay for high priced seed but the cheap stuff costs more in the long run.
We buy the same thing Denny.......... And like it..... We have done the high price stuff and on dry land a bushel of corn is a bushel of corn.. And drought don't give shite what brand it is.... :wink:
katrina said:Whitetop said:Dekalb triple stack, $238 per bag list, 19% discount comes to about $193 cash. I can buy cheap corn too but I plant a test plot nearly every year and weigh it with a weigh wagon. The cheap seed yeilds far less. Last year Pioneer gave me a couple bags of two of their best numbers and they weighed it at harvest,180 and 186 for the pioneer 197 and 198 for the dekalb. Fourteen bushel average difference times $5 is $70 per acre At 2.5 acres per bag that's $175 that cheap bag of seed cost me. I don't like to pay for high priced seed but the cheap stuff costs more in the long run.
We buy the same thing Denny.......... And like it..... We have done the high price stuff and on dry land a bushel of corn is a bushel of corn.. And drought don't give shite what brand it is.... :wink: