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Today’s Sponsors. CBOT Prices. http://www.danscartoons.com/ag44_demo.gif. soybean at $33/bag corn at $140 - $200/bag N at $0.45/lb P at $0.50/lb K at $0.30/lb Land rent????. Corn Hybrids for 2008. Chad Lee, Jim Herbek. GOOGLE. “Grain Crops Extension” “Kentucky Corn Hybrids”

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  1. Today’s Sponsors

  2. CBOT Prices

  3. http://www.danscartoons.com/ag44_demo.gif

  4. soybean at $33/bag • corn at $140 - $200/bag • N at $0.45/lb • P at $0.50/lb • K at $0.30/lb • Land rent????

  5. Corn Hybrids for 2008 Chad Lee, Jim Herbek

  6. GOOGLE • “Grain Crops Extension” • “Kentucky Corn Hybrids” • “Kentucky Soybean Varieties”

  7. Corn Hybrid Trials • About 140 hybrids • 7 locations • Compare hybrid relative yield performance • Reduce as many other variables as possible. • Identify hybrids for your conditions.

  8. Reduce Variability in the Field

  9. Reduce Variability in the Field

  10. Reduce Variability in the Field

  11. LSD = 7.4 bu/acre Early Average Yield = 170.6 bu/acre 13 Hybrids within 7.4 bu/acre of top yield 57 hybrids total in the Early Test. 2007 Kentucky Corn Hybrid Performance Test, p. 7

  12. LSD = 8.0 bu/acre Medium Average Yield = 177.3 bu/acre 13 Hybrids within 8.0 bu/acre 76 hybrids total in Medium Test 2007 Kentucky Corn Hybrid Performance Test, p. 8

  13. 12 hybrids in White Test 2007 Kentucky Corn Hybrid Performance Test, p. 8

  14. Early Maturity Hybrids, 2007

  15. Populations Row Spacing

  16. Kentucky Soybean Varieties

  17. Soybean Varieties • Are you getting the most yield for your soybean dollar?

  18. Based on Yields from 2006 Trials and expected performance in 2007. (The 2006 Soybean Performance Trial was predicting yields for 2007)

  19. (Based on performance in 2007.)

  20. 2007 Soybean Performance Trials • About 200 commercial varieties tested • 5 locations (2 were dropped due to drought)

  21. 2007 Soybean Performance Trials • Labeling in tables to help identify traits

  22. www.dhs.gov/chemicalsecurity

  23. www.dhs.gov/chemicalsecurity

  24. Corn Hybrids for Ethanol Chad Lee University of Kentucky

  25. EtOH (Gallons/Bushel)

  26. Hybrids

  27. Starch-based Ethanol (USA) • The first step in biofuels • Improvements in efficiency needed • Rotational implications

  28. Why Corn? • We can grow it. • We can ship it. • We can make ethanol from it. • U.S. Stats, 2007 • 84 million acres • 154.7 bushels/acre • 13.3 billion bushels • 495 billion lbs of starch

  29. EtOH Production (USA) http://www.ethanolrfa.org/industry/statistics/

  30. Fuel Statistics, 2006 Zalesky, R. 2007. Integrating biofuels. Geotimes. March: 30-33. Note: R. Zalesky, VP for Biofuels and Hydrogen, Chevron Technology Ventures, Chevron Corp.

  31. Fuel Statistics, 2006 Zalesky, R. 2007. Integrating biofuels. Geotimes. March: 30-33. Note: R. Zalesky, VP for Biofuels and Hydrogen, Chevron Technology Ventures, Chevron Corp.

  32. CORN 1 Bushel 1 Bushel 2.8 gallons ethanol 18 lb DDG 18 lb CQ2 • 61% starch • 3.8% oil • 8.0% protein • 11.2% fiber http://www.ethanolrfa.org/

  33. Improving Efficiency

  34. Improving Efficiency • Starch • Grain yield (bushels/acre) • Grain composition • Extractable and/or fermentable starch

  35. EtOH (Gallons/Bushel)

  36. Efficiency † based on a 100 million gallons facility ‡ Based on 155.8 bu/acre (2007 projected average yield)

  37. Hybrids

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