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Woodford County Grains Meeting

Join Dr. Chad Lee from the University of Kentucky for a meeting on Woodford County grains. Topics include CBOT prices, soil fertility, weather, economics, planting date, seeding rate, hybrid genetics, timely harvest, pest management, and chemical regulations.

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Woodford County Grains Meeting

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  1. Woodford County Grains Meeting Dr. Chad Lee, University of Kentucky

  2. CBOT Prices

  3. Input Prices • 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????

  4. TOTAL YIELD Soil Fertility Soil Fertility Weather Weather Economics Economics Planting Date, Seeding Rate Planting Date, Seeding Rate Soil Structure Soil Structure Hybrid Genetics Hybrid Genetics Timely Harvest Timely Harvest Pest Management Pest Management SLATS ON A BARREL TOTAL YIELD

  5. DHS: Chemical Regulations Specifically anyone who possesses (November 20, 2007 or later) listed materials above specified quantities will be required to register with the Department of Homeland Security and complete the Top-Screen assessment before January 21, 2008.   If a farmer does not currently have these materials but takes delivery at a later date then they have 60 days from the day of delivery to become registered.   Also if someone is registered and then increase the quantity of material they possess (above the amount you told DHS in the original Top-Screen) then they have 60 days to update this information.  

  6. DHS: Chemical Regulations • Ammonium Nitrate Fertilizer – 2000 lbs in a shipping package (bags, truck, fertilizer buggies – basically anything except bulk storage) • Anhydrous Ammonia – 10,000 lbs total (add all quantities in nurse tanks and bulk tanks to get possess quantity) • Potassium Nitrate – 400 lbs in a shipping package • Sodium Nitrate – 400 lbs in a shipping package • Some common fumigants (check list for specifics) • Propane – 60,000 lbs (not counting tanks 10,000 pounds or less) Anyone who meets any one of the above criteria (or any of the other listed chemicals) should log onto the DHS web page at http://www.dhs.gov/xprevprot/programs/gc_1169501486197.shtm and complete the Chemical Security Assessment Tool.  Once this is completed DHS will determine if your facility is considered high risk and tell you what additional steps need to be taken.  

  7. For More Information… • Your County Extension Agent • AGR-185: Nitrogen Transformation Inhibitors and Controlled Release Urea

  8. Option 2 • Have your nitrogen fertilizer custom-applied. Let your ag supply dealer shoulder the headache.

  9. Biotechnology • Useful tools when needed • weed control • Pest management Rural Myth #1 “Biotechnology automatically equals yield” sometimes

  10. Corn-Borer Advantage: Late PLANTING Princeton, KY Herbek and Bessin

  11. Trophy hunting Rural Myth #2 “I’m saving money by waiting to spray.”

  12. Soybean vs. Corn 3.0 90 bu/acre corn: 30 bu/acre soybean 120 bu/acre corn: 40 bu/acre soybean 150 bu/acre corn : 50 bu/acre soybean 210 bu/acre corn: 70 bu/acre soybean

  13. Corn Hybrids for 2008 Chad Lee

  14. 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.

  15. LSD = 7.4 bu/acre Early Average Yield = 170.6 bu/acre 13 Hybrids within one 7.4 bu/acre 2007 Kentucky Corn Hybrid Performance Test p. 7

  16. Early Maturity Hybrids, 2007

  17. Corn: Other Findings from 2007

  18. Subsurface Drip Irrigation

  19. Corn YieldsWoodford County: SDI, 2007 Year: 2007 Location: Woodford County Farm Hybrid: SS777RR2YGPL Poncho 1250-treated seed Planting: May 3, 2007

  20. Agronomics: Planting Date • Corn • April 1 to May 1: Western KY • April 15 to May 15: Central and Eastern KY

  21. Planting date, optimum dates • Princeton • Lexington May 1 - 7 April 19 - 25

  22. Corn: Fungicide Question • Industry is promoting foliar fungicides • Application near VT • Guaranteeing yields in some cases

  23. 200 bu/acre Pioneer 31D61 (YGCB) NLB rating = 4 (where 1 = susc., 9 = highly resist.) No fungicide treatment Muhlenberg County Photo taken: Sept. 30, 2007

  24. 270 bu/acre Pioneer 31D61 (YGCB) NLB rating = 4 (where 1 = susc., 9 = highly resist.) Fungicide treatment Muhlenberg County Photo taken: Sept. 30, 2007

  25. Corn: Fungicides Hybrids Fungicides Check (untreated) Headline 6 oz/acre • DKC64-76 RR2/YGPL • GLS: 6 • Stalk strength: 5 • DKC63-42 VT3 • GLS: 5 • Stalk strength: 3 Locations • Logan County • (Hybrid Testing Program) • Spindletop Farm

  26. Corn Fungicides

  27. Corn: Fungicides, 2007 Data Logan County Spindletop ‡ unprotected LSD (experimentwise error ns)

  28. Corn: Fungicides, 2007 Data Spindletop Farm

  29. Corn Fungicides • Leaf diseases: NS • Ear diseases: NS

  30. Corn Fungicides: Farmer Testing

  31. Farmer Testing Quilt at 14 oz/acre + Warrior at 3.5 oz/acre

  32. Soybeans

  33. Current Recommendation • Full season soybean: 15-inch rows • 100,000 plants/acre needed for maximum yield

  34. Large Strip Trials, PopulationsHardin County, 2006 Hardin County Replicated strips 50K, 100K and 150K seeds/acre 3.9 maturity, full season Bob Wade, Jr., Back Forty Farms

  35. 55.7 bu/a 53.3 bu/a 55.6 bu/a 100K 52K Hardin County Replicated strips 50K, 100K and 150K seeds/acre 3.9 maturity, full season Bob Wade, Jr., Back Forty Farms Hardin County Replicated strips 50K, 100K and 150K seeds/acre 3.9 maturity, full season Bob Wade, Back Forty Farms 150K

  36. 50 bu/a Worth and Dee Ellis Farms Photo taken: August 4, 2006 Full season planting 3.9 maturity? Soybeans at R3 90K, 110K and 150K seeds/A

  37. Next Question • Weed control and weed competition?

  38. Next Question • Weed control and weed competition? Scientists question: Will fewer plants per acre be less competitive with weeds? Farmer question: Will I have to spray more Roundup?

  39. Soybean: Population and Weeds Two locations: Princeton, KY and Lexington, KY, Silt loam soils One soybean variety: AG3906, medium architecture

  40. Soybean Populations and Weeds 3 WAP 5 WAP 1 inch of rain before 3 WAP 1 inch of rain between dates

  41. Soybean: Population and Weeds

  42. Sarver, Lee, Herbek, Martin and Green

  43. Soybean Yield(Lexington and Princeton)

  44. 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.

  45. 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.

  46. 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/

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