Earlier post about seed corn!!!

JD Seller · Nov 6, 2015

The earlier post about seed corn got me to thinking about how times have changed. When I was younger you would order your seed corn maybe in Feb.-March an paid for it when delivered. About the only discount was for volume. Now you have early order and early pay options that have some serious discounts if you take advantage of them. We already have our seed ordered and paid for next year. Just doing that got us an extra 15% discount. That really helps on the cost.

How many of you take advantage of these type of programs???

donjr · Nov 6, 2015

Bought and paid for over a month ago...

notjustair · Nov 6, 2015

I do with seed and liquid fertilizer/starter/micros. I think farming ages you fast. I can't tell you the last time I wasn't planning a couple of years away. Hogs are easy - I only need to plan 6-12 months out. Cattle? Better think a year in advance unless you grow your own bulls. Then you better think three in advance. It's funny how far we have to go on the calendar to feel like we are on top of things.

I was talking to my mom about the wheat harvest of 2017. She laughed because I don't have all of the beans cut yet. Yes, but my seed wheat was horrible this year so I had to buy certified Everest to drill last week to have a good crop to cut to have seed for the 2017 harvest. It makes it seem so soon.

VADAVE · Nov 7, 2015

Yup do that. Also helps with taxes as by buying early seed and fertilizer you can move most of the big expenses into one year. Then the next year can be a good chance of profit for the IRS. To make that work one I buy in January and then buy in December. Probably won't be so profitable for you since you are so diversified.
I started the farm when I was much younger and the job had a lot of stress. Some would say I'm just a hobby farmer but it kept me from getting the ulcers some off my co-workers had to deal with. Now that I have more time finding ground to rent has become a problem.

coonie minnie · Nov 7, 2015

Usually buy seed in late Nov or early Dec. I like to finish harvest and make a full review of test plot data (this years!) before ordering. Usually costs me about 1% or so, but I think I can make it up in making decent choices on current data. I think the push to pre-harvest discounts is to keep producers from shopping around too much. If they lock you in prior to harvest, you don't have the opportunity to say, "Your corn was lousy this year, I'm planting more of another brand..."

RGMartin · Nov 7, 2015

Local seed/fertilizer dealer has an open house early October, before harvest is in full swing, but late enough to get an idea what corn did that year, and look at the test plots.

They get work with the seed companies for some extra discounts. This year one of the smaller companies did a buy 2 get one free, or buy 3 get 1 depending on the traits.

This equals big discounts. The big company did the couple/few percent here and there game, totaling maybe 10-15%.

The small companies seed is the one that consistently does best for me, I paid for 90% of what I plan to plant.

Earlier post about seed corn!!!

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