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Fairly on topic Conventional vs RR corn

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Dave from MN

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On average it seems RR corn is running $50-$70 more per bag than the same varieties in conventional. Will RR yeild better than conventional? Are spraying cost more for conventional? I wonder if I am better off staying with RR or Liberty or going to conventional. Any thoughts.
 
RR is 'easy'. Go out & spray any time, and the weeds will be killed. Weather, other issues don't matter.

With conventional sprays, you need to be on time. If you are late, you may hurt the corn, or you may not kill the weeds if they are too big.

If your previous crop was a rr crop, it might be good to give LL a try - change up the chemical so the weeds - as well as volinteer growth from last crop - is killed off & out of the way.

Cost - that is a real tossup right now - no one knows what ru will cost whenever you buy it - was supposed to be up $40 a gallon, now hearing it is dropping $10 a gallon - who knows? With prices fluctuating so much, it is a brand new year, we can't just go off of last year's prices. Have you priced seed corn this year in fact, most say it is _much_ higher than last year, look into that if you haven't.

Just need to look around yourself at what prices are for this year, see what pencils out for you.

If grain prices don't come up, and seed, fert, & herbicide prices stay up where they are - we will not see much corn planted in 2009! _Something_ is going to have to give.

--->Paul
 
Are you going corn-on-corn forever or do you have rotational crops such as soybeans? If you rotate, do RR with one and conventional with the other. I do corn soybean so I do RR soybean and conventional corn. That way you won't be bothered with volunteer corn in your soybean fields the following year.
 
I forgot. If you do corn/corn/corn it's still a good idea to go RR and then do conventional once in a while. At least that's what I'm told. Helps prevent weeds from becoming RR tolerant.
 
My corn this year will be going on RR soybean ground and this past summers rye ground. These fileds have been RR corn/soybean rotations for year from previous renter. I have one feild that MAY be corn for the 3rd year, was RR this year, but will probably be soybeans.
 
Glyphosate solutions require no significant personal safety precautions. Nearly all other corn herbicides are hazardous to humans and require licensed applicators. I won't touch them. Sure its a little annoying to see volunteer corn in my beans, but I've found the modern vollunteer corn to be sterile. Not ONE kernel on the ears, even when there were a dozen or more stalks together. So the beans won't be contaminated. And if there was some corn so long as it wasn't over 2% foreign matter that corn got sold for 2 to 4 times per bushel as corn from the corn field.

Gerald J.
 
Really? This summer I pulled some roundup volunteer corn out of the beans and it had some darned good ears on it. There's so many different varieties of corn now that it might very well be true that some varieties of volunteer corn are sterile. Jim
 
You can Zap the RR corn in RR beans by adding 6 ounces of Select to your roundup or glyposate. Cheap to.
 
I've been monitoring crop yields for 19 years and there is ALWAYS ayield drop with any GM crops. Nobody wants GM crops except Monsanto and their shareholders. We're all getting hosed. Yeah, GM crops are easy. All you need is more acres. Every year. And you'll cut your neighbour's throat to rent those extra acres.
You can keep anything GM.
 
I would rather plant conventional corn. Monsanto gets enough of my money the way it is. However, be ready for a big chemical bill. I planted 60 acres of conventional corn last year. Had over $40 an acre in chemical costs and still more weeds than the roundup corn. The thought of growing corn is starting to get depressing. 15 years ago we bought a $60 bag of seed, cultivated once, sprayed once ended up with clean 100-125 bu corn. 150 if weather was perfect. Now, we spend 3 times as much on seed and end up with same result. Only differnce is we get more per bushel-for now.
 
Only bad thing about RR ready corn is that some guys went back to walking beans bacause they did not want to buy extra chemicals to kill the corn in the beans
 
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