Dave, you know I'm just one County West of you, virtually same latitude. I did corn on corn for 8 years on what little I still farm, just to satisfy an ethanol plant (now defunct) that I invested in. Major yield drag, even tho I fertilized more than my renter did, on 4 adjoining fields. Went to beans, got 60 bpa, then 42 last year- both years no fertilizer. This year, with minimal fertilizer, made 49 bpa.
Rotation to at least one other crop is still best for the long term. Especially with corn, you can save a lot of insecticide by rotating. When I farmed full-time, with dairy, barley, alfalfa, corn, beans....had very few acres c/c.
With the corn yields you've talked about, I don't understand beans maxing at 33. Beans typically do a third of corn bpa. Gotta be something else holding them back. I've got the Kinze meters, think they're set at around 150,000, certainly not over 160,000. I had 1.4 maturity beans this year, going with 1.8 next year..........combined this year on the last day of summer, Sep 21. WOW! to be done that early! Went on a trip to Colo- tilled a month later, after finally getting a bit of rain. Ground was mellow, not clumpy, by then.
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