Corn and Bean Yields?

[Scott Strand]

What are your corn and bean yields? Please tell us you location, was your crop better/worse than last year, and by how much?

[Nick Aaron Benson]

The thing to remember with any living organism that is being used as a catylast for a bio-tech trait is that there will not always, in every field, be a yield advantage to its non traited counterpart. For example, who hasn't harvested a field of corn where the refuge is yielded more than the heavily trated variety. No matter if it is Agrisure3000, HXT or VT3. I think that this is where the mass marketing has and does fall short. We need to remember that we are dealing with a living organisms, not mechanics, that are heavily influenced by many factors. So when we look at new technology we need to be able to look at the whole versus what is happening in a specific field. Combines are finally starting to roll and I am pretty excited to see what the final tally will be for RR2Yields. As far as that is concerned, excited to see how all technology will turn out compared to non traited isolines.

[Nick]

We are a third into our corn harvest and a conventional field is still at the top.....totally agree with you...it might not happen every year, but there is a lot of value to selecting base genetics sometimes.....not even to mention they are half the price of a bag of VT3 seed.

[Nick Aaron Benson]

Couldn't agree more. I like to look at it like a horse and the saddle. You can put the fanciest saddle on an old beat up horse and still end up with an old beat up horse. Much is the same with corn. If the germplasm isn't fit for that particular region, farming practice or weather pattern it is still going to under perform, no matter the trait load (saddle). Now in reference to RR2Yield it is a little different in the fact that it is a trait that's performance is not based on weather, microclimate or insect pressure. It is a Biotech trait that has intrinsic yield value. This means that no matter the base genetics it will add yield. This is different than any other transgenetic trait. Also to consider is that RR2Yield has been converted on lines that still need some defense bred into them, so into the future (next year) the RR2 Lines will actually be performing better......

[Peter Zeliff Jr]

58 BPA beans and we are running about 150 BPA corn. I'd say we are close to last years yeilds but test weight is down this year. I'm in western New York.

[nick dietrick]

in texas county Oklahoma we cut 5286 acres of our corn with a average yeild of 283 moisture was 18.6 and we had a better year this year than last

[David Ernst]

I'm northeast of St. Louis. Beans were average. The historically poor fields did good, and the good fields didn't do hat great. The corn is doing real good, but all the mud is driving me crazy.

[Michael]

I am in North West Kansas, oveall farm average was down due to hail. We do no have irrigation, so this is all dryland. Worst hailed field 90% damage was 40bu/ac and the least hailed field 80% damage was 72bu/ac. Unhailed fields were in the 120-135bu/ac range....which is stellar for this area (usually 100bu/ac corn is rare in this area). 14.3 % moisture was the driest we hauled into the elevator and 16.6 was the wettest.

[Adam]

Southwest Kansas, overall corn avg way down due to hail also. Anywhere from 50-140b/a (irrigated) Dryland corn was 75 (little to no hail). As for Milo, we've never seen a better crop. Poorest has been 107, just finished a field today avg'd 142 b/a. Pioneer 85y40 is one kick@ss variety for milo. Test weights been rather good, 57-62lb both corn and milo.

[Scott Sova]

20 ACRES OF BEANS...TERRIBLE YEILD DONT' KNOW EXACT NUMBERS BUT WAY LOWER THAN LAST YEAR...WE ALSO HAD A LOT OF VOLUNTEER CORN SPROUT UP IN BEAN FEILD...CORN FEILDS ARE STILL TO WET TO PICK (WE LEAVE IT ON THE COB).

[Scott Sova]

35 MILES NORTH OF MINNEAPOLIS MN

[Tyler Hedge]

We farm in south montgomery county, WCIN. Our corn avg. was right around 205 bu ac and our beans made 62 bu ac right on the button. We are 100% Pioneer because we are dealers. We had one field of beans make 72 bu ac. All of our corn was under 19% beacuse of late April- early May planting.

[Morgan]

North Central Kansas, had one field of 60 acres that we drilled this year to soybeans, lays down along a creek, probley some of the better ground in our area, but a Fontanelle early stage 3 beans made 52 bushels to the acre.