Kevin Stallbaumer

@BradyD78 I always would like to know what is all figured into the cost of production.

Check this out! This is the corn chart for the past 20 years. The red dashed line in the avg cost/bu to raise corn from 2010-2020. The green dashed line is the avg cost/bu to from 2021-2025. Do you notice something similar for these two time periods? Are we stuck between $4.20 and $5.00 for the next 5 years with avg. COP around $4.90 per bushel? Cost per bushel 2010:$3.60 2011:$4.17 2012:$5.31 2013:$4.28 2014:$4.03 2015:$4.01 2016:$3.89 2017:$3.77 2018:$3.88 2019:$4.13 2020:$3.96 2021:$4.16 2022:$5.35 2023:$5.13 2024:$4.95 2025:$4.85

@braunfarm For sure. But big ag doesn’t want to take time to do that. One crop one farm and onto the next. Crp buffer strips that you can shred on the spring would be great. wildlife in the fall and keep the brush down. Nrcs would screw that up

So a dumb question hit my while I was running down the road. We are overproducing commodities and losing money. I bet if we all too our least productive acres out of production it would hugely help the oversupply situation and our pocketbooks. Every one of my field edges seems to be a loser from wildlife and tree shading. Why am I still planting them? Wouldn’t I be better off planting a forage crop or small grain for feed around the edges to keep the weeds down?

@BenRiensche Love to pay it vs running red!

@Citrowske_L What about the two tone Pete?

Got 4 of these 2019 volvos automatics 405 hp miles from 620-677 good rubber good ac Nice clean trucks $24000

@gavin_spoor Terraces do the most good if built to the right height. But no one wants to farm with the contour but rather up and over them. Couple pics look like they need some terraces. Not fun to farm but hold the soil

The unfortunate side of farming. These are all fields I farm and the erosion disgusts me. There’s only so much you can do to fight a 3-4” gully washer, even with 100% no till. Creeks are full of muddy dirt filled water. I’m slowly turning into a cover crop fanatic. Waterways and terraces don’t stop enough of it. If those in charge of our government want to see less, they should keep our herbicide options available or they’ll be much more of this.

@ErickFarmer73 NE Kansas has the shit weather this go around

🚨🚨🚨 Trump Administration makes February weather in Colorado perfect.

@lylarg What is the main reason you or any of these respondents on this thread decided to sell out of cattle ?

Bittersweet day yesterday as we loaded up the last of the bred cows and sent them off. Been like 80 years there’s been cows on this farm but felt it was time to move on. Will take a little adjustment but it will be all good

@silagechopper Does that have the return conveyor on right side? That’s what our first one was

And that right there was the one that started it all.

@JansenStuart You aren’t very far from wet. NE Kansas we are melting away 17” of snow from early January

As a livestock guy I love a winter drought, but after 2 severe dry summers will this be big bad one....

@brettswff @KevinVanTrump He must be selling cattle soon to help boost local feeder cattle demand

Did anyone catch this report in the @KevinVanTrump report yesterday? Wheat headed out in December in SW Kansas 🧐🤨😂

@MrBissell_917 How much yield loss do u see? How many deer would you estimate to be in the timber by your field?

Never thought we’d have to go to these measure’s to keep Deer out of bean fields

@clintwfischer Makes sense to buy equipment to harvest. Better question is what is the owner doing with his time during harvest and would they be willing to give up whatever that is to sit in combine every day

Harvest results are in: 5,000 acres of Milo cost $60.5/acre to have custom cut. Does that warrant buying a combine?

@Bkitch1Bodie I’d love that. 6-7 in NE Kansas

My dad called me after hauling to the elevator and he said you got a new record. I said what’s that, he said 8.2% the new low on soybeans reason 1 million 999 thousand why I hate soybeans

@swksfarmer Or should I say never used zoom

@swksfarmer Yeh great with excel but not zoom

Any Excel experts around? Need someone that could be available to help on issues via Zoom etc. asap. Would pay for your time. DM me if interested.

@deerests @eichstadt_jay That’s my weapon!

@eichstadt_jay Have I got a deal for you

What do you hate more than plastic synovex guns

@brian_butler80 Looks like a the plan all came together

Cant wait to harvest this monster 😍

@Bryndon Should’ve went through Oklahoma caus the Kansas claims them too. But for now they are playing in Missouri

Who’s gonna tell him

@pete_90210 Run the planter in notill and u will be pleased with them results

Here’s my biggest problem with no till beans. Both are planted around 1 June The beans on the left are mine planted with JD no till old drill. Right heavily worked ground planted with planter(better depth and singulation ) I have to be giving up yield. How much?

@jasonmauck1 Great plan. What’s your yield goals or past yields for each crop???

I have been thinking quite a bit about how I am going to build the ultimate relay cropping implement. The objective is to do these 3 things in one pass 1. plant soybeans in March or April with 3 or 4 rows of soybeans in between the rows of wheat. 2. Apply Nitrogen, Sulfur to wheat 3. Apply herbicide w/residual in the space between the wheat rows. Keeping all product off of the wheat. Utilizing the proxy attributes of the cereal for this to be the last pass….until the combine. 9 years of research and thousands of posts on this platform I have noticed 4 very interesting and valuable observations about this system that should increase the adoption and create a market that would demand an implement such as this. 1. Profitable 2. Great for soil 3. Mitigates weather risks especially in the eastern corn belt 4. Easier to control weeds in soybeans than mono crop (lower costs) Many ideas floating in my head. The main one to imagine is an @UnverferthMfg sidedress unit set on 30” rows Ever other row injects N, S in between rows 2 and 3 of the wheat Every other row is redesigned with a module that accomplishes the 3 objectives Made of steel a hood with 3 or 4 planting units plant soybeans while herbicide is applied on the rear just like a 1960’s promotional flick for Prowl. The N could be whipped like @360yieldcenter y drop on those units…might want to keep the sticky away? Anyway many ways to skin the cat. If you want to add some tillage then making a heavy duty row cultivator with hoe drill cultivator shovels could make the first pass bury some urea /ams only on the shovels closest to the wheat and a second pass a few days or weeks later with the beans. The spray may be more difficult to be affective with a rougher surface so some kind of press wheat / row cultipacker would be needed. Anyway. Looks good. I can accomplish the end result many different ways….but the goal is to always be efficient with my time and resources