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Researcher urges caution on varieties and seeding rates
A soybean researcher is urging producers to be cautious about their 2019 crop inputs. University of Wisconsin’s Shawn Conley has been meeting farmers at winter agronomy meetings, telling them to be cautious about cutting soybean seeding rates. “I know that’s a common practice that growers are doing, but the germ and the seed quality across the board
One input Conley says producers should not cut is seed treatments. “Given the seed quality concerns we see across the industry, seed treatments, specifically the fungicide seed treatments have a strong return on investment and really help increase the percent germ of that soybean seed they’re planting.”
And, he says
Conley says yield pays the bills, so spending five to fifteen bucks more for treated seeds and good genetics is a good investment when there’s up to twenty bushels per acre difference between some varieties.
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Amen. Thanks Dr. Conley for sharing the right information behind production and risk management.
Low input production AG more often than not equates to low output. Reducing critical inputs at the expense of profitability is never a good idea.