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Planting delay considerations becoming more complicated

Farmers have a lot to contemplate while waiting for fields to dry out.

Farm management analyst Kent Thiesse, who’s based in southern Minnesota, says impending crop insurance deadlines and emerging details of more trade aid has muddied up this year’s planting intentions.

Thiesse recently ran some numbers on soybeans planted after June 10^th with an expected yield reduction of 20 percent.

“And it’s about a push when you compare that to prevented planting at $8 per bushel. However, if you plug in a Market Facilitation payment on top of that, obviously it would be more incentive to try and get the crop in the ground.”

For corn, he tells Brownfield a determining factor should be how much is already invested in those acres.

“Do you have any fertilizer spread on the ground? Did you do fall tillage? And if you haven’t put any dollars into it, then prevented planting maybe starts to look somewhat attractive compared to going down to earlier hybrids planted late.”

Thiesse says for farmers who have some of the crop planted, at least 20 percent of intended acres must remain unplanted to qualify for prevented planting.