Comparing the cost and yield of GMO v. Non GMO corn. @thislldofarm @barntalk @MillennialFarmer @ColeTheCornstar #farm #farming #GATA #georgiasouthern #corn @GeorgiaSouthernUniv
Amazing! I knew you'd be happy with hybrid85. Up here in WI been having excellent luck and yield. Especially with drought last yr. Will never go back to the big name seed. No issues with weeds, bugs, worms or grass. CapenoGt and Primero worked for me for herbicide.
It is so interesting seeing the data up close. And there isn't any anti gmo bias, just honest to goodness how is this plant doing. I am looking forward to seeing the seasons final results. Thanks for another great video.
@@PatrickShivers We have a very wet spring here, everything is a month behind. Doesn't grow really well and in some areas they haven't been able to sow and plant yet.
Is the Dekalb RIB hybrid? That's a 20% refuge, so you would have to pick 100 ears to get a close estimate of efficacy. In my area, the 20% RIB is all you can get in the BT earworm variety. I'm not criticizing, just an observation. You are making an excellent point. Can't wait for the yield monitor results. Taller corn is better, especially for silage volume, because it can absorb more sunlight. Shorter corn can stand more "weather" such as windstorms. 👍👍
I got roughly 20 pounds of a dekalb variety from a friend of mine and planted about 2 acres I sprayed it with roundup and it killed some of it and some it didn’t.
Very interesting results. One question I didn't ask yesterday, was if the non-gmo corn will sell at a different price? Seems like the market has a premium on non-gmo produce.
No. At the row where they meet there is a sharp 18” difference in height and worm pressure immediately changes from moderate to 0. If they had cross pollinated the rows where they met would have shared some traits, meaning the height difference wouldn’t be as pronounced and the worm contamination/resistance would have been intermingled. Most of the corn (of both varieties) is going to the same place at harvest time also
@@MorganOtt-ne1qj I have planted some GMO sweet corn before, a few thousand acres of it is grown about 30 miles south of me. It was $600 for a very small bag I could carry in one hand.
@@PatrickShiverswe used a tank mix of Princep and Atrex for years for a combo punch on grass and broadleaf. Only pulled a cultivator through it once at lay by. We tried our best to eliminate the cultivator altogether, because a row crop cultivator is the worst thing in the world to scatter nutgrass and johnsongrass all over a field. If we have to go back to the cultivator, I'm afraid 30 years of hard work on nutgrass control will go out the window.
Did you think about the cross pollination making the non gmo genetically modified? I wouldn’t eat anything within 25-30 feet from that gmo corn. Cool test tho and showing truth about their “technology”!
I did. I don’t think cross pollination occurred as there is a hard line distinction in height and worm population. If they cross pollinated you would expect a gradual blending of traits where they meet.
@@PatrickShivers it will I agree.. But if it’s in the seed and you are eating the seeds how are you not putting genetic modifications in your body and your families body?
@@microsoilenhancersinspirey5750 if you have consumed any corn or soybean product (Doritos for an example or vegetarian meat such as the “impossible whopper”) in the last 30 years then you’ve consumed GMO. There is no human in the US that hasn’t consumed a lot of GMO products. I personally don’t believe there is any health risk, as most of the developed world has been consuming these goods for over 30 years and the direct link to an illness has not yet been made. With the introduction of Dicamba we no longer need the Roundup Ready gene in corn or soybeans, and the BT gene is obviously failing. Thus meaning GMO is no longer needed in corn and soybeans. It is also used in cotton and is still useful there.
@@microsoilenhancersinspirey5750 $5.17 the day I recorded that video, it’s $4.88 this minute. According to the banks the break even on corn here is producing 200 bushels per acre at a contract price of $5
@@microsoilenhancersinspirey5750 supply and demand. There is far less corn acres here. This is peanut and cotton country, but the chicken industry is huge here. Chickens don’t eat peanuts and cotton. Corn is hauled in from out west on trains b/c we can’t grow enough of it here to feed all the chickens. When corn gets up above $6 local then the acres increases. Peanut target is $600 a ton with 2.5-3 ton per acre yield. Cotton is currently below break even (as is corn @ $4.88)
@@PatrickShivers I looked at a farm in Alabama that had a standing 50 cent premium because of the chickens to corn ratio also.. Wonder why they build all them chicken houses where the food is scarce? Looks like you are growing good corn.. But diversity is what keeps a farm going.. And you seem to be diverse..
