I've done some trials of my own with Hybrid85 and in a good year the GMO seed usually beats it. In a bad year the Hybrid85 completely smokes the GMO (pioneer). I continue to plant both but I really like the lower investment of the Hybrid85. You should do a dryland trial next year. Really enjoy your content!
Glad you safely got the auger in place. I got dizzy just watching the video. I was guessing that the higher price for non-GMO corn would make it more profitable.
Maybe. But if you want Full Organic Certification, you have to go 3 years using ONLY Organic products for seed and nutrients. Just non GMO doesn't get you much extra premium $. Unless you are contracted for it.
@@nezrom9864 it is possible (but very difficult) to find some premium markets for the non-GMO. The overwhelming majority of non-GMO is sold mixed in with GMO.
@@PatrickShiversthat was my problem growing non gmo.. those premium contracts are hard to find.. I’ve had one in 5 years. It was a good one but one in 5 is hard to run an operation. Great information you provided!
Hope you do well . In my area , NC , we had a severe drought and some of the corn looks bad so I don’t know how the farmers did . It looks like a rough year for them.
@@johnscurlock1204 corn are at a historic low, soybeans and cotton are also through the floor. Safe bet to say everyone farming row crops is going to lose money this year.
C'mon Patrick! Heights don't hurt you! Falling doesn't hurt you. It's the landing that makes all the difference! I was happy to see the Dekalb come out ahead, not because I like Dekalb, but because I am a believer in GMO being a better way to go if you want to stay in the business. 👍👍
Dekalb does inventory straight conventional hybrids as well as RR only. You got to plant refuge with Bt anyway, you can always put your refuge in a block and do yield checks. Thinking about swapping around to a conventional Dekalb for next year, although I do like having the option for Roundup for grass control.
In many cases, Non GMO produces equal or higher yields there's been a trend of returning to non GMO in recent years where farmers don't really see any benefits with growing GMO anymore.
*in RARE cases non-GMO yields higher (per all field trial data I’ve seen and per the producers of non-GMO seed). The benefit is it doesn’t have to yield as high to make more money. In this trial that wasn’t the case. The Dekalb yielded enough to cover the difference in seed price and then some. It costs $84.25 less per acre (equivalent of 19 bushels)to grow the non-GMO, but the Deklab made 23.5 more bushels per acre than the non GMO.
Dekalb. The exact purchase price is in multiple videos along the planting/growing season as I conducted the experiment. I don’t remember currently the exact number but it was +$300 a bag.
Was rooting for the hybrid, it looked really close. We have filled our bin, everyone needs to while the gettin is good. Went with a 15/85% soybean meal/cracked corn for not much more $ than 3-way commodity mix.
Just curious why aren’t you growing cannabis? My dream in life is to farm cannabis and turn it into to extracts. The margarine seem better in weed than corn the more I watch you. But I’m sure I’m missing lots of aspects if the business. I love the videos Lee it up!
@@tonyhorton152 you’re missing a double LOT. I went to several meetings when they were rolling out hemp farming in Georgia for the CBD industry. It’s virtually impossible to grow for a profit while adhering to the regulations (no herbicides or pesticides allowed and every known pest that effects any crop in GA doubly effects hemp). I met a farmer that grows it green houses. He said the only way to keep it from “going hot” (breaching the legal thc content level) with our growing conditions is to pay off the inspector. According to the people in the industry I have conversed with no one has successfully done it yet.
I have some friends in Alabama was approached about growing hemp said they couldn’t make any money on it also too many regulations. They just sticking with cotton.
@@danielbrown8105 yes you can. I sell direct to several hunters/wild life enthusiasts. Most have a trailer to park under the out feed auger. A few just lay a tarp in their truck bed and let it overhang the sides. I fill them up and then they fold tarp over the top and tie in place (so corn is then completely encapsulated in tarp in truck bed). All buyers get an empty and a loaded weight at peanut mill 4 miles down the road so we can charge accurately. $7 a bushel.
So the dekalb gmo corn yield is still more profitable with that yeild than the hybrid 85 yeild when you add in the seed price? There is a huge price difference in the corn seed prices right?
@@Don-pq5gg that’s what we were talking about. There was a 19 bushel cushion b/c of seed price difference, but Dekalb overcame the 19 bushels plus 3.4 more
@@PatrickShivers. In my book I’d say Hybrid85 won that contest hands down. At the end of the day, there’s a whole lot more money being put in upfront with dekallb to chase 3 1/2 bushels. That’s a whole lot of risk for not much return. I’ve found hybrid85 to consistently be in that yield margin compared to the expensive stuff. In our world it’s hard to justify the expensive seed chasing a 3-5 bushel advantage.
@@byronglover7998 the hybrid85 cost $85/acre less to grow. That gave them a 19 bushel cushion at current corn prices. Dekalb covered the 19 plus 4 more. That means Dekalb made about $16 more profit/acre.
@@BestFarmROI I’m fine working on top of the bin sitting down. To get those chains undone I have to stand up on the highest point of bin and reach up as high above my head as I can, that part gets me nervous. I’ve been climbing up bins since I was 12, I’m currently 42 and I have never once seen someone use a safety harness while climbing on one.
Those augers are very dangerous I worked on a farm when I was a kid and the owner got killed by one of those just like you were working on wind blew it down on him he was under it.
