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Kentucky | Everyone is talking about the cost of the wheat crop, but I always consider the fall dry fertilizer cost (including application) with at least 1/2 going to the double crop beans. Liming costs should be divided over the crop years by crop as well. I haven't run the 2009 numbers yet, but I have yet to see a year that 80 bushel wheat and 35 bu. beans didn't beat full season beans in the 45-50 bu. area. Wet natured soils are the only exception because wheat performs poorly there.
If you lay ALL of the fertilizer costs to the wheat and figure no costs to the double crop beans it will skew your numbers much like the guy who doubles up on corn fertilizer and doesn't fertilize beans the following year and thinks the beans are cheap to plant.
If the comparison is single crop wheat versus single crop beans, I'd go with beans, but that's not a good comparison here in the midsouth where there is good double crop potential ------------- (well, most years. 2007 really bombed.). | |
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Will SRW Go the Way of Cotton in west TN?
