Cambridge, southwestern Nebraska | They have rules to go by. What we usually do when they don't think it is very bad (but it is), is leave strips or a few plots through the field and they can come back later at maturity and appraise it then. It usually always gets worse out in the field in a narrow strip. Especially if you fallow around the strips or plant a different crop beside it.
You just have to learn to work with the rules given to them and figure out how to best put those rules to your advantage. I always like it at the end of the season when I can tell the adjuster "I told you so". Experience goes a long ways. A farmer knows when a plant has had it. Few times have the adjusters been right when they say "it will recover". |