The Early Harvest Advantage with 100-Day Corn
26 Aug 242m 28s

One of the key benefits of this hybrid is its 100-day maturity, which allows for harvesting shortly after Labor Day. This early harvest timing is strategically important because it enables farmers to take advantage of a positive basis at ethanol plants. By delivering corn when the market demand is higher, they can potentially increase their return on investment (ROI).

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00:00 Hi, this is Kelly Garrett from Extreme Ag standing out here in the cornfield today with Mike Evans. It's a hundred day Integra number 50 81. 00:06 Now, most people probably aren't gonna come out and show you their a hundred day number in the middle of Iowa. 00:11 You know, that would typically be somebody further north. But I'm excited about this hybrid 00:14 because I'm gonna combine it right after Labor Day. I believe this corn is gonna be plus 200. You know, this is gonna be 2 10, 2 15, 220 bushel corn. 00:24 We'll take it out right after Labor Day. It'll provide some cow feed. We can turn the cows out. The pastures are starting to get short, 00:31 but the best thing is the positive basis I'll get at the ethanol plant. I believe that we will probably have this year, 00:38 a 20 cent positive basis where we're gonna go, as opposed to getting into the gut shot of harvest. 00:42 We could be 30 under, maybe 50 under. Let's just talk about a 50 cent difference in 200 bushel corn. 00:47 That's obviously a hundred dollars an acre. So, while we all wanna talk about raising big yields, what I want to talk about is raising a big ROI 00:54 and the positive basis here, and the ability to take this corn out is very valuable to me. 00:58 Today. We stand out here in this field. It's Friday, August 9th. On Wednesday the seventh, 01:03 we made the final R five application. Here we use cube and full tech. K cube is phosphorus, sulfur, boron, and copper. 01:10 Full tech K is obviously potassium, cobalt, and boron. We did that because of what the SAP test read. After we made the, uh, R two application. 01:20 Evans took the sample, got the SAP back, we made our final application. This corn's gonna fill out nicely. 01:25 We're packing weight into the kernels. The kernels are huge on this cob. Maybe I'm underestimating the yield a little bit. I hope so. 01:31 About 25% of the stocks out here have two ears. That's something we've been working for to try to, uh, build the best plant. 01:38 We feel that if we nutritionally balance the plant and let the plant reach its potential, the flex that we'll see are, are shooting second years. 01:45 We're starting to accomplish that temple, and Matt always want to say that it's not possible. I hope they're not right, but they're, 01:51 those are two pretty good farmers to debate things with. But like I said, 25% of the ears have two stalks. 01:57 Lot of bug pressure. This year around here we've got FMC Hero also in this R five application. 02:03 It's clean. There's no bugs. We did have to make a fungicide application. We do have a bit of common rust here. 02:08 Some people have talked about it coming in with the hurricane, things like that. But we did make a fungicide application as well 02:13 between the Integra corn, the spray tech R five application, and the hero protecting these plants from the bug pressure. 02:19 This crop looks really exciting. In less than a month, we'll be harvesting. I can't wait to go.

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