“Nah, why go for it when you’re up by 30? I already did enough damage… I can get one any time I want. That’s not why I play!” – Larry “Legend” Bird on a night when he only needed one additional steal on the stat sheet to complete a quadruple double
Yep,
Larry Bird tortured the opponents again on this evening of NBA history in February of
1985, by recording some impressive numbers in only 33 minutes of playing time –
30 points, 12 rebounds, 10 assists and 9 steals – while sitting out the entire
4th quarter in a lopsided Boston Celtic road win (110-94) in Utah. If he would have gotten that one additional steal,
it would have been only the second recorded quadruple double in NBA league
history at the time and first with the categories of points, rebounds, assists,
and steals (Nate Thurmond had the first in 1974 with points, rebounds, assists,
and blocked shots).
https://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/198502180UTA.html
Why
do you enjoy the business of farming?
What motivates you to wake-up every day, and lace-up the old work
boots? There are many ways to look at
improving our businesses and also many ways to find the personal motivation to
bring the farm to greater levels of success.
Whatever your plan may entail, the Pioneer strategy around strategic large
farms, is to help you succeed with your ideas moving forward. Myself and the resources around us at Pioneer
can help you achieve the goals you set for your business. All it takes is some confidence to confide in
our team beyond the bag of seed.
Weather and
Corn Development
Well,
well, well, it looks like we will have one final burst of perfect autumn
weather before much cooler to cold temperatures return for the far northern plains
over the weekend and into next week. Even
with the nice weather we will only garner about 30-35 GDD’s this week (it is
early November). These 30 heat units or
so should dry the grain about 1.5 points over the next five days. Parts of western N. Dakota are forecasted for
8-12” of snow beginning this Saturday morning.
Hopefully, most farm operations can finish-up any remaining harvest and
field work ambitions this week.
I’ll count on your weather app
for the best guidance through the 7-8 day forecast, but looking beyond that,
I’ve found this site from NOAA to be fairly reliable for a general 8-14 day
outlook (next week). https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/814day/index.php
For the second week in November,
the forecast is to have significantly greater chances of below average temperatures
and equal chances on the precipitation.
The NOAA group
also provides three month outlooks. If
we would like to get a general forecast for the upcoming three months of winter
(Dec-Jan-Feb), it can be seen here:
https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/long_range/seasonal.php?lead=2
This forecast
currently predicts below average temperatures for our region, while also
calling for above average chances on the precipitation outlook. Hopefully, we’ll get plenty of sunshine to
keep us in good spirits!
US Crop
Progress
The USDA estimates corn harvest at 82% of the
way completed for the year across the US, and the soybean harvest at 87% completed
across the nation as well (last week 72% and 83% respectively). For North Dakota, these numbers are 84% for
corn (48% for the 5-year average in the state) and 100% for soybeans (85% for
the 5-year average).
https://usda.library.cornell.edu/concern/publications/8336h188j?locale=en
The National Sunflower Association (NSA)
estimated the nation’s sunflower harvest progress at 64% complete which is
about 10% ahead of the 5-year average. North
Dakota is at 69% harvested and Minnesota is basically wrapped-up with its
sunflowers with a report at 97% harvested.
South Dakota is the lagging state at only 50% of the sunflower harvest
complete.
This will complete our tracking of the US
Crop Progress Reports for the 2020 growing season.
Dicamba – EPA Ruling
As you all know, last week the EPA granted approval for dicamba formulations to be utilized in RR2Xtend® soybeans. This EPA ruling puts in place the framework for the individual states to begin registering the specified products. The dicamba products related to this announcement are XtendiMax™ (Bayer®), Enginia™ (BASF®), and Tavium™ (Syngenta®). Corteva’s® Fexepan™ will follow Bayer’s® lead with XtendiMax™ since both herbicides are identical and Bayer® was the initial registrant. Tavium™ is an in-the-jug mix of dicamba and s-metolachlor (Dual II Magnum™).
A couple of additional label restrictions were implemented at the federal level:
· A nation-wide cut-off date in soybeans
of June 30 (July 30 for cotton)
· Required addition of “pH buffering
adjuvant” or VRA (volatility reduction agent)
· Increased width of buffer zones where
endangered species exist
BASF® is already looking to fill the
need of a pH buffering adjuvant with the launch of Sentris™ Buffering
Technology. BASF® is also looking to
bring a new dicamba mix into the market – Enginia Prime® (no label yet, but
awaiting EPA approval). Enginia Prime®
will be an in-the-jug mix of dicamba, pyroxasulfone (Zidua™), and imazethapyr
(Pursuit™) – we’ll see what the crop rotation restrictions may entail for our
region.
https://agriculture.basf.us/content/dam/cxm/agriculture/crop-prot...
https://www.cottonfarming.com/breakingnews/basf-updates...
China Has Ramped-up Phase I Purchasing
Well, there is finally some additional good
news coming to light regarding the China-US trade pact in relation to Phase I
targets. And, with the continual climb
of the markets, it should come as no surprise that China has dramatically
ramped-up their buying over the past couple months to try and fulfill the
agreement.
One comment in this report (link below) is
that China is addressing a “multitude of structural barriers” within their
country to handle more exports of US ag-commodities and food products. These structural barriers primarily entail tariffs
or flat-out bans of US produced goods.
Some of these restrictions that are now lifted include: the ban of US
poultry, ban on beef over 30 months of age, and limitations on pet food. These policy updates will continue to benefit
US exports for the foreseeable future.
To date, this report claims that 50 of the 57 technical commitments outlined
for less Chinese regulations towards the US have been implemented.
I’ll
include the corn and soybean US sales into China (see charts) for the calendar
year through the first week of October to note the Chinese buying trend over
the past couple months. As of early
October, China is at 71% of it’s Phase I target with three months to go. Additional charts are available for sorghum,
beef, pork, etc. at the following link (it’s full of insight):
https://ustr.gov/sites/default/files/assets/files/interim-report-on-ag... https://farmpolicynews.illinois.edu/2020/10/china-has-purchased-71%...
EPA Celebrates 50 Years – New Vision
The
golden anniversary for the EPA has the agency looking forward, and finding ways
to work with the agriculture sector in the best interest of all Americans for
decades to come. The EPA administrative
leader, Andrew Wheeler, outlines several methods the agency should currently
adapt:
· Address environmental burdens that communities
face by working more cohesively as an EPA team – re-organizing regional
offices, implementing a leaner management team, and making public thousands of
guidance documents in a database
· Decreasing regulations and advancing innovation with
both GMOs and new pesticides
· Safeguard pollinators to support all aspects of
the ag industry
· Streamlining permits for from a federal
standpoint (more state authority)
The vision portrayed by Mr. Wheeler coincides nicely with most key businesses in the ag-sector. The outline portrayed by the EPA should give
clarity to everyone to create an even playing field, and meet an expectation that
the EPA’s goal is to service all aspects of the American public. Now, the big task for Mr. Wheeler will be to
get his vision implemented. I for one, wish him
good luck!
http://news.agropages.com/News/NewsDetail---36496.htm
There is a myriad of factors that go into a successful corn crop for the farm, and I’d love to know the 3-4 factors that you would rank at the top of the list. If your farm has drought tolerance, late season standability and Goss’s Wilt as key production factors, and you have a thirst for a 78 RM hybrid, then I would highly recommend Pioneer’s P7861AM to be a part of the corn acre mix in 2021.
The P7861AM has portrayed
good early season stand establishment even though this hybrid only rates at a
“4” for stress emergence (SE) (scale of 1-9 with 9 being best). With our in-house PST (Pioneer Stress Test)
protocols for hybrid corn seed cold germination evaluation, the SE trait gets
highly scrutinized as the testing procedures are much harsher than even we
typically endure under our natural cool and wet spring conditions.
The 2020 season was
the first season our Pioneer customers were able to see this hybrid across
whole fields from NW Minnesota to western N. Dakota. With this large swath of information across
the 2020 growing season, we did see areas of drought, areas of Goss’s Wilt,
areas of tough spring emergence concerns and even some late season stalk
pressure due to the dry conditions. This
P7861AM seemed to handle and perform through all the challenges. Please stay in touch with your Pioneer sales
agent for more insight on local performance data from your geography.
FBN® Makes
Strategic Move into the Seed Market
It
wasn’t my intention to write about FBN® two weeks in a row, but FBN® continues
to make headlines. Last week, they
announced their Canadian unit has made a purchase of the canola breeding
program from Cibus. Farmers in the
canola sector will recognize the name Cibus as they have been a minor player
with their non-GMO SU (sulfonylurea) herbicide tolerant products. The business transaction includes Cibus’s
canola breeding pipeline as well as a license to sell canola seed with Cibus’s
pod shatter reduction trait when it becomes commercially available.
In
conjunction with the Cibus news, FBN® Canada also announced a second purchase –
Haplotech Inc. Haplotech is based out of
Winnipeg, MB and specializes in servicing the seed breeding industry by
providing insight on breeding research, technical services, and consulting. Financial prices of the acquisitions were not
announced.
The Cibus acquisition does come with some risk for FBN® as we have already
witnessed numerous weed control failures with the SU technology and the
germplasm is not performing from a yield perspective – in fact, it’s well below
par. The Haplotech acquisition is the
key point here as it will be targeted to help FBN® more quickly improve the Cibus
canola germplasm to compete in the sector.
From Cibus’s standpoint, their strength in the market is the ability to develop
traits, and this sell-off of a seed genetics line should help them align more
fully with their strength.
Regardless
of your thoughts around FBN®, the investors seem to keep moving forward with
strong financial pockets, and support of their drive to succeed in the
ag-market.
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/.../FBN-Canada-Acquire...
Random Agricultural Facts – DST
- Benjamin Franklin in the mid to
late 1700’s was one of the first people to come up with the idea to reset
clocks in the summer months to conserve energy. However, many others are also noted with
thinking of the concept as well
- Germany was the first country in
the world to implement DST. It was
during the early parts of WWI (May 1916), and many European countries soon
followed
- The official date of US Congress’
implementation of DST occurred on March 9, 1918
- Today, only 40% of the world’s
countries observe DST. For
countries closer to the equator, daily sunlight hours are more consistent
throughout the calendar year and thus any perceived benefit is not
recognized
- Daylight Saving Time will resume
on the second Sunday in March next spring
- Recent alterations (2007 to
present) regarding “fall back” in the USA have delayed implementation
until the first Sunday in November.
My theory is this is the first weekend after Halloween and thus
gives the children additional daylight for safer evening festivities
- One logical reason not to
implement permanent DST year-round is for local school districts in
northern regions to have natural daylight during transportation of
children to and from school in the winter – for greater safety
implementation
- Due to lax laws around DST
implementation, at one point St. Paul and Minneapolis were on different
times due to local acceptance of DST
- Regardless of the time system,
there are currently only about 9 hours 54 min of daylight in a 24-hour
period in Grand Forks, ND
- Between now and Winter Solstice,
we will lose another 1 hour 31 minutes of daylight.
- The shortest day of the year for
Grand Forks, ND will result in only 8 hours and 23 minutes of daylight. Which is much better than Fairbanks, AK
at 3 hours and 41 minutes!
https://www.livescience.com/56048-daylight-saving-time-guide.html
https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/usa/grand-forks?month=12&year=2019
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