Dominique
Wilkins from the Atlanta Hawks was the rookie of note and the recipient of
Larry’s talents (both physically and verbally) on this particular night of NBA
action in April of 1983. Sure enough, Larry’s unbreakable confidence led
him to 39 points and a Celtic team blow-out road win (117-95). Dominique
led his team with 16 points for the game, but the disappointing loss did not
get him down. Rather, it helped spur Dominique to dramatically improve in
the off-season and by his fourth NBA campaign, the Hawks team would start a
streak of 50 win seasons and Dominique himself became a perennial All-Star
player.
https://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/198304050ATL.html
We
may have young employees on our farm teams that make mistakes every now and
then, but it’s not the mistakes that count – it’s how they respond.
Employees that always keep their head-up and look for ways to improve are the
ones that eventually become super valuable. Your personal leadership and
patience in coaching and mentoring these young folks is critical in their
development. Taking the time with your young employees when they are
impressionable goes a long way to keeping your team strong and flexible for the
future. Like most businesses, there is always a bit of turn-over, and you
never know when an opportunity may arise when you’ll need some of your younger
employees to step-up and become an All-Star type player.
Regional Weather
Well,
we seen a bit of snow on Sunday, and the potential for more precipitation
between now and Christmas is likely, but in fairly low quantities. Temperatures will ratchet down a notch this
week as daily high temps won’t get above the freezing mark. Without any significant snow cover, ambient
air temperatures will most likely stay in an above average range due to
absorption versus reflection of the sun’s rays.
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 week entailing Christmas
this December, the forecast is to have greater chances of above average temperatures
as well as slightly above average chances on the precipitation front. Unless its significant precipitation as snow,
our above average temperature conditions could continue.
The NOAA
organization also provides three month outlooks. If we would like to get a general forecast
for the start of the 2021 growing season (May-June-July), it can be seen here:
https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/long_range/seasonal.php?lead=6
This forecast
currently predicts equal chances on both the temperature and precipitation
front for our region. Equal chances or
EC, reveals a forecast of equal proportion of both above and below average
conditions developing. A neutral forecast
for the key months of the season is usually a good sign, but with our lingering
dry conditions, it could trend to place us in a spot where conserving moisture
in the spring will be key.
Interesting to
note, most of the Midwest in this May-June-July forecast is predicted for greater
chances of above average precipitation and slightly above average temperatures over
this time frame. It could set the stage
nicely for some above trend yields in the Midwest, Eastern Corn Belt, and
through to the Carolina’s.
Currently,
their soybeans are finishing flowering and being sprayed for rust while the
corn is pollinating. Therefore, the
crops are far enough along to be impacted by periods of adverse weather. As I’m sure you are mostly aware, there have
been widespread concerns with dry conditions in the region. During the first week of December, most areas
received some rain, but rainfall totals were not as consistent or widespread as
many were hoping. For a reminder, 25 mm
is equal to an inch, and the corn and soybeans are needing about 1.5 to 2
inches (or 37-50) mm per week currently.
The
current LaNina weather pattern is forecasted to give precipitation favor to
central Brazil, but trend normal to southern Brazil and Argentina. As usual, we’ll look to see what develops
later this month and into January.
http://www.soybeansandcorn.com/Brazil-Crop-Cycles https://www.dtnpf.com/...2020/12/10/central-brazil-rain-results...
Russian
Winter Grain Condition
Earlier this month, Reuters provided a report on the Russian winter wheat conditions. In 2019, Russia exported the largest US dollar volume ($6.4 bil or 16.7% of world exports) of wheat worldwide, but the US and Canada were a close second and third in the rankings by worldexports.com.
Russian farmers had dry conditions to sow into this autumn and this was especially true in the southern regions of the country. It is estimated that 22% of the Russian wheat crop is in poor condition, which is the highest since 2013. However, the remainder of the crop (78%) is in good to satisfactory condition. Forecasters have a prediction estimate of 4-8% less wheat from the region this year versus prior year at this time. If it’s like our US winter wheat crop in the High Plains region, it will live like a cat with 9-lives and find a way to prosper before the end of the winter wheat cycle.
http://www.worldstopexports.com/wheat-exports-country/ https://www.agriculture.com/markets/newswire/share-of-russias-winter...
Product
Spotlight: Kyber™ herbicide
Corteva® has a new soybean pre-emerge herbicide out this winter named Kyber™. Like most new products in the herbicide world, Kyber™ will have various components in the jug. Specifically speaking for Kyber™, it will contain, flumioxazin (Valor™), metribuzin (Sencor™), and pyroxasulfone (Zidua™). Targeted weeds include our tough to control glyphosate resistance spectrum of waterhemp, palmer amaranth, kochia, and common ragweed as well as common lambsquarter, redroot pigweed, foxtails, and barnyardgrass.
Supplies
are available for use this coming spring season. Use rate is fairly low at 1.0 pint/ac for
most field scenarios.
Label:
https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/agrian-cg-fs1-production/pdfs/Kyber_Label1.pdf
Record High
Red-meat Output for US
Production
of domestic red-meat volume for the month of October climbed to a record high
since data on the topic started to accumulate in 1944. Earlier this calendar year in May, US red-meat
production dipped to a 5-year low due to the pandemic affecting slaughter
plants. Please remember that both pork
and beef constitute the red-meat class.
Commercial
slaughter head count numbers were down a bit compared to the same month
(October) a year ago, indicating heavier animal weights boosted the output. Chinese imports of US beef set another record
with 12.6 mil pounds in October– up 2 mil pounds from the August record.
This
should bode well for grain utilized for animal feed and support strong US beef and
pork herd numbers going into 2021.
https://farmpolicynews.illinois.edu/2020/11/record-high-u-s-red-meat...
AgPlenus
Trying to Bring New MOA Herbicide to Market
AgPlenus is a crop protection company that focuses on remaining at the innovation level for new products through highly advanced biology and chemistry. Earlier this month, they announced reaching the “lead stage” (research marker level nearing commercialization) for a brand-new herbicide within their novel mode of action (MOA) herbicide program. The new herbicide molecule is touted as controlling many of today’s tough to control herbicide resistant weed species.
It’s good news to finally hear of some truly unique herbicide chemistries that have a strong potential to make an impact towards the future of agriculture and our weed management tactics. Yes, we have had new herbicides hit the market over the past 10-15 years, but they are just new herbicides under an existing class of chemistry that has already been developed. A new MOA herbicide hasn’t been developed since the late 1980’s with HPPD inhibitors (i.e. mesotrione or Calisto™).
One
of my favorite all-time weed science professors would say that today’s weeds
are getting so diverse genetically that they could easily be resistant to new
herbicide sites of action. Therefore,
moving into the future, I think it will take additional innovation beyond just new
herbicides to stay ahead of the challenge of weed control. Herbicides will most likely always be a
primary part of our weed management tactics, but I think technology will begin
to introduce some additional innovative ideas to stay ahead of the challenge. It will be interesting to see how the
landscape evolves over the upcoming 15-20 years in this regard.
http://news.agropages.com/News/NewsDetail---37482.htm https://naldc.nal.usda.gov/download/55079/PDF
Rural
Broadband Capabilities to Enhance Dramatically
DTN’s
Ag Summit virtual conference was held earlier this month and one of the key
note speakers discussed the opportunity ongoing with bringing faster and more
reliable data signals to rural areas for agriculture producers. Having the capability of a consistent data
signal or wi-fi signal across the farm will lead to a greater ability to
collect valid data and I would think even more innovation in the area.
Recently,
the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is expanding access that will allow
scientists to work on a spectrum called “TV white space”. If I understand it correctly, a rural farm
house with broadband service will be able to acquire hardware will be able to
emit the wi-fi signal through empty over-the-air TV channel wavelengths that
will be able to reach as far as 10-20 miles or more. I would think this technology could come
fairly quick and would be a big boost to access data more timely and drive even
better and quicker decision making for our farm managers.
https://www.dtnpf.com/...2020/12/16/fcc-ruling-tv?referrer=NLSnapshot
Random
Agricultural Facts – Tractor Pull History
I’m not sure about you, but when I was a kid, the tractor pulling event at the state or county fair was always a favorite attraction. It was interesting, but not surprising, to read this week that the first tractor pull-sleds became outdated fairly quickly as tractor horsepower modifications were easily able to out-perform the sled since the sled was a fixed constant weight. It brings to question, what were the first modifications to the sled (before the self-adjusting weight altering sleds)?
It was people weight. Yes! People
actually jumped on the sled in a progressive fashion as the tractor and sled
moved down the track. At many events,
the people were also the paying spectators!
Obviously, liability and safety concerns let to the invention of the
automated weight exchanging sled. It was
the late 1960’s when the weight exchange sled was first invented and
implemented at such events. If you were
a spectator or even maybe had a family member as a participant in some of these
events back in the early 1960’s, I’d love to hear your experiences!
https://livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe50s/machines_09.html
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