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CORN 2020 Tuesday, January 28, 2020  |  globegazette.com  |  SECTION D

North Iowa farmer, national board member talks production STEVEN THOMPSON

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‌“This report is a non-event. The numbers are what they are and we will move on,” said Chris Edgington after the Jan. 10, USDA 2019 Corn Crop report was released. While many experts believed the final report would lower corn yields, and show fewer corn acres in 2019, the released information stayed close enough to former reporting that it failed to produce a rally in the corn market. Edgington, who is a director on the National Corn Growers Board, was hoping for a spike in corn prices when the report was published. Edgington Edgington grain farms with his brother and son northwest of St. Ansgar, in Mitchell County. “Some of our focuses on the Corn Growers Board was getting the USMCA Trade Agreement through the Senate. The Senate just ratified the agreement and now the president has to sign it. Then we will have to wait for Canada to ratify the agreement,” said Edgington. The USMCA Trade Agreement had been passed in the US House of Representatives in December. Speaking of positive events that might promote higher corn prices Edgington said, “On January 15 the president signed Phase One of the China Trade Agreement, but we don’t have many of the details. It does sound positive for Agriculture. We are also continuing to educate and promote sales of ethanol, especially E-15, which can now be sold year-round, throughout the country. It was a challenging year both on the production and trade front, but we did have some wins as well.” Speaking about world trade and tariffs Edgington said, “Agriculture wants free trade agreements around the world, but if politics prevent free trade, then measures need to be taken to help level out the financial cost to agricultural producers.” He believes corn exports will continue to increase once trade agreements are ratified. “As the world economies grow, higher protein foods will be more in demand,” Edgington said. “China is a big example of this as they consume 40 pounds more meat protein than they did 20

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Mitch Huftalin loads corn at Osage Coop Elevator.

Duane Wagner unloads corn at Osage Coop Elevator.

Rail cars are moved to load out corn for Canada at Osage Coop Elevator.

years ago. Parts of Africa, India, as well as Southeast Asia household median incomes are improving, which is good for meat consumption. This will cause an increase in demand for corn and soybeans both globally and domestically. “Still, African Swine Fever in China and Southeast Asia has had a detrimental effect on their domestic meat supplies. It will take

more weather issues. Early planting predictions are from 93 to 94 million acres for the US in 2020.” Corn is not only used for human consumption and livestock feed, but for industrial uses as well. Today more than 4,000 products are manufactured out of corn: plastics, carpet, fructose sweetener, carriers for medicines, perfumes, and antibiotics are a few.

years to restock their swine herds. These countries will be looking to buy meat products from exporting countries including the US,” he said. Looking at current global corn production Edgington said, “Mother Nature has such an effect on world production. Currently Brazil is talking of a large corn crop, but Argentina has

“The corn plant is an amazing plant. Look at the weather in the US last year, and all the other challenges we faced, and we still raised a 168 bushels of corn to an acre, which is simply amazing. Corn farmers are continually looking to utilize fewer inputs, and still produce a high quality crop, while both improving air and water quality,” Edgington said.

Ouversons say conservation practices aid in corn production STEVEN THOMPSON

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‌The Ouverson family who farm southwest of Fertile believe that conservation practices not only help to improve soil health, reduce soil erosion, and improve water quality, but the practices

also reduce labor and machinery costs, which adds profits to their corn production. Jerry Ouverson and his sons Jeff and Jon began strip tilling in 2003 and in 2014, they added cover crops to their conservation practices in their row crop fields.

“We bought a high-residue cultivator in 2002, and in 2003 we modified it, and transformed it into a strip tilling machine. This will be the 18th year that we have used strip tilling,” said Jerry. “We started strip tilling because we didn’t think we needed to do all

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that tilling.” “The practice saved time, and wear and tear on equipment, and we didn’t have to rush to get all the tiling done every year,” said Jon. Time in the Ovuerson operation is at a premium. “I’ve got a full-time job and we

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Sponheim’s good deed turns to a way of farming STEVEN THOMPSON

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‌ I liked to do a lot of trial “ work, and we do a lot of it for customers over a three year period. I had a Pioneer customer who wanted us to try it to see if this system was economical. After two years of trials it proved to be so good, that we changed our own operation over Sponheim to the strip crop method,” said Dean Sponheim, who is a local Pioneer seed salesman and operates Sponheim Sales and Services which, specializes in custom strip tilling and cover crop applications. Driving by Sponheim’s farm fields located southwest of Osage, one sees the unusual sight of eight rows of corn alternated with eight rows of soybeans. “This is not a new concept. In the 70’s quite a few farmers were doing it. Back in the 80’s one of my neighbors was trying it, but it wasn’t very well accepted. We started doing our stripe-cropping back in 2008,” said Sponheim. The 20-foot-wide alternating strips are set up in eight 30-inch rows of corn alongside eight 30-inch rows of soybeans. Crops are rotated the following year, and seeds are planted in the center of previous year’s rows to stay away from decaying root balls and root masses. This creates a better environment for new seeds to germinate and grow in. Sponheim plants the same seed population as a traditional corn farmer, and only plants one crop for end rows, alternating them from one year to the next. In the future, he hopes

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Dean Sponhheim’s acres present a different look than one is used to seeing when looking at crops. to use the same seed population per acre, but plant a higher population in the outer four corn rows where there is more sun and air, while reducing seed populations for the inner four rows, which could create even higher yields. Applying herbicide in the strips is much more difficult than applying them in regular fields, because he uses different herbicides for corn and soybeans. He uses a special sprayer with hoods over the nozzles. “With our sprayer we have sprayed with a good breeze, and never had any chemical drift, from one crop to the other,” said Sponheim. Though it takes longer to spray a field, and about 30 percent more time to harvest the first crop, because the combine operator can only dump at the ends, he says his cropping system pays off financially. “On average an eightrow strip of corn will out yield regular corn from 10 to 12 percent, but you also have about a 2 to 5 percent decline in soybean yields,” said Sponheim. “We also find with the extra movement of air corn matures quicker and is dryer, so we

can harvest earlier. We have experimented using fourand six-row strips, and found corn yields shot up nearly 30 percent, but soybeans yields plummeted by the same percentage, which isn’t profitable.” The key to the increased corn yields is the outside corn rows get additional sunlight and wind, which increases photosynthesis and creates cooler fields during extreme heat. Sponheim emphasized the rows must run north-south for the cropping system to work. With east-west rows the taller corn over shades soybeans driving down soybean yields. “GPS systems on equipment helps, but a farmer can also use strip tilling to layout this row crop system,” said Sponheim. “This isn’t for large farmers. I would say it works well on farms of 700 acres of less. This can work for a smaller farmer who can’t increase their acres, but they want to increase their income.” This crop system and other conservation practices were viewed last summer, when Iowa State University Regional Extension Agronomist visited the Sponheim farm.

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‌ he new corn technolT ogy that attaches nitrogen-producing microbes to corn plant roots, may be the next great advance in corn production. The new Pivot Bio Proven technology has proven to produce 25 pounds of nitrogen per Peterson acre, and as research and development continues, it is hoped that nitrogen production per corn acre will soon double. Lisa Peterson, who farms with her husband J.R., north of Osage, first came in contact with the new product in 2019. Peterson has been involved in Agriculture since graduating Osage High School. In 1998 and 1999 she served as National FFA President and later graduated from Iowa State University with degrees in agronomy and ag business. Currently she does consultant work for Beck Ag and last year she facilitated several conference calls for the Pivot Bio Proven product. She was asked to help search out 250 corn growers throughout the United States to try the newly developed product. Lisa and J.R. used the microbial product on their own corn acres in 2019. The initial microbial research was done by two graduate students from the University of California-San Francisco who were working on their doctorate

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side dressing of nitrogen when corn plants need it most. In trials it showed the nitrogen production from the microbes began to rise at the V3 to V5 stage of the plant’s growth peaking production around the V8 stage of the plants vegetative growth. Then, like regular sources of supplemental nitrogen, the microbes begin to slow their nitrogen production as corn ears set and begin to mature. According to field trials conducted by the company in 2018, Pivot Bio Proven outperformed synthetic nitrogen by 7.7 bushels per acre and it was even more beneficial for sandy soils where nitrogen leaches at a much higher rate. Peterson, who is a local sales rep, says on their own farm where fertilization has always been kept at a high level, they saw a boost of five bushels to an acre in corn yields. She said the product can fit into a farmer’s current fertilization program in two practical ways. “You can either use the product in addition to the nitrogen you are currently putting on, or you can use it to replace 25 lbs. of synthetic nitrogen sources,” she said.

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With our situation it’s a labor saver,” said Jeff. Strip tilling is different from conventional tilling where all the soil is tilled. Typically a strip till farmer only rips open an 8 to 10 inch strip every 20 to 22 inches leaving the rest of the soil untouched. The machine has a mole knife that digs from 6 to 8 inches with an attached liquid fertilizer tube so fertilizer can be incorporated into the strip. The tilling process creates a 4- to 5-inch berm of black soil where the planter will deposit the corn seed in the spring. A farmer saves time, fuel, labor and compaction of the soil, with fewer trips across a field. “Strip tilling prevents water runoff, and increases the soil’s ability to hold water. If you use strip tilling for 3 or 4 years you will see a lot less ponding in your fields,” said Jon. Another major conservation practice was added to the Ouversons’ fields in 2014 when they began using cover crops. In the fall of the year they fly on or drill cereal rye into their fields. The rye usually emerges in the fall and the hearty vegetation begins growing and expanding a root system below the ground. Because the hearty cover crop greens up as the snow melts, it has several inches of growth before corn planting time. Producers kill off the green growth with a burndown spray a few days prior to planting into the black strips that were tilled. Another major benefit of the early spring growth of cover crops is they take up nutrients, which otherwise would run off or leach and end up in waterways and streams. The two practices create a much healthier soil with added bio-mass that creates a sponge-like effect

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Mole knife and covering colters on the Ouverons’ home-built strip tiller. that keeps water and nutrients from running off, soils are more aerated because of the cover crops’ root systems. Corn produces have nicer seed beds, with less soil crusting after intense rains, and the Ouversons say they get into their fields one to two days quicker. “Our seed dealer goes around with a weight wagon in the fall, and he says we are

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often as needed throughout the winter to keep grain cool. Even after cooling, grain can warm in storage bins in the winter by solar heating on the bin roof and south-facing walls. It is important to remember that the time required to fully aerate a bin (to cool grain and even out grain temperatures) depends on the fan size, or airflow. A small aeration fan (0.1 cfm/bushel) can take nearly a week to fully cool a bin of corn. Err on the side of running the fan too long to prevent uneven grain temperatures. Run aeration cycles when the averages between the daily high and low temperatures are near 30-35 degrees. This winter, as you are monitoring grain condition weekly and aerating as needed, be sure to inspect and probe the grain for crusting, damp spots and warm spots. Smell the first flush of exhaust air after

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