Poll Archive
What mix of corn/beans will you plant this spring?
- An Even corn/bean rotation: 57%
- More corn than usual: 28%
- More beans than usual: 13%
- Yes: 22%
- No Thank Goodness: 77%
- Nothing: 12%
- Apply more nitrogen than soil test recommend : 1%
- Split applications: 49 %
- Use nitrogen enhancer product: 36%
- 26,0001 to 28,000 seeds/acre: 7%
- 28,001 to 30,000 seeds/acre: 15%
- 30,001 to 32,000 seeds/acre: 22%
- 32,001 to 34,000 seeds/acre: 30%
- 34,001 to 36,000 seeds/acre: 13%
- >36,000 seeds/acre: 4%
- No: 20%
- Yes - Pre-emergence only without post-emergence herbicide applications: 8%
- Yes - Pre-emergence followed by post-emergence herbicide applications: 70%
- My soils: 24%
- My agronomic practices: 3%
- Rainfall: 61%
- Terrain: 3%
- Manpower: 3%
- Other: 3%
- 140,000 seeds/acre: 22%
- 150,000 seeds/acre: 36%
- 160,000 seeds/acre: 17%
- 170,000 seeds/acre: 24%
- My net farm income this year will probably fall in the top 25% of the past 10 years I’ve farmed.: 50%
- In the top 50% of the past 10 years I’ve farmed: 31%
- In the bottom half: 9%
- In the bottom 25%: 9%
- Robert Bergland: 4%
- Earl Butz: 27%
- John Block: 7%
- Clayton Yeutter: 4%
- Dan Glickman: 12%
- Ann Veneman: 0%
- Mike Johanns: 41%
- Other: 0%
- Glyphosate-resistant crops: 60%
- Management information systems: 13%
- Precision-ag technology: 13%
- Larger, smarter tractors: 7%
- Larger, smarter combines: 5%
- Newer or bigger equipment: 27%
- More management know-how: 22%
- Better info technology and the knowledge to use it: 22%
- Additional labor: 0%
- Machinery sharing with other partners: 27%
- I don’t know which type of resistance my varieties use.: 26%
- Yes, SCN is a real problem for me.: 40%
- No, SCN is not much of a problem where I farm.: 33%
- In the next 5 years: 30%
- In the next 10 years: 35%
- Not likely: 33%
- I have enough other things to do.: 23%
- Payments for doing so should be higher.: 41%
- My operation is not suited to no-till.: 34%
- Neighbors and friends: 20%
- Farm magazines and Web sites: 24%
- Extension: 10%
- Other Web sites: 3%
- Meetings/field days: 37%
- Other: 3%
Do you still have unharvested corn in your fields?
How do you manage nitrogen fertilizer applications to overcome potential losses from volatilization and/or leaching?
What is your corn seeding rate? 26,000 seeds/acre or less: 6%
Do you use pre-emergence herbicides?
What is your largest yield limiting variable on your farm?
What is your typical soybean seeding rate?
How would you rank your projected net farm income for this most recent crop year, compared to the past 10 years on your farm?
Who has been your favorite Secretary of Agriculture?
What has been the best farm invention in your lifetime?
What would provide you the biggest efficiency/profitability gains?
Do you rotate your soybean varieties based on type of resistance in order to fight SCN?
How likely is it that you’ll harvest 100-bu. soybeans?
What is the primary reason that you have not enrolled in a voluntary carbon sequestration program that pays you for no-till practices?
Where do your best ideas come from to improve farm profitability?
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