Input costs are downright crazy right now, and the grain markets are far from stable. These factors -- and others -- make it tough to nail down how you can best maximize your inputs and expenses when it comes to crop rotation.

 

So, when everything else is so up-in-the-air, it's causing some farmers to take a balanced approach as they look ahead to '09 crop rotations. There are factors today that play a larger role in crop rotation decisions, but for many, it's what makes the most agronomic sense that goes through the planter tubes in the spring.

 

"We're sticking with our usual corn-soybeans-and some wheat rotation. We've worked the pencil on input costs and futures prices and don't see any economic reasons to override the agronomic reasons that lead us to rotate," says Agriculture Online Crop Talk member cz4586. "We're pretty much locked in now. We've booked our seed and have spread fertilizer."

 

 
 
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