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We Nevada hayseeds don’t understand bushels. Is 170 bushel per acre below average, average or above average?

170 bushels per acre with no fertilizer and natural rain isn't bad. Now with the hybrid corn, fertilizer and herbicides 220 bushels an acre is almost the norm. But it's not what you grow but what you get to keep.

In the 1940s with single cross corn 90 bushels per acre was good. Then you had to pick it by hand so 80 bushels a day was all you could pick. That would be an acre a day.

I was told in Wichita 200 bushels per acre are possible but with center pivot irrigation costs breakeven is 190 bushels per acre.

Watching the online auctions today a Deere 4020 brought $19,000. This is SHOCKING These mid 60s tractors have been holding at $10,000 for the last 30 years.