TAPS 2020 Sorghum Presentation

Krystle Rhoades Author

01/16/2021 Added

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Learn more about the 2020 TAPS Sorghum Competitions and the data that determined the winners.

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[00:00:00.100]Hey everybody, this is Chuck Burr,
[00:00:01.860]I'm an extension educator at North Platte, Nebraska,
[00:00:04.690]I'm here today to share with you our UNL Taps program
[00:00:07.500]Testing Ag Performance Solutions,
[00:00:09.620]with our 2020 Farm Management Competitions presentations.
[00:00:13.620]We did have a virtual presentation of awards on January 16th
[00:00:17.480]others on the leadership team with me,
[00:00:19.480]Dr. Daran Rudnick and Dr. Matt Stockton
[00:00:22.670]do most of the research out of North Platte,
[00:00:24.840]in addition, Cody Creech and Jessica Groskopf
[00:00:27.930]located out of Panhandle,
[00:00:29.480]Robert Tigner is a farm management
[00:00:31.930]educator based in North Platte
[00:00:33.580]and Jason Warren is an irrigation specialist
[00:00:35.670]down with Oklahoma State University.
[00:00:37.730]Jason started a couple of Taps competitions
[00:00:39.880]down in Oklahoma as well.
[00:00:42.260]Really like to thank our management team,
[00:00:44.350]they're the ones that do the day-to-day work
[00:00:46.220]on the Taps competition,
[00:00:47.790]and without them, this Taps program would not be available.
[00:00:51.790]You can see our participants that cover a pretty good
[00:00:54.610]chunk of the State of Nebraska,
[00:00:56.050]Southern half of Nebraska up in the Northeast
[00:00:59.060]and the Panhandle as well,
[00:01:00.770]we do have some participants in Oklahoma and Kansas,
[00:01:03.640]and of course, with Jason Warren
[00:01:05.090]and the Oklahoma State competitions,
[00:01:07.010]we have some Oklahoma participants as well.
[00:01:10.660]Really like to thank our partners and sponsors,
[00:01:12.760]without them, the Taps program would not be possible.
[00:01:16.360]Several financial institutions that provide cash to us
[00:01:19.590]that helps us to pay the awards out
[00:01:21.690]and also to have the awards banquet.
[00:01:24.030]Seed companies provide recommended hybrids
[00:01:26.340]and recommended seeding rates,
[00:01:28.000]and then they also provide seed
[00:01:29.930]if the farmer select those hydrants to be planted.
[00:01:32.960]The Ag Industry,
[00:01:34.370]those are all of our technology and service providers,
[00:01:37.360]most of those are provided free of charge
[00:01:39.350]to the Taps programs,
[00:01:40.740]really allows our participants the chance to be able to
[00:01:44.130]test out this technology
[00:01:45.660]before they implement it on their farm.
[00:01:48.320]Several commodity boards and regulatory agencies
[00:01:50.950]have been huge for us the last several years,
[00:01:53.290]the Corn Board, Nebraska Grain Sorghum Board,
[00:01:57.040]our National Sorghum Checkoff, as well as Colorado Corn,
[00:02:00.330]several natural resource districts,
[00:02:02.270]as well as Central Nebraska Public Power
[00:02:04.270]and Irrigation District
[00:02:05.480]providing support for the program as well.
[00:02:07.900]In addition, we have a USDA NRCS CIG grant that we receive
[00:02:12.210]so, support from them as well as Ogallala Water,
[00:02:15.160]the Nature Conservancy and the Rain Water Basin.
[00:02:19.840]So, the awards that we present, we give out a $2,000 cheque
[00:02:23.890]to the most profitable farm.
[00:02:25.590]This is calculated looking at their costs of production,
[00:02:28.610]how many dollars per bushel it cost them
[00:02:30.430]to produce the grain,
[00:02:31.750]in addition to how they marketed that grain,
[00:02:34.120]what price did they receive in the marketplace?
[00:02:37.190]We also give a $1,000 cheque
[00:02:39.570]to the highest input use efficiency farm,
[00:02:41.970]that takes a look at the water applied, the nitrogen applied
[00:02:45.570]and then how much of a yield response did they get
[00:02:48.230]for the inputs that they have?
[00:02:50.610]And then the third award is greatest grain yield,
[00:02:53.620]that's a cheque, a base amount of $500,
[00:02:56.730]but we multiply that by the percent of profitability
[00:02:59.640]of the most profitable farm.
[00:03:01.670]So, if a farm spends, you know,
[00:03:03.210]a lot of money on water and nitrogen
[00:03:05.340]and seed just to get that high yield,
[00:03:07.997]the profitability likely it's gonna be a little lower,
[00:03:10.460]so, then we adjust the cheque accordingly.
[00:03:14.640]So, the overview of our competition,
[00:03:16.510]it's based in North Platte
[00:03:17.740]at the West Central Research Extension and Education Center,
[00:03:21.080]the Sorghum Competition,
[00:03:22.510]we simulate a farm size at 1000 acres,
[00:03:25.510]so, even though the plots, which are fairly small,
[00:03:28.390]the three replications would amount to
[00:03:30.220]just less than an acre,
[00:03:31.970]the yield off of those plots is amped up or ramped up
[00:03:34.790]to 1000 acres so, the participants have a representative
[00:03:38.450]amount of bushels that they need to
[00:03:40.280]be able to market throughout the growing season.
[00:03:42.820]Management decisions they make,
[00:03:44.220]they select the crop insurance package,
[00:03:46.830]they select a hybrid and seeding rate,
[00:03:49.360]they tell us how much nitrogen and when to apply it,
[00:03:51.930]nitrogen can be applied pre-plant, side dress
[00:03:54.980]and through several fertigation options,
[00:03:57.570]irrigation management, they tell us how much water to apply
[00:04:00.660]and when to apply that and like I mentioned earlier,
[00:04:03.430]they'd have, you know, maybe
[00:04:04.960]close to 200,000 bushels that they need to market
[00:04:07.810]using basis contracts or forward contracts
[00:04:10.850]or selling on a cash market,
[00:04:12.820]a lot of different options
[00:04:13.990]for them to be able to market their grain during the season.
[00:04:17.500]So, the time of events,
[00:04:18.760]so, we did receive a pretty large
[00:04:20.410]CIG grant from the NRCS-USDA,
[00:04:23.680]Natural Resource Conservation Service
[00:04:26.500]and then we have a kickoff meeting in February every year
[00:04:29.380]and then the decisions start to roll in as
[00:04:32.040]they select a crop insurance package in March,
[00:04:35.260]pre-plant decisions, so, hybrid, seeding rate
[00:04:37.870]and a pre-plant nitrogen would be due on April,
[00:04:40.990]they can start irrigating after planting time,
[00:04:43.860]fertigations typically are based on
[00:04:46.170]growth stages of the plants as we move through the season,
[00:04:49.027]and we do have some field days in the summer,
[00:04:51.510]of course, irrigating this year
[00:04:53.400]went through the 10th of September,
[00:04:55.690]so, the plants were pretty much finished up by then,
[00:04:58.130]then we harvest and
[00:05:00.050]kind of, do all the calculations, tabulations
[00:05:02.230]and then we presented the information here
[00:05:04.710]on the 16th of January, 2021.
[00:05:08.470]So, technology and services provided,
[00:05:10.720]we got several different imagery provided
[00:05:12.850]from satellite to aerial imagery, weather station data,
[00:05:16.130]there's a couple of weather stations at the field edge
[00:05:18.820]providing that information online.
[00:05:21.210]Participants get to select a soil monitor,
[00:05:24.360]soil moisture monitoring device,
[00:05:26.810]so, they have a choice of that.
[00:05:28.470]Also some plants sensing is done as well.
[00:05:31.360]In addition, on the right hand side,
[00:05:33.220]that we do a lot of soil and plant sampling
[00:05:35.620]during the season, at the end of the season,
[00:05:38.040]you see Dr. Julie Peterson
[00:05:39.340]scouting for insects during the season
[00:05:41.660]and we do some plot photos every couple of weeks,
[00:05:44.240]provide those to the participants
[00:05:46.040]and provided some drone footage this year as well
[00:05:48.730]and we'll continue to do that in the future.
[00:05:52.180]So, you can see our 2020 irrigation seasonal rainfall,
[00:05:56.530]so, starting there first part of June
[00:05:58.930]through middle of September,
[00:06:01.300]the total was there what?
[00:06:02.490]About five and a half inches, 5.62 inches of water
[00:06:06.330]received in rainfall.
[00:06:08.620]Quite a bit lower than our historical,
[00:06:10.380]the last three years, you know,
[00:06:11.460]we'd been about 15 to 21 inches
[00:06:13.560]of rainfall received during the season,
[00:06:15.990]so, quite a bit dryer, made that irrigation decision
[00:06:18.830]much more meaningful this year.
[00:06:22.580]Market conditions, you can see for the last couple of years,
[00:06:25.420]so, we're on kind of a wild ride,
[00:06:27.740]really pretty high right now,
[00:06:29.070]highest we've seen in quite some time,
[00:06:31.650]that really
[00:06:32.520]helped out those participants that waited until the end
[00:06:35.410]to market their grain,
[00:06:36.360]they have the typically the highest dollars per bushel
[00:06:40.140]in terms of marketing decisions.
[00:06:42.340]And the December futures prices here,
[00:06:44.150]I know we're talking about grain sorghum but
[00:06:46.360]the local basis or the local cash values
[00:06:48.800]are based off the December futures of corn
[00:06:51.960]and again, we were pretty high here
[00:06:53.950]towards the end of November
[00:06:55.500]when quite a bit of the grain was priced.
[00:06:58.450]And we also had a positive basis
[00:07:00.440]for grain sorghum this year.
[00:07:02.300]We see that often time to time, typically in the off season
[00:07:05.810]but actually we saw it during the growing season this year
[00:07:08.520]and some of our participants really cashed in on that.
[00:07:12.110]So, let's take a look at, first of all,
[00:07:14.080]our Taps Advocate Award.
[00:07:15.570]Every year we provide an award to a
[00:07:18.120]person, individual or business,
[00:07:20.890]that kind of goes above and beyond the call
[00:07:23.360]in terms of helping us promote our Taps program.
[00:07:26.750]This year we'd like to present it to
[00:07:28.520]the "Nebraska Farmer" and Tyler Harris.
[00:07:30.420]Tyler's the editor of the "Nebraska Farmer",
[00:07:32.740]has really done a great job
[00:07:34.020]in terms of helping us get the word out,
[00:07:36.420]Tyler would interview our award winners
[00:07:38.230]the last several years and be able to share their stories,
[00:07:41.440]their management strategies that led to their awards
[00:07:44.520]and that way others could learn from them as well.
[00:07:46.820]Tyler also competed as a Taps participant
[00:07:49.310]for a couple of years and wrote about that in his blog, so,
[00:07:52.420]taking an inside of the competition look as well,
[00:07:55.870]we're really grateful to have "Nebraska Farmer"
[00:07:57.760]and Tyler Harris for helping us get the word out
[00:07:59.990]on our UNL Taps program.
[00:08:02.660]So, let's focus here on the sorghum competition,
[00:08:05.080]we'll kind of go into the decisions made.
[00:08:07.530]We did have 12 teams participating,
[00:08:09.640]we had a controlled plot that gets no water and no nitrogen
[00:08:13.140]and then we had a UNL extension team
[00:08:15.350]plus 10 individuals that competed.
[00:08:18.690]You can see on the left-hand side here,
[00:08:20.440]on the outer part of the pivot,
[00:08:22.930]we did have three replicated blocks,
[00:08:24.900]so, each one of the plots was replicated three times
[00:08:27.760]in a different location in the field,
[00:08:29.510]those were randomly assigned.
[00:08:32.680]Crop insurance selection,
[00:08:34.400]controlled plot had no insurance selection,
[00:08:37.150]everybody else was $5 up to about $17 and 44 cents
[00:08:41.680]as a maximum.
[00:08:42.980]Most of them would select a
[00:08:44.740]revenue protection and enterprise units
[00:08:46.830]at the 65% level
[00:08:48.980]with the most common insurance package selected.
[00:08:52.650]Yeah, in terms of hybrid and seeding rate,
[00:08:54.530]we had seven hybrids selected.
[00:08:56.850]You see the different colored rectangles there
[00:08:59.620]would be different seed companies.
[00:09:01.400]So, our seed companies provide the seed,
[00:09:04.860]recommended seed and seeding rates
[00:09:06.720]and the participants can choose
[00:09:08.360]one of those hybrids or they can select their own.
[00:09:11.340]You see here, our seeding rates range from
[00:09:14.080]80,000 up to 110,000, so,
[00:09:16.320]about 30,000 seed per acre range there.
[00:09:20.050]Cost per acre, $12 and 20 cents up to about $20,
[00:09:24.150]so, not quite twice as much,
[00:09:26.500]but pretty significant difference in the amount of seed,
[00:09:31.390]how much the cost was
[00:09:32.630]to put the seed in the ground this year.
[00:09:34.760]The most popular hybrid was Channel 6B55,
[00:09:38.190]we had several teams select that hybrid.
[00:09:42.510]Here, you can see the nitrogen fertilizer that was applied,
[00:09:45.070]again, plot three is that controlled plot,
[00:09:47.060]got no water, no nitrogen,
[00:09:49.350]the minimum was 40 pounds for a preplan up to 140 pounds,
[00:09:53.180]fertigations ranged from 55 up to 120 pounds,
[00:09:56.620]so, pretty significant range.
[00:09:58.350]Overall, in terms of how much nitrogen was applied
[00:10:00.840]was 135 up to 220,
[00:10:03.520]so, not quite 100 pound range, but pretty close to that.
[00:10:08.940]Irrigation amounts range from 2.61 at the low up to 9.71,
[00:10:13.840]so, you know, about a seven inch difference
[00:10:16.100]in terms of how much irrigation water is applied.
[00:10:18.620]As we start looking at the yields,
[00:10:20.030]water was really, really important this year
[00:10:22.040]with the lack of rainfall,
[00:10:24.470]we just had to supplement
[00:10:25.650]quite a bit of irrigation water this year
[00:10:27.920]to get the yields to where they needed to be.
[00:10:33.582]And the average was about 7 inches.
[00:10:36.640]Sorghum cost, when we put all the costs together,
[00:10:39.150]so, this would be their nitrogen costs or
[00:10:41.820]seed costs or irrigation pumping costs,
[00:10:47.560]insecticide,
[00:10:49.330]tillage and planting, harvest costs,
[00:10:51.550]all of that's included in here,
[00:10:52.910]land ran returned to maintenance,
[00:10:56.330]returned to management
[00:10:58.330]is all included in this.
[00:11:00.010]The low, again, that controlled plot
[00:11:02.080]was $401 up to $619 per acre cost of production.
[00:11:09.080]In terms of marketing, we see quite a few participants
[00:11:12.520]selected cash contracts,
[00:11:14.200]42% of the grain was sold through cash contracts
[00:11:17.200]another 40% through basis
[00:11:19.840]and about 20% was forward contracted.
[00:11:24.800]In terms of the marketing,
[00:11:26.490]the high was farm 10, received $5 and 50 cents per bushel,
[00:11:30.420]probably sold most of it at November 30th
[00:11:33.270]when we had the high for the year,
[00:11:35.010]and the low was down at farm three at $3 and 75 cents
[00:11:38.810]with an average of about four and a half dollars per bushel.
[00:11:42.670]Now, let's take a look at the award results here.
[00:11:45.160]So, the yields, farm 12 had the highest yield of 176.5,
[00:11:50.310]a couple other teams, you know, had up to 160, 170 range,
[00:11:54.360]really did a good job.
[00:11:55.570]So, nine, eight and 12 were our top three
[00:11:58.330]in terms of yields,
[00:12:01.250]and those were
[00:12:02.320]from Chad Dane, Mark Rasmussen and Scott Jewett,
[00:12:06.840]and our winner this year was Mark Rasmussen.
[00:12:10.150]Mark planted Channel 6B55 at 110,000 seeds per acre,
[00:12:15.290]he selected the Sentek soil moisture probe
[00:12:17.620]to make his irrigation scheduling decisions,
[00:12:20.020]a total of 170 pounds of nitrogen and 9.63 inches of water,
[00:12:25.010]like I said, his yield was 176.5.
[00:12:30.340]In terms of efficiency,
[00:12:31.810]remember we talked about the high three
[00:12:33.490]and yields was nine, eight and 12,
[00:12:36.080]you can see here farm eight
[00:12:37.470]was the highest in terms of efficiency,
[00:12:39.280]that's the yellow bar, that's the calculation that we did.
[00:12:42.845]But how did they get there?
[00:12:44.170]So, they had a good yield and did it very efficiently,
[00:12:47.060]you know, the blue dots would be irrigation water,
[00:12:49.890]so, this individual applied what?
[00:12:51.560]About seven and a half inches of water
[00:12:53.690]and the green dots is nitrogen fertilizer applied
[00:12:56.590]would have been about 135 pounds of nitrogen
[00:12:59.930]to get that top yield
[00:13:01.270]or it'd be the top three in terms of yield.
[00:13:04.150]So, in terms of the top three,
[00:13:06.370]Scott Jewett, Mark Rasmussen and Todd downer,
[00:13:10.360]and our winner was Scott Jewett.
[00:13:13.400]Scott planted Channel 6B55 at 90,000 seeds per acre,
[00:13:17.810]utilized a CropX soil moisture sensor,
[00:13:20.520]put on 135 pounds of nitrogen and 7.4 inches of water,
[00:13:24.700]and his yield was 170.6,
[00:13:26.753]that was just a few bushels off of the high,
[00:13:29.320]so, congratulations to Scott
[00:13:31.160]for being our Highest Input Use Efficiency winner.
[00:13:34.760]And in terms of profitability,
[00:13:36.460]farm 10 was the high at $278 per acre.
[00:13:41.060]The minimum was $3 per acre, it's farm seven,
[00:13:44.940]the average is 122
[00:13:46.920]and high was a plot 10 at 278.
[00:13:50.630]Incidentally, our controlled plot
[00:13:53.110]that got no water, no nitrogen
[00:13:54.640]ranked third in terms of profitability,
[00:13:56.960]mostly because that grain was all sold
[00:13:58.920]again, on November 30th,
[00:14:00.480]had a decent yield and pretty low cost of production,
[00:14:03.030]so, kind of interesting that
[00:14:04.550]a plot that got no water and no nitrogen
[00:14:06.420]would finish this high in terms of
[00:14:08.240]the overall profitability.
[00:14:11.110]So, our top three were Klint Stewart,
[00:14:13.600]Paul Hoyt and Scott Jewett,
[00:14:15.900]and the winner this year was Paul Hoyt.
[00:14:19.200]Congratulations to Paul.
[00:14:20.800]Paul planted DK45-23 for his hybrid at 90,000 seeds per acre
[00:14:26.810]utilized the Trellis soil moisture sensor
[00:14:28.920]for making irrigation decisions,
[00:14:30.860]200 pounds of total nitrogen,
[00:14:32.890]8.63 inches of irrigation water,
[00:14:35.430]his yield was just under 160 bushels
[00:14:38.340]and as revenue received per bushel
[00:14:40.537]$5 and 45 cents per bushel, so, congratulations to Paul.
[00:14:46.460]This is kind of a summary,
[00:14:47.500]so, Mark Rasmussen, Scott Jewett and Paul Hoyt
[00:14:49.820]were the big winners this year,
[00:14:50.960]we congratulate all of our participants and all the winners
[00:14:54.150]for this year's Sprinklers Sorghum Competition.
[00:14:57.010]So, if you're interested
[00:14:58.210]or know somebody that might be interested
[00:14:59.910]in competing in 2021, please let us know,
[00:15:02.400]we can add you to our list of participants.
[00:15:05.650]Of course, spots are limited due to field size,
[00:15:08.000]so, if you're interested,
[00:15:08.870]make sure you let the Taps team know as soon as possible
[00:15:11.980]if you wanna participate.
[00:15:13.610]Also, if you're a business or organization
[00:15:15.680]that would like to be part of the Taps program,
[00:15:18.030]we'd be glad to visit with you
[00:15:19.180]about sponsorship opportunities
[00:15:21.380]that might align with your company's vision,
[00:15:23.580]so, please contact Krystle Rhoades,
[00:15:25.430]our Taps program manager at Krystle.rhoades@unl.edu.
[00:15:31.080]Check us out on Twitter
[00:15:32.720]and our webpage as well as our digital newsletter
[00:15:35.940]that we do put that out every month
[00:15:38.050]and it allows us to keep up with you with current details.
[00:15:41.400]Thanks for joining us today
[00:15:42.580]for the Taps Awards presentation.

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