TAPS 2020 SDI Corn Presentation

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Learn more about the 2020 TAPS SDI Corn Competition 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.
[00:00:04.720]And here today to share with you,
[00:00:06.010]our UNL TAPS program, 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 awards
[00:00:15.900]on January 16th.
[00:00:17.480]Others on the leadership team with me,
[00:00:19.480]Dr. Darren 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 on the Panhandle.
[00:00:29.480]Robert Tigner is a farm management educator
[00:00:32.500]based in North Platte.
[00:00:33.580]And Jason Warren is an irrigation specialist down
[00:00:35.880]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 cover a pretty good
[00:00:54.610]chunk of the state of Nebraska, Southern half of Nebraska,
[00:00:57.810]up in the Northeast 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
[00:01:05.120]the Oklahoma state competitions.
[00:01:06.990]Oh, yeah 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
[00:01:42.760]to be able to 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 force the last several years.
[00:01:53.290]The Corn Board, Nebraska Grain Sorghum Board,
[00:01:57.190]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.
[00:02:07.910]In addition, we have a USDA NRCS CIG grant that we received,
[00:02:12.220]so support from them.
[00:02:13.700]As well as Ogallala water, The Nature Conservancy
[00:02:16.620]and the rain water basin.
[00:02:19.830]So the awards that we present,
[00:02:21.570]we give out a $2,000 cheque to the most profitable farm.
[00:02:25.417]Now this is calculated looking at their cost of production,
[00:02:28.620]how many dollars per bushel it cost them
[00:02:30.440]to produce the grain.
[00:02:31.740]In addition to how they marketed that grain,
[00:02:34.120]what price did they receive in the marketplace?
[00:02:37.180]We also give a $1,000 cheque
[00:02:39.560]to the highest input use efficiency farm.
[00:02:41.960]That takes a look at the water applied,
[00:02:44.120]the nitrogen applied.
[00:02:45.540]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 a 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.
[00:03:01.680]So if a farm spends a lot of money on water and nitrogen
[00:03:05.350]and seed, just to get that high yield,
[00:03:08.220]their profitability likely it's gonna be a little lower.
[00:03:10.450]So then we adjust the cheque accordingly.
[00:03:14.630]The overview, of course,
[00:03:15.870]this competition is held
[00:03:17.200]at the Western Rural Research Extension and Education Center
[00:03:20.330]in North Platte,
[00:03:21.630]focusing in on the SDI Corn Competition here.
[00:03:24.980]The plots, we have three replicated plots
[00:03:27.100]that amount to just less than an acre.
[00:03:29.570]So the yield off of those plots
[00:03:30.920]is basically ramped up to a 1000 acres.
[00:03:33.250]So, they'd have 250 to 300,000 bushels
[00:03:37.330]that they would need to market during the growing season.
[00:03:40.470]And a 1000 acres.
[00:03:41.720]but the equipment compliment represents 3000 acres
[00:03:44.720]which would be more of a typical size of a grain farm here
[00:03:48.380]in this part of the state.
[00:03:50.080]Management decisions, producers,
[00:03:51.860]or participants selected a crop insurance coverage package.
[00:03:55.027]They also selected a hybrid and seeding rate.
[00:03:57.970]A nitrogen management program,
[00:03:59.600]so they tell us how much nitrogen and when to apply it.
[00:04:03.120]Now that could be pre-plant, side dress
[00:04:06.080]or also several fertigation options,
[00:04:08.870]irrigation amounts and timing,
[00:04:11.980]when they wanted their water applied and how much to apply.
[00:04:14.760]And again, they told us how they would market their grain
[00:04:17.270]on that 1000 acre SDI corn farm.
[00:04:21.080]So you see a timeline of events here.
[00:04:23.030]We did receive some funding from
[00:04:24.570]USDA NRCS, Conservation Innovation Grant here,
[00:04:28.460]a little over a year ago.
[00:04:30.280]Also some funding from the Sorghum Checkoff Corn Board
[00:04:33.250]and Sorghum Board here in Nebraska.
[00:04:35.900]Typically our kickoff event
[00:04:37.570]is in late February, early March.
[00:04:39.727]And everybody comes in and we kind of go over the details
[00:04:43.620]of the competition rules and regulations,
[00:04:45.630]and how it's all gonna play out.
[00:04:47.710]Decisions start coming in March.
[00:04:49.230]They, again, select their crop insurance package.
[00:04:51.910]And then before planning,
[00:04:53.080]they got to tell us how much pre-plant nitrogen to put down,
[00:04:55.910]what hybrid and seeding rate to apply.
[00:04:58.140]And those decisions are due the 10th of April.
[00:05:01.470]And then we start planning
[00:05:02.670]towards the end of April, first part of May
[00:05:05.150]depending on when conditions warrant that.
[00:05:07.840]Irrigations, again, they can start irrigating at any time.
[00:05:11.900]We opened that up June 8th this year,
[00:05:13.560]We had some early seasons
[00:05:14.730]soil moisture and some precipitation
[00:05:17.910]but we started our irrigation events.
[00:05:20.250]The rest of the fertigations,
[00:05:21.660]those are all based on growth stages.
[00:05:23.500]So as we hit different targets on growth stages
[00:05:26.485]fertigation options are available.
[00:05:29.090]We do try to have a field day,
[00:05:30.900]a couple of them in the summer,
[00:05:32.220]but due to COVID, those all had to be virtual this year.
[00:05:35.630]So hopefully this next year
[00:05:36.740]we can get back to in-person events as well.
[00:05:39.370]Harvest was in, harvested the 29th of October
[00:05:43.880]for the SDI competition and the pivot corner competition.
[00:05:48.650]And then we basically spend a couple months tabulating,
[00:05:51.880]going through all the data and calculating the results.
[00:05:56.420]So technology and services
[00:05:57.920]provided a lot of satellite imagery, aerial imagery.
[00:06:01.700]You see some drone footage as well
[00:06:03.420]in the lower right-hand corner here.
[00:06:05.420]Oh, we did have several weather stations
[00:06:07.070]that provided up to the minute weather station data
[00:06:09.900]available on your smartphone or webpage.
[00:06:13.290]Each of the participants got to choose
[00:06:15.060]a soil moisture monitoring probe
[00:06:17.760]that was put out in the field, or a plant sensing probe
[00:06:20.760]that they could use for scheduling irrigations.
[00:06:23.350]In addition, on the right-hand side,
[00:06:24.840]we just do a lot of soil and plant sampling
[00:06:27.110]both before the season and during the season.
[00:06:29.520]Just calculating where things are at
[00:06:31.400]and that can help us kind of figure out
[00:06:33.310]why things played out the way they did.
[00:06:35.550]Dr. Julie Peterson does some scouting
[00:06:38.120]for western bean cutworm throughout the season.
[00:06:41.490]We did take plot photos every couple of weeks
[00:06:43.560]and post those to the participants web pages.
[00:06:46.350]So a lot of them live quite a ways from North Platte.
[00:06:49.350]So it's not really feasible for them
[00:06:51.050]to come every couple of weeks to look at the fields.
[00:06:53.820]And again, as I mentioned,
[00:06:54.830]we provided some drone footage this year
[00:06:57.000]and that will continue here in the future.
[00:07:00.490]As we look at the irrigation season rainfall amounts,
[00:07:03.580]cumulative irrigation, I'm sorry, cumulative rainfall
[00:07:07.370]from June 8th through the middle of September
[00:07:09.380]was as 5.62 inches.
[00:07:11.640]So way, way lower than our normal.
[00:07:13.620]The last several years we've been about 15 to 21 inches
[00:07:17.430]of rainfall during the growing season.
[00:07:19.170]So quite a bit less than that this year.
[00:07:21.430]That really made irrigation management a huge decision
[00:07:24.830]in terms of yield and efficiency this year.
[00:07:28.700]If you look at market conditions
[00:07:32.202]May of 2019 through current, a huge range in there.
[00:07:37.420]And we're at our high at this time of the year,
[00:07:40.300]which is not really normal.
[00:07:42.300]If you look at the typical prices generally
[00:07:44.660]from March to July is typically our higher prices.
[00:07:47.510]But again, I mentioned that really,
[00:07:49.020]our high this year was the end of November.
[00:07:51.320]So, those participants that chose to sell all their grain
[00:07:54.410]on the last day of the competition,
[00:07:56.550]made a good decision this year to do that.
[00:07:59.650]So let's first of all
[00:08:00.540]go to our outstanding TAPS advocate award.
[00:08:03.080]We do provide an award every year
[00:08:05.030]to an individual or a business
[00:08:07.030]that kind of goes above and beyond the call of duty,
[00:08:09.900]to help us promote our TAPS program.
[00:08:12.460]This year, we're really excited to present this award
[00:08:15.320]to the Nebraska Farmer and Tyler Harris.
[00:08:17.930]Tyler's the editor of Nebraska Farmer.
[00:08:20.470]Really did a great job
[00:08:21.610]in terms of interviewing participants, interviewing winners
[00:08:25.520]to share those management strategies,
[00:08:27.180]so others could learn
[00:08:28.120]from those management decisions as well.
[00:08:30.770]Tyler also competed as a participant for a couple of years
[00:08:34.120]and kind of took an inside look at the competition
[00:08:36.300]as a participant.
[00:08:37.530]And they wrote about that in his blog.
[00:08:39.620]So we really appreciate the Nebraska Farmer and Tyler Harris
[00:08:43.770]for giving us some great press
[00:08:45.250]and getting the word out for our TAPS competition.
[00:08:49.220]Now, I share a little bit of results.
[00:08:51.240]Dr. Julie Peterson, who's anthropologist
[00:08:53.560]at the West Central Research Extension and Education Center.
[00:08:57.750]Julie was doing a lot of scouting for western bean cutworm.
[00:09:01.410]So she was looking at the SDI
[00:09:02.867]and the sprinkler corn competitions,
[00:09:04.820]every three or four days,
[00:09:06.610]from the 6th through the 24th of July.
[00:09:08.850]That's when the peak moth flight was.
[00:09:11.430]The sprinkler corn competition had a 3% infestation
[00:09:14.460]which was below an economic threshold.
[00:09:17.050]The SDI corn had a 7% infestation,
[00:09:19.970]was in that category of, maybe treat,
[00:09:22.650]but it was not sprayed.
[00:09:24.110]Typically the economic thresholds in that 5 to 8% level.
[00:09:28.080]There were a variety of Bt trait packages planted
[00:09:30.790]on the SDI competition that she wanted to focus in on.
[00:09:35.990]So the Bt traits for western bean cutworms,
[00:09:40.070]not all caterpillar traits will affect western bean cutworm.
[00:09:44.420]So the Cry1F which is the Herculex, SmartStax, or AcreMax.
[00:09:48.780]88% of Nebraska crop consultants reported
[00:09:51.610]that this protein in corn is providing less control.
[00:09:54.973]That was a study done through 2014, through 2016.
[00:09:59.750]And it confirmed resistance to Cry1F in Nebraska,
[00:10:03.570]through the 2017 and 18 growing season.
[00:10:07.200]So as a result of that, western bean cutworm
[00:10:09.800]was removed from the label of all
[00:10:11.954]Cry1f products since 2019.
[00:10:15.470]So the Vip3A or the Viptera, Leptra or Treceptra.
[00:10:19.720]These traits provide very good control
[00:10:21.900]but resistance is always on the horizon
[00:10:24.510]so, be aware of that and be on the lookout for that.
[00:10:28.610]So some of the researcher Julie's team did
[00:10:31.610]was the assessment of ear feeding damage
[00:10:34.770]on the SDI competition.
[00:10:36.340]They basically looked at 10 ears per plot
[00:10:38.660]on the 17th of August.
[00:10:40.730]Caterpillars were identified
[00:10:42.700]in the amount of damage per ear was measured.
[00:10:46.200]Here's a chart with the results are the feeding damage.
[00:10:49.050]You can see on the right hand side here,
[00:10:51.390]was either the Cry1F or no western bean cutworm proteins.
[00:10:55.980]Yield loss of one to three bushels per acre
[00:10:58.580]was projected by the research,
[00:11:01.000]and with the Vip3A protein
[00:11:03.330]less than a tenth of a bushel per acre loss.
[00:11:05.870]So pretty good control there with the Vip3A proteins.
[00:11:12.410]Looking back on that economic threshold,
[00:11:15.054]we're really in that maybe spray zone based on scouting.
[00:11:19.040]Usually a 7% infestation,
[00:11:21.040]would have resulted in higher
[00:11:22.350]than one to three bushel per acre loss.
[00:11:25.220]But in this case, it would likely not have been
[00:11:27.360]an economic benefit to have been sprayed,
[00:11:30.560]because the cost of spray was greater
[00:11:32.270]than the value of the yield lost.
[00:11:34.940]So many things can affect the relationship
[00:11:36.790]between the infestation percentage
[00:11:38.990]and final entry to ears and yield loss.
[00:11:41.910]And that's western bean cutworm survival,
[00:11:44.710]depending on natural enemies, environmental conditions
[00:11:46.897]and crop development.
[00:11:48.690]And crop type as well,
[00:11:50.030]whether it's field corn or popcorn,
[00:11:51.880]white edible corn or seed corn.
[00:11:55.640]Now let's get and dig a little deeper into the decisions
[00:11:58.800]that were made during the SDI Corn Competition.
[00:12:02.050]There were 16 teams that competed,
[00:12:04.030]including the UNL control plot and a UNL science team,
[00:12:08.960]where they made decisions based on technology,
[00:12:11.870]during the growing season for water and nitrogen management.
[00:12:15.260]And then several other participants had teams.
[00:12:18.800]So we have 41 total competing individuals.
[00:12:22.800]You can see here, we got replicated plots.
[00:12:25.000]So each team had three replications
[00:12:29.380]that were randomized in the three blocks
[00:12:31.850]on the SDI Corn Competition.
[00:12:35.110]Crop insurance, the minimum was $2.44 cents per acre.
[00:12:39.550]The maximum just over at $12, an acre
[00:12:41.670]with an average of about $6 per acre.
[00:12:44.500]The most common crop insurance package selected
[00:12:47.050]was Revenue Protection enterprise units at the 75% level.
[00:12:53.080]In terms of hybrid selection and seeding rate,
[00:12:55.010]we have 13 different hybrids selected.
[00:12:57.480]The color of the bars here or the rectangles
[00:13:00.050]represents the seed company.
[00:13:02.060]So some of the companies have multiple hybrids selected.
[00:13:05.710]The populations range from 32,000 up to 35,000.
[00:13:09.780]Well, you can see the black dots
[00:13:11.140]represents the cost per bag for that particular hybrid,
[00:13:14.710]and then the cost per acre including price of the seed
[00:13:17.810]and seeding rate range from 87 up to $124 per acre.
[00:13:24.690]Nitrogen fertilizer.
[00:13:25.720]You see plot 11 there,
[00:13:26.950]is that control plot that got no water, no nitrogen.
[00:13:31.140]In terms of pre-plant nitrogen
[00:13:32.970]zero to a 120 by 120 pounds per acre.
[00:13:36.680]Applied side-dress zero to 140
[00:13:39.687]and fertigation zero and 120.
[00:13:42.990]So if you take out the control plot,
[00:13:44.690]total nitrogen applied
[00:13:46.280]range from 75 up to 310 pounds per acre.
[00:13:52.730]Irrigation water applied
[00:13:53.980]range from just under three inches of water at 2.95
[00:13:57.580]and the maximum was 14.75 inches applied
[00:14:01.470]during the growing season.
[00:14:03.470]So about a 12, 12% or 12 inch range there from high to low.
[00:14:10.340]So the average is about seven and a half inches
[00:14:14.720]In terms of cost,
[00:14:16.430]plot 11, again, was our control plot
[00:14:18.330]that got no water, no nitrogen.
[00:14:20.400]Cost was $6.40, I'm sorry, cost was $649
[00:14:25.508]and the high was $977 per acre.
[00:14:29.570]This would include seed cost, nitrogen cost,
[00:14:32.640]irrigation cost, any herbicides, insecticides, fungicides,
[00:14:36.760]tillage, planting and harvest,
[00:14:39.550]and also rent or return to management.
[00:14:44.903]In terms of marketing, 63% of the grain was forwarded
[00:14:48.270]or priced through cash contracts,
[00:14:50.790]another 20% through forward contracts.
[00:14:53.670]13% basis contracts and a little bit in hedge to arrive.
[00:14:59.530]In terms of marketing, the high was $5.5 cents per bushel
[00:15:03.591](indistinct) was $2.54 cents.
[00:15:05.710]Really depended on when they priced those bushels
[00:15:09.630]because the price did vary quite a bit
[00:15:11.410]during the growing season.
[00:15:14.740]So in terms of results, let's take a closer look here.
[00:15:17.470]The yield, the high yield was farm 16 at 285.3.
[00:15:22.950]Minimum was 144, again, that control plot
[00:15:25.720]that got no water, no nitrogen.
[00:15:28.180]We got farms 10, 7 and 16 were the top three.
[00:15:33.200]Those were Dizmang Ag, Langemeier Brothers
[00:15:36.480]and the Tri-Basin Water Watchers.
[00:15:39.240]And the winner was Lorn Dizmang of Dizmang Ag.
[00:15:42.670]Lorn planted Pioneer P1082AM,
[00:15:45.450]at a seeding rate of 32,000 seeds per acre.
[00:15:49.420]Lorn utilize the CropX soil moisture sensor
[00:15:52.210]for irrigation scheduling decisions.
[00:15:54.380]Total nitrogen applied, 280 pounds,
[00:15:57.320]irrigation water 14.75 inches.
[00:15:59.750]And again, 285.3 bushels per acre.
[00:16:03.060]Congratulations Lorn.
[00:16:05.700]In terms of efficiency,
[00:16:07.740]the efficiency calculations that's really unit less
[00:16:10.150]but the farm 13, have the higher efficiency
[00:16:13.590]that was actually the UNL science team.
[00:16:16.370]And in terms of how did they get to that point?
[00:16:19.630]So the blue dots would be the irrigation water applied.
[00:16:24.840]So that team applied just under eight inches of water.
[00:16:28.630]Nitrogen applied was actually about 75 pounds for farm 13.
[00:16:38.890]And as we mentioned, UNL and the Langemeier Brothers
[00:16:41.950]and Tri-Basin Water Watchers were top three.
[00:16:44.530]And the award, the top efficiency was UNL,
[00:16:47.930]but the award goes to the Tri-Basin Water Watchers.
[00:16:50.870]Members were Pat Nott, Chris Ecklun, Reed Phillips,
[00:16:55.210]Rick Reinsch and Curtis Scheele.
[00:16:57.820]This team planted Dekalb DKC70-27
[00:17:02.200]at a seeding rate of 34,000 seeds per acre,
[00:17:05.350]utilizing the AquaSpy soil moisture sensor
[00:17:07.900]for irrigation scheduling decisions.
[00:17:09.990]Total nitrogen applied was 160 pounds
[00:17:12.550]in nine and a half inches of water.
[00:17:14.620]And a yield of 273.8 bushels per acre.
[00:17:18.230]Congratulations to the Tri-Basin Water Watchers.
[00:17:22.590]Profitability.
[00:17:23.900]So a minimum of minus 192 or a loss, $192 per acre,
[00:17:29.610]maximum was 465.
[00:17:32.410]The SDI competition and the winning team
[00:17:35.300]made most of their money in the futures market,
[00:17:37.490]buying and selling future contracts.
[00:17:39.340]So buy low and sell high,
[00:17:41.410]and that's where they made most of their money
[00:17:43.740]to win the competition at 465,
[00:17:46.360]almost $300 more than the second place team.
[00:17:50.830]Top three, in terms of profitability
[00:17:52.710]were Dizmang Ag, NORSTAR Precision Ag Solutions
[00:17:56.460]and the Rattlesnake boys.
[00:17:58.090]And the winner was the Rattlesnake boys.
[00:18:01.010]Kevin and Amy Harsch, Jay Johnson and Jeremy Gewecke.
[00:18:06.070]They planted Pioneer P1082AM,
[00:18:09.450]at a seeding rate of 33,000 seeds per acre,
[00:18:12.470]utilizing the Phytech plant sensor
[00:18:14.580]for the irrigation schedule made decisions.
[00:18:16.790]They applied 120 pounds of nitrogen,
[00:18:19.100]just over eight inches of irrigation water.
[00:18:21.450]Their yield at 265.7
[00:18:23.900]and an average revenue of $5.5 cents per bushel.
[00:18:27.530]Congratulations to the Rattlesnake boys.
[00:18:31.280]They're just kind of a summary
[00:18:32.520]of our SDI Competition award winners.
[00:18:35.350]Congratulate all of our participants
[00:18:37.150]as well as our competition award winners this year.
[00:18:41.580]So if you're interested
[00:18:42.780]or know somebody that might be interested
[00:18:44.460]in competing in 2021, please let us know.
[00:18:46.970]We can add you to our list of participants.
[00:18:50.230]Of course, spots are limited due to field size.
[00:18:52.560]So if you're interested
[00:18:53.440]make sure you let the TAPS team know as soon as possible,
[00:18:56.550]if you wanna participate.
[00:18:58.180]Also, if you're a business or organization
[00:19:00.240]that would like to be part of the TAPS program,
[00:19:02.450]we'd be glad to visit with you
[00:19:03.750]about sponsorship opportunities,
[00:19:05.950]that might align with your company's vision.
[00:19:08.140]So please contact Krystle Rhoades,
[00:19:10.010]our TAPS program manager at krystle.rhoades@unl.edu.
[00:19:15.640]Check us out on Twitter and our webpage
[00:19:18.240]as well as our digital newsletter.
[00:19:20.520]That we do put that out every month
[00:19:22.610]and allows us to keep up with you with current details.
[00:19:25.960]Thanks for joining us today
[00:19:27.150]for the TAPS awards presentation.

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