10/27/2026
When the world gives you a 💩sandwich, you say, "Nahhh.. not today!"
2026 corn seed was purchased December 2025 following normal crop rotation practices.
Then the President, who has back tracked on every promise he campaigned on starts bombing key supply chain countries. And the price of fertilizer among everything else has sky 🚀 rocketed.
Instead of planting corn, the highest input and largest intaker of fertilizer. You decide to do a 360° pivot. All fields that were to be corn (75% of toal acres) became soybeans. I.e. much lower input costs, to hopefully save me some money and make a profit, when you have $4 corn. Except what do you do with the field that I will NOT drag a bean head over because of rocks, stumps and anything but flat.... hmm let's try sunflowers 🌻
Total new venture and ZERO experience.
Its been a stressful learning curve to say the least.
Now have an understanding of how to plant with modifications to the corn planter. When to plant so maturity coincides with fall pictures. And the grain head will thrown more flowers on the ground than it'll send to the combine to harvest.
Had to call in reinforcements with a specialized sunflower head to harvest. Thanks for the help Joshua Ernst much appreciated 👏🏻
