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weighing whether to harvest the drought-stressed corn as silage. Rather than looking purely at profitability, producers are simply hoping to recover out-of|M>cket expenses to date.
According to figun*s on selling standing corn supplied to Thornhill, the crop has a “floor" fertility value of about $58 per acre or $<>.50 per ton. The bottom price assumes a nine ton silage crop with a 20-25 percent dry matter value typical of green standing corn with little or no ear development. This amount includes the value of nutrients and organic matter if the crop was returned to the soil.
At Northern Virginia prices it costs $150-175 per acre to produce corn. That amount includes interest, but not labor. If the drought (Continued on Rage 2)
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