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A Big Discovery,
Confection Sunflower Yields Go Higher With Exactrix TAPPS.
In the dirt
the
Yields average 171 bushels per
acre on 1,000 acres, 21 lbs/bu.
A good crop - 10% cleanout - 156 bu/a average, 3,276 lbs/a,
Oct.
28, 2012
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Poverty Flats, Hugoton, KS,
07/13/12
Joel McClure and his children -
07/13/12
Discovery: TAPPKTS,
Variable Rate with three product injection is helping drive
Sunflower yields higher with lower nutrient cost, in fact about half
the nutrient costs of other methods using TAPPKTS.
In Kansas (2007) there
are 32 growers that raised Confection sunflowers on 5,776 acres. The
average Yield dryland and irrigated summed was 1,372 pounds.
Irrigated was not released in detail, but it is assumed to be about
1.5 times the dryland and irrigated summed yield or 2,058
pounds.
A total of 198 million
pounds of oil-type sunflowers were produced by 613 producers on
139,856 dryland and irrigated acres in Kansas.
A total of 131 producers
on 23,000 acres produce oil type sunflowers.
The Confection Sunflowers
are a smaller market with 76 Kansas producers providing 22.6 million
pounds on 16,522 acres. The Kansas production of 32 producers was
irrigated on 5,776 acres.
Red River Commodities is a market maker based out of
Colby, KS. The company also promotes into Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado
and Nebraska from the Colby location. David
Sunflower Seeds is a typical market promoter of
Confection sunflowers raised in this area.
The highest of sunflower
target yields found on various education web sites is 2,500 pounds
per acre.
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Harvest Time -
09/20/12
Harvest Time -
09/20/12
After a quick literature
review, it is assumed that a good crop is between 2,058
pounds to 2,500 pounds of Confection sunflowers per
acre. The oil seed type of Sunflowers will yield higher, but the
price is lower.
Joel McClure at Hugoton,
KS is raising irrigated Confection sunflowers in 2012 and he has
produced an outstanding crop with Exactrix TAPPS and TAPPKTS
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Joel's McClure
07/13/12
Harvest Time -
09/20/12
The Confection sunflowers
weigh about 21 pounds per bushel...some parts of the field are
topping 200 bushels per acre. Confection Sunflowers are priced at 38
cents per pound. Joel is storing the Sunflower seeds in large Ag
Bags at the field margin access. The Confection sunflowers will be
shipped immediately after harvest.
The 2012 drought and high
heat produced an ideal environment for the crop....and it appears
that corn does not compete with Sunflowers on net dollars on his
soil types when it is hot.
Another advantage of
Sunflowers is that they can be planted later than corn. They are
sometimes double cropped behind winter wheat.
Joel has about 1,000
acres of irrigated Confection sunflowers, so he is producing about
20% of the crop in Kansas of Confection sunflowers.
Exactrix TAPPS was
combined in liquid streaming flows to form the crystals of TAPPS.
The Potassium or KTS, 0-0-25K-17S was injected as third product into
the flow of the APP, 10-34-0, ATS, 12-0-0-26S. No Hydra Hume was
used to produce these exceptional yields.
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Crystaline TAPPS and
TAPPKTS For more information about TAPPS Formulators
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TAPPS formulation was
applied in VRT technology with TAPPS and TAPPKTS, applied on 20 inch
bands in strip till. The DMI tool bar was set up with Weigh Master
Technology with wireless reporting using the 2KM. The 2KM with the
F meter was able to report bulk density. The system can be reviewed
at
www.exactrix.com/EOYT.htm
The Yields on one pivot
were topping 4,200 pounds on the yield monitor
October
20th. This was the highest point with
average pivot yields between 3,000 pounds to
3,500 pounds in the dirt.
Joel has ask for a bigger
combine, so a new Case 9230 with a wider sieve is on the way from
the local Case dealer.
The combine has the
Sheyenne tooling sunflower header, and ground speeds are between 1.5
to 2 mph with the 7000 series Case Combine.
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North Dakota
SUNMASTER HEADER
Harvest Time -
09/20/12
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Joel McClure Exactrix TAPPS Toolbar
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Technical advancements in 2KM series. The Gravity of the
situation with telemetric reports.
04/10/20/12
Mass Flow with the
2KM is proving economically successful with reporting the Specific
Gravity of the APP/ATS.
Producers can
challenge the scale....and can confirm daily application of "Tons
Moved" directly to the fertilizer dealer.
Joe McClure is the
first Exactrix owner to double check the APP/ATS blend....and
confirm the third product into the flow.
Typically Joel's
blend of APP/ATS weighs about 11.57 pounds per gallon and comes from
the Elkhart Coop at Hugoton, Kansas....
Joel injects
Ammoniated Zinc/Chelated Zinc into the flow of the APP/ATS just
before the pump. He also injects KTS in certain parts of the field.
Running three
liquid pumps (diaphragm and Peristallic) he can confirm exact pump
timing and application rates are on the mark with uniformity.
Normally about 2 to 3 seconds of pump engagement results in a
readout change in Bulk Density.
For more information about Joel's fertilizer program
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