hello everyone and welcome back
yeah as you can see we're back in the
corn patch
uh kind of a quick update on progress
uh at this point i
don't think we've got i know we've not
gotten over half of it
uh we may have picked a third of it and
we're at about 120 bushel
uh so
you know and it's starting to mature out
real good
but uh you can see some getting some
nice ears in here
uh and we're selling it faster than we
can pick it
which is a good thing uh which brings us
to the subject of today's video
how much money can you make growing
sweet corn i had a couple people ask
about this about that and we'll talk
about it
uh we're going to load the tractor and
go home it's rained on off on this day
we picked about
oh i left work at lunch today and we
picked about
uh 65-70 bushel today so i'm
i'm a little tired uh
but anyhow
how much money can you make on sweetcorn
well
it depends now the numbers i'm going to
give you
are estimates
and rounded off numbers
of the way that i do this keep that in
mind
what i do on it may you may do better
you may do worse
this is not a this is not to be used for
official purposes if you will
but anyhow anchor sweet corn
all right the way i grow my
sweet corn fertilized spray
land rent and packaging don't forget the
packaging
because usually when people calculate
out
farming they always want
to calculate out the best case scenario
never ever ever
budget or make plans
or borrow money or
anything farming based on the best case
scenario
ever don't do it
you can calculate the best case scenario
and you can calculate the worst case
scenario
and go somewhere in the middle is
usually where you'll wind up
but i like to use benchmarks
what do i have to do what do i have to
produce how much do i have to sell it
for
to make money not break even
uh that's a whole nother ball game but
uh
it's all sweet corn the way i do it and
all i said don't forget to figure in
your packaging if you put it in sack
sack 64 cents a piece if you're putting
it in the crate
crates two dollars a piece so you got
you gotta keep that in mind
uh i spent i have about a thousand
dollars an acre in the corn
even mine i'm not paying for labor to
pick it either
so that's something else so
i have sold sweet corn at eight dollars
a bushel
and i've sold it at 21 a bushel
but usually i use the number of twelve
dollars a bushel
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that is average that is wholesale retail
uh all that twelve dollars of bushel
i have yielded
almost 300 acres
300 bushel per acre
i used the number 150 bushel per acre
to do my math on it
twelve dollars a bushel 150 bushel an
acre
that's eighteen hundred dollars an acre
that's a profit of eight hundred dollars
an acre
uh 21
bushel 200 bushel an acre
you're 4 400 right 4 000 something
ah
ah we're strapping tracking down
let me uh let me tie this tractor down
i'll be right back
okay sorry about that we had to get
loaded
home unloaded phone rang
you know how it is back to ag economics
but anyhow keep in mind
i had a one acre of sweet corn
that produced 285 bushel that i sold on
average
20 bushel done really good
i had eight hundred dollars in that or a
thousand dollars in that
acre i have
had on the other flip side that
i bush hogged three acres down one time
it was just as good a corn
uh
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timing was off
could not give it away uh
well i could give it away i think
i think it was three dollars a bushel
but nobody would buy it that's much corn
everybody had all they needed so i had
three acres of
corn that i bush hogged i had a thousand
dollars an acre in that corn too
so uh sweet corn
like any farming is a gamble and
sweet corn can be
very lucrative if you hit it right
and it can be devastating if you miss it
uh it's very extreme so you can go
from losing a thousand dollars an acre
to clearing 4 000 acre and
i've done it all in between
so i've got 15 acres uh
i take a different approach i
i know what my total seed bill is i know
what my total fertilized bill is
i know what my total spray bill is gonna
be i know what my total package bill's
gonna be
so the way i look at it is
i look at it as a whole the price is
gonna go up and down
right now the prices are strong for
sweet corn uh
they will go down they how much they may
go up they may go down who knows
but uh way i look at how many acres into
that do i break even
and once i get to that break even point
from there on is profit and
hopefully at the end of the year when i
back it all out
it'll be around thousand dollars an acre
if it's thousand dollars an acre
i'm good so uh
i hope that answers your question and
you know a lot of that depends on
where you're farming how much you can
get for it how you going to sell it
if i'm sitting by the road selling it
for four dollars a dozen
i can do really good i'm not gonna grow
fifteen twenty acres of it
i'm gonna grow one to three one to five
acres
the time i'm sitting outside the road
way i'm growing i need to be picking
so uh i gotta i gotta wholesale a lot of
it
and by doing that you know you take a
less price but
once again you know you're you're going
for that average
you're going for that benchmark and the
benchmark for me to make money
is 150 bushel an acre
and 12 dollars a bushel now a lot of
times there's nothing i can do about the
price of it
so i try to make my money by getting
that yield up there
uh getting that yield up there and
hopefully if i'm at 200
bushel an acre which is probably closer
to what
my average is uh if i'm 200 bushel on
laker at 12
you know then i'm up there making about
14 1500 an acre so
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