Stocker Steve
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You can grow a modest amount of corn for less than the I state per bushel average. Use your cow manure for most of the fertilizer input and pick up some discounted RR seed. Custom planting is pretty common.Corn requires iron and oil between the sun and the ground and most of the time is about as economical to buy as grow unless you
are large enough to take advantage in the volume of scale. Not sure how dry it is there but I do know as you get further west
and south it gets very dry. West of there it is really tough. (I like the hay shed and poly wire!)
Modern corn genetics have a huge amount of money invested in them. They still need water, but some western growers were quoted on CT as needing two rains to make a crop.
I don't like row crop, but there is a place for it on a low-cost drought resistant cattle operation.