6-2 IAN Wet Wheat 3

 The chess game known as farming between weather, yield, no yield and crop insurance.

 Robert Blair can’t get into plant any of his crops and has decided the year is lost. Now he has other considerations.The other thing that I am running up against is CSP, meeting government program requirements. What are you going to do on the empty ground? Leave it fallow, you might have to plant a cover crop to meet program requirements for NRCS. That is a phone call I have to make today to find out exactly what I can and cannot do. It is up in the air with regards to what I have to take. If I have to plant a cover crop then I am reducing my income from the insurance because of that cost having to go up. When can I get out there to plant a cover crop? And if I do plant a cover crop, it will suck the moisture out and any benefit I would have this year for winter wheat and cleaning up weeds is now lost. Breaking up disease cycles, breaking up weeds, potentially resistant weeds, and weeds that come in flushes like Italian rye grass. So there is an opportunity here and there is a fine line between being a steward and taking care of the weed issues along with reducing erosion. We are kind of in that catch 22.