Crop Damages For 1993 and 1994

All scale tickets are available that were used in the following tests

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Blue Corn

1993

Fields U-1 produced 87.3 bushels per acre

Fields U-2 and U-3 produced 17.06 bushels per acre

A difference of 70.24 bushels per acre.

70.24 bushels per acre X 245.9 acres = 17,272.01 bushels lost due to no weed control.

17,272.01 bushels X $14.00 per bushel = $241,808.14 Loss

This Blue Corn was "Contracted" to Pepe's Foods of Toronto, Ontario, Canada for delivery in the fall of 93 through the year of 1994

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Soybeans

1993

61.71 bushels average yield per acre on the two tests

43.72 bushels per acre average yield on 170 acres

A loss of 17.99 bushels per acre

17.99 bushels per acre X 170 acres = 3058.30 bushels loss

3058.30 bushels X $7 per bushel (contract price for 94) = $21,408.10 Loss

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Blue Corn

1994

Tickets marked field U-1, A10 & A11 are from the clean fields.

These tickets total 6015 bushels harvested from 85 acres for a yield of 70.76 bushels per acre from the clean fields.

The corn harvested from fields U-2 and U-3 (total acres 245.9) was 7810.77 bushels for a yield of 31.76 bushels per acre.

70.76 bushels per acre minus 31.76 bushels per acre from the weedy fields equals a 39 bushels per acre loss in yield per acre.

39 bushels per acre X 245.9 acres of weedy of weedy fields equal a loss of 9590.10 bushels.

Our price for 1994 blue corn was 25 cents per pound or $14.00 per bushel.

$14.00 per bushel X 9590.10 bushels of loss equals $134,261.40.Loss

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