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To: Eagle50AE

$784.00 per bushel......

$210.00 to plant an acre at 15# per acre.

With a US average yield of 153.8 bushels per acre, that is $1.36 per bushel for seed costs. OUCH!!!

6,613 posted on 04/16/2009 7:30:26 PM PDT by DelaWhere ("Without power over our own food, any notion of democracy is empty." - Frances Moore Lappe)

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To: DelaWhere

>> With a US average yield of 153.8 bushels per acre, that is $1.36 per bushel for seed costs. OUCH!!! <<

struck me as insane high too..

but the mayo that went from 1.69 to 3.89 knocked me flat..

6,637 posted on 04/17/2009 5:31:22 AM PDT by Eagle50AE (Pray for our Armed Forces.)

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