@JLinvilleFert Natural gas is at the low water mark while urea is at the upper echelon. What am I missing?
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Hbherb
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Right now, NOLA urea is about $150 cheaper than it should be vs global economics and phosphate is being exported at a rapid pace due to our discount vs the world.
Fertilizer is not cheap, but manufacturers are not gouging right now...
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What do they call it when usda says we have lots of bushels but the corn market keeps going up?
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@TySmith_AgNStuf A "family" business isn't a farm ruthlessly controlled by a 90 year old dad with sons reaching retirement age. Thats just a dictatorship with indifference towards succession.
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Farmers Are Aging. Their Kids Don’t Want to Be in the Family Business. wsj.com/business/famil…
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@DoubleDauwn @sovernTranch I love it when the "organic" people do this. Conventional farming bad, but when there's cheap feed or manure available to their operation, they don't blink an eye
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@sovernTranch And you've gone to great lengths to verify that all of this food meets your rigorous personal standards, right? No GMOs, pesticides, insecticides, deceptively labelled organics? Only a real jizz rag would cut those corners, right?
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How I feed my pigs and chickens without buying bag to feed or any kind of grain
I understand this is at a scale. A lot of people can’t do, but it does not have to be at the scale.
The places I get these pallets would be more than happy to give you a few boxes.
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@BeetfarmerDave Joke is on them! Beets were so poor sam still isnt getting a dime
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It means, those of you proud of getting your 7¢ soybean interest free savings account cash dividend get to pay 10¢ to Uncle Sam for it
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The big box co-op is handing out more tax liability on dividends then actual cash dividend this year
What a time to be alive
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@GrainStats @vintagemapstore They are not self sufficient. They have no twinkie factory and that is the only food group that will survive a nuclear blast.
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@DarrenFischer 15% ethanol blended with 68 octane gas. The problem is the junk they blend in.
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show me one instance that a vehicle was damaged due to the use of e15/88 octane fuel. you can't.
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High CSR flat as a tabletop topsoil 200’ deep black dirt
In CRP
won’t grow 80 bushel corn with all the help in the world
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Corn: Net sales of 4,010,600 MT for 2025/2026--a marketing-year high--were up noticeably from the previous week and from the prior 4-week average
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Should you give up your highest rent acres? In this example giving up 200 high rent acres actually increases your cost per acre. Obviously it’s complicated!
Grant Wiese@gwiesefarms
If rental rates are bleeding you out, negotiate lower or get out of the contract. Spreading costs over more acres or never getting those acres back won’t matter if you aren’t in business. There will be more opportunities down the road if you take care of business today.
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Stocks to Use vs Corn Prices 🌽
🟡 Yellow = stocks to use %
🟢 Green = corn’s highest price of the year
The USDA just raised our stocks to use from 12.45% to 13.61%
Bottom line on the chart = 10% stocks to use and $5.00 corn
Top line on the chart = 12.5% stocks to use
Below 10% typically results in prices running beyond $5.00
Above 12.5% typically results in prices topping out below $5.00
Prices usually don’t cross much above that bottom $5.00 line unless the stocks to use falls below it
With the current 13.61% we are sitting about on par with a few other bear market type of years as of today.
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Amazing we continue to find huge acreage increases.
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@SchwabMatt New management had been turning it around but the current headwinds are caused by increasing grower input prices, higher costs for repairs and plummeting sugar prices.
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Here is the current state of Michigan’s sugar co-op/industry
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If you were buying someone a 1/2" ratchet as a gift, which one would you buy?
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Marriage advice for young farmers
When you start accepting applications from ladies to be your farm wife, use scenarios not yes/no ?'s. Examples:
Which would you choose and why:
1. Build your dream house or buy an 80 ac farm?
2. Upgrade the kitchen or the combine?
3. Buy more cows or new living room furniture?
4. Go on vacation or put heat in the shop?
5. Buy a new SUV or tires for the tractor?
Don't let them skip out on answering the why part. That is where you get good information. Good luck out there and keep your head on a swivel.
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is a draper head really worth the extra $ when you do 500-700 acres of soybeans a year?
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@SiekerSales @swksfarmer So..... I shouldn't be spreading lime on 7.5 ph soils? Sure seems to grow nice crops when I do.
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Though it was Hydrogen % @swksfarmer
Pioneer Troy@deutmeyer_troy
Soil pH is THE MOST IMPORTANT column on your soil test report. Soil pH determines nutrient availability and strongly influences soil biology/health. If soil pH is not correct a large % of fertility in the soil or applied will not be available. If soil pH is below 6.3 you need to address it!!! Then use the Buffer pH column to determine application rates. I have looked at thousands of acres of soil tests this fall that have soil pH levels in the 5's..... Get these acres treated this fall or next spring before the 2026 crop. Contact your local Pioneer Sales Representative and review your soil test results!!!
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@JLinvilleFert That is a good question. What i do know is these yield predictions are done way too early under the guise of some super amazing secret formula and it reduced potential market volatility.
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@Hbherb2 How much physical or paper fertilizer length do you think my department currently holds?
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President Trump, when your administration considers subsidy payments to farmers, please bear in mind the price grains were at harvest rather than today.
A lot of grain got sold at lower prices across the scale...
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@gavin_spoor Now you just need to buy a couple from "fire" sales. Neighbor calls it the after hours parts store
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Nicest thing about a fleet of tired iron - When one goes down you limp it to the sidelines, call the shop, and keep on trucking.
Tire and rim (stole a rim off machine #4 setting at the house) were replaced on 1688 by late afternoon, perfect timing since the headlights on the 1680 decided to not work. Swap the cornhead back for the 2nd time in a day and got back at it.
It might be less efficient than one class 9, but the show doesn’t stop.
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