Will low grain/soy prices cure low prices? Yes … eventually … but it is a process that can last longer than some can financially endure. I do not see any capitulation from bulls yet on a scale to set a major bottom. We look for record 2025 yields and production. This follows record ...
It’s summertime and the living is easy. The weather is tropical, and the sweat is flowing like lemonade into a glassful of frosty ice cubes. The corn is actively pollinating as of this writing, untold millions of plants making whoopie right out in the open where anyone can see them. This is ...
BOONE — The signs on county blacktop roads began sprouting up last spring touting “Flowers Galore.” There was no media blitz, no hoopla on social media, just an industrious young woman quietly working away to build a new family business. Follow the signs a short drive down a dusty ...
AMES — Not every aspiring farmer has immediate access to ground and the know-how to grow crops, but Practical Farmers of Iowa has a program that connects beginning farmers with experienced mentors who can help them flourish. Beginning farmers wanting to gain hands-on skills can apply for ...
Five years ago I stopped a long tradition of turning this space over to readers who disagreed with me. Most of those columns, offered twice a year, featured correspondents who verbally took me to the woodshed. I did it, as I explained in each of those “readers-write” columns, out of a ...
A year-long University of Nebraska study found that non-flex fuel vehicles are able to adapt to the higher oxygen content of E-30 and there was no effect on vehicle performance. The higher the ethanol percentage in blended fuel sold, the more demand for ethanol produced from corn is created, ...
As many Iowa fields dry up after recent heavy rains, farmers are turning their focus on prepping equipment for harvest. One important part of that task is to make sure to conduct equipment safety checks alongside routine maintenance. “Harvest is always very stressful, so anything they ...
OTHO — The Smeltzer Charitable Trust will host a field day on Aug. 19, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Smeltzer Learning Farm, rural Otho. The field day will focus on the idea of using carbon markets and green ammonia to improve the bottom line for landowners. The program will begin at 5 p.m. ...
It comes around every year … kind of like tax prep time, and is just as welcome. I’m talking about canning season. Indeed, I plant our garden with a mix of great satisfaction and angst. I don’t mind having a garden, or tending to it; but I truly despise planting it. I think farmers ...
SHELDON — AgState is making a significant investment in customer service and efficiency at its Sheldon location with the installation of a second scale for inbound grain. The new scale is being added to handle increased volume during harvest and to better serve local producers by reducing ...
