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Crop Insurance for land owners?  How do you do that?

As farm leases are re-negotiated for 2013, one of the discussion points that might enter into the discussion is how a crop share or share rent land owner can participate in crop insurance.  A cash rent...

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Protect Your Stored Corn With More Care This Winter

Did you take all of your 2012 corn to the elevator or do you have corn in the bin?  If you are storing corn at home, it should be protected from the potential for growth of mycotoxins and their...

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Crop Insurance: Private Benefit, Yet Public Impact; And What May Happen.

Crop insurance may be part of the permanent US agricultural law that Congress will not delete in re-writing the Farm Bill, so plan for premium costs in your crop budget for next year.  However, some of...

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Cornbelt Update

Cornbelt Update is a weekly digest of marketing, economic, agronomic, and management information, emailed to subscribers.  This current edition is provided as a sample, and if you would like to become...

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Have you been changing any aspect of your nitrogen application?

Have you finished applying anhydrous ammonia or an alternative form of nitrogen this fall?  And by the way, how did you determine how much to apply?  It may have been based on your typical rate of...

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Cornbelt soils remain dry, as winter approaches.

The US Department of Agriculture is wrapping up its reporting period for crop progress and soil conditions.  While nearly all of the crops have been harvested, the big story that remains is the amount...

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When will low water levels on the Mississippi halt river traffic?

The drought of 2012 may have diminished Cornbelt yields, but now it is diminishing the capability of getting the minimal crop to market.  Low water levels in the Mississippi River watershed have...

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Taking the financial temperature of the heart of the Cornbelt

In the heart of the Cornbelt, land prices continue to increase, and farmers are not only paying cash for farmland, but also paying off non-real estate debt.  As the 2012 farming year comes to an end...

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Livestock Producers Face Tighter Supplies of DGS

Livestock operations with a nearby ethanol plant have had the opportunity for an alternative feed supply to compete with higher-priced corn and soybean meal in recent years.  While that seemed like a...

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Farmland sales may be frequent, but does much of it really get new ownership?

How many farmland sales do you attend if the land is selling in your neighborhood?  In recent months of high priced land, they have held as much entertainment value as anything.  You will see neighbors...

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What price will you use for your 2013 corn marketing plan?

What is your marketing plan for 2013 corn? Some of you may already have one either in mind or on paper.  Others quickly ask what the average price will be.  If your concern is not knowing the average...

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Unfriendly weather and lower premium rates point to more Cornbelt crop...

Many farmers are making long range plans to manage crop production risk in 2013 in the wake of some of the latest weather forecasts for less than favorable crop growing conditions.  With lower crop...

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No Farm Bill Yet, But It May Already Violate International Trade Rules

The 2008 Farm Bill expired at the end of September, and a replacement is caught up in the stalemate on the so-call “fiscal cliff” talks in Washington, which will dictate the extent of the safety net...

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Seed corn selection strategies for 2013 and beyond

Do you have all of your 2013 seed corn booked?  Are you guaranteed of getting what you want?  Will you have some flex acres that could use seed corn next spring, if the soy-corn ratio prefers corn?...

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Where is agriculture teetering on the “fiscal cliff?”

While the nation’s leaders continue their fiscal policy discussions and the citizenry teeters on the edge of the “fiscal cliff,” agriculture may have already fallen over the cliff.  Its fate will be...

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Are you ready for production quotas and parity prices in agriculture?

Most of agriculture, and particularly dairy and livestock producers, consider the Congress to be the Christmas “Grinch” for its failure to approve a successor to the expired 2008 Farm Bill.  It ceased...

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A basis contract may solve your grain marketing quandry.

Where are you in your marketing plan?  Did you sell out in August at the market highs?  Do you still have your entire old crop either in the bin or the elevator?  Did you sell your corn to shift the...

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Congress Decides a New Farm Bill Is Better Than Consumer Ire Over Milk

Congress began working over two years ago to replace the 2008 Farm Bill when it expired last September 30th.  Hearings in Washington and across the US were held to gather information to make the...

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What is and is not in the farm legislation approved by Congress on New Year’s...

There is time-honored political axiom that says there are two things that you never want to see being made.  One is sausage.  The other is legislation.  That was certainly the case as the Senate and...

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Can agriculture meet the challenge of feeding 9 billion people?

Your challenge, or maybe it is the challenge of whoever succeeds you on your farm, is to produce food in sufficient quantities to feed three billion additional people 40 years from now.  They will not...

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