Selling Corn or Soybeans Off the Combine?
With prices likely near a harvest low, farmers are pondering when and how to price their newly harvested grain. Conversations hinge around selling off the combine, using on-farm storage, weighing commercial storage costs, and the implications of much higher interest rate costs.
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Everyone at The Table: How Even Small-Scale Farmers can Benefit from Precision Ag Tech
The assumption remains that leveraging technology is more financially feasible on large-scale farms. This assumption does bear some validity, but as technologies increasingly become more user-friendly and readily available, smaller-scale operations — where labor, money, and resources are limited — can leverage these tools as well.
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Illinois Farm Families To Be Featured on Casey's Pizza Boxes
During the month of October each box of Casey’s pizza in Illinois will come with a flyer featuring 10 family farms from across the state.
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Fertilizer Prices Moving in Two Different Directions
Retail fertilizer prices tracked by DTN for the fourth week of September 2023 are showing a more pronounced split as some prices rise and others fall.
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Weaned Calf Risk Protection Introduced as a New Insurance Option for Cow-Calf Producers
Livestock producers in four states will be able to insure revenue from their spring calving operations in the 2024 crop year.
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