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This Week in Ag #78

Imagine your boss walks into your office, says your productivity is tops in the company, but he’s reducing your salary by 25%. That’s what it’s like being a farmer in 2024. We’re expecting to see the largest year-over-year drop in farm income in history, on the heels of a 19% decline in

By |2024-08-13T22:11:45-07:00August 13th, 2024|Ag News, Blog Post, Plant & Soil|Comments Off on This Week in Ag #78

This Week in Ag #77

Farmers waiting on a summer market rally must feel like teenagers waiting by the phone to be asked to the dance. Only their prospects are much dimmer. Capitalizing on summer rallies is how many farmers base their marketing plans. When you chart commodity prices throughout this century, highs typically spike

By |2024-08-06T20:00:41-07:00August 6th, 2024|Ag News, Blog Post, Plant & Soil|Comments Off on This Week in Ag #77

This Week in Ag #76

Corn is made in July, soybeans are made in August.” That’s long been the belief of many farmers in the Midwest and much of the South. This is based on the reproductive stages of the various crops. For corn, pollination (tassel time), which usually takes place in early July, is

By |2024-07-30T22:58:09-07:00July 30th, 2024|Ag News, Blog Post, Plant & Soil|Comments Off on This Week in Ag #76

This Week in Ag #75

It’s National Corn Month! Okay, I know what you’re thinking. Isn’t that every month for me? True. But hey, it’s only fair that we reserve an entire month to recognize USA’s most widely grown crop. Over 90 million acres – about the size of Montana – of corn is grown annually across the fruited plain.

By |2024-07-23T20:07:11-07:00July 23rd, 2024|Ag News, Blog Post, Plant & Soil|Comments Off on This Week in Ag #75

This Week in Ag #74

Look up in the sky: it’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s… a drone? This weekend I flyover fed my corn using a Rantizo drone. My corn has well exceeded the height of the ground rig, and airplane application is not an option. Since I wanted to feed and protect the

By |2024-07-16T21:04:04-07:00July 16th, 2024|Ag News, Blog Post, Plant & Soil|Comments Off on This Week in Ag #74

Wastewater Wednesday: Swansea in Massachusetts Uses Federal Funding for Sewer Expansion

Welcome to Wastewater Wednesday with Andrew! Have you heard of the federal Community Project Funding yet? The Massachusetts’s town of Swansea has secured a whopping $1 million in funding through the program for an upcoming sewer collection system upgrade. Swansea is looking to expand growth and draw in more taxpayers and has drawn up and

By |2024-07-17T02:59:39-07:00July 10th, 2024|Blog Post, Environmental|Comments Off on Wastewater Wednesday: Swansea in Massachusetts Uses Federal Funding for Sewer Expansion

This Week in Ag #73

Growing up on the farm, we’d often eat our mid-day meal (what we referred to as dinner, but most of the world now calls lunch) at my grandparents’ house, which was the farm’s home base. It was a planned break from planting, harvesting, chore work, mowing, baling hay or one

By |2024-07-09T22:18:45-07:00July 9th, 2024|Ag News, Blog Post, Plant & Soil|Comments Off on This Week in Ag #73

This Week in Ag #72

How do you just find 1.5 million acres? That’s like finding two Rhode Islands. But that’s what USDA did on Friday, when they upped US corn acreage to 91.5 million, from the 90 million acres estimated in March. Predictably, that sent the market tumbling down. New corn prices are now trading

By |2024-07-02T20:05:55-07:00July 2nd, 2024|Ag News, Blog Post, Plant & Soil|Comments Off on This Week in Ag #72

This Week in Ag #71

Farmers are not fast forgetters. They have long memories. Past weather events, cultural practices, product usage, and marketing decisions often drive future decisions. With that, I’m guilty as charged. Last season, a straight-line wind caused major greensnap to a new corn hybrid, wrecking my goals. This made me take pause and

By |2024-07-18T16:54:23-07:00June 25th, 2024|Ag News, Blog Post, Plant & Soil|Comments Off on This Week in Ag #71

This Week in Ag #70

“We’re always only five days from a drought.” That’s the saying here in the Delta. And for good reason. These light soils are unforgiving, as they lack the water holding capacity of those in the Midwest. Case in point this season: after a very wet May in Memphis – where

By |2024-06-18T17:58:13-07:00June 18th, 2024|Ag News, Blog Post, Plant & Soil|Comments Off on This Week in Ag #70
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