I still vividly remember driving into Niobrara on March 26th, 2019. As I drove down the Verdigre Creek Valley and approached the Hwy 14 and Hwy 12 intersection, hundreds of acres in the Niobrara Valley were covered with thousands of giant blocks of ice. Later that summer I had the opportunity to fly over the […]
As we come to the end of 2020 and bid farewell to one of the strangest and most chaotic years in recent memory, the staff at Midplains Ag would like to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year with the hope that 2021 will return to some sense of normality. Just
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Today, we’re going to continue our discussion of the PRF, or the Pasture, Rangeland, Forage insurance policy. This is a policy that RMA has designed to help livestock producers with preserving cash flow to help buy feed for grazed cattle or replace lost income from haying in times of low rainfall. To help you better
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Greetings for the new year! As we hopefully start to leave COVID and the chaos of 2020 behind, I am reminded of another divisive period that Donna and I grew up in. With Vietnam, the riots or protests following Martin Luther King Jr.’s murder in 1968, Kent State and then Watergate, opinions were very divided.
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As we prepare for the 2021 crop season, we are in a very different situation compared to last year. Last year we were facing low prices with the prospect of even lower prices. This winter, prices are the highest we have seen in several years. Even with higher prices, we can’t afford to be
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Hello and greetings from Chicago. It’s a pleasure to be joining you virtually for the annual meeting again, and how things have changed this year. There’s really no Ag market on earth that we can find that’s been in a bear’s trend since summer and on their own fundamentals. And it’s part of, I think,
The main risks that Nebraska farmers face are price, hail, wind and drought. We are lucky here in that we have one of the best aquifers in the world under our feet to help us control the drought risk with irrigation. The primary tool we have available to mitigate the financial repercussions of the other
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Mud, rain, wind, and cold couldn’t stop the kids of the Way-Out-West 4-H club from visiting our new geothermal heated greenhouse on Sunday, March 14th. As you can see, we even had flooding in the greenhouse from all the rain! Once the outside dirtwork is finished flooding won’t be such an issue. The kids learned
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