Agriculture has a certain rhythm with seasons coming and going in a predictable pattern. We till, we plant, we control weeds, and so on in a seasonal pattern. Politics gets meaner. Weeds get tougher to control. But, within that rhythm each year presents a unique set of issues. As we enter the third year of […]
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If you weren’t able to attend our annual meeting, watch the replay of Ben Buckner’s presentation. Ben is a Grain Markets Specialist at AgResource. Video Transcript: Hello, Midplains. This is Ben Buckner with AgResource company in Chicago. It is always such a pleasure to be a part of your annual meeting, at least
AGRESOURCE: “AG MARKET VOLATILITY; THE RISING IMPORTANCE OF FOOD; A NEW ERA?” Read More »
Video Transcript: Three hundred bushel corn and 70 bushel beans. The beans are on the back page, okay. And this was a no rent. This is just your inputs. So you can go across there and you can put your own cost in there. I did this and I’ve been passing these out.
ANNUAL MEETING 2022: FERGUSON AG Read More »
Video Transcript: All right. Let’s see. See if we got this whole thing working here. All right. Awesome. So as Rich mentioned, I’m Jackson Stansell. I just founded Sentinel Fertigation to commercialize some of the work that we’ve been doing at UNL in cooperation with Rich. His operation over the past three years, this
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Have you ever wondered why nitrogen is so hard to manage? As you can see in the nitrogen cycle diagram below, the nitrogen that is available to plants is affected by many factors including weather and soils. These factors are complicated, and many are beyond the control of the farmer. To control the uncertainty created
WHY IS NITROGEN SO HARD TO MANAGE? Read More »
Our workforce here at Midplains Ag attends workshops held by the Underwriting (AIPs) companies, twice a yearly to keep updated with the current & upcoming changes occurring in crop insurance. Recently, after attending workshops for RCIS and AgriSompo this August. we would like to briefly mention a few items that might affect your operation. For
OUR TAKEAWAYS FROM WORKSHOPS THAT MAY AFFECT YOUR OPERATION Read More »
Wow! 2022 has been hot and dry here. The lack of rain is becoming evident all around us. Looks like an early dryland harvest for corn and soybeans but what about your pastures?? My experience so far is that the calves will be coming home sooner than we would like. Why? The extreme lack of
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The cost of farming has increased dramatically this year and the largest part of your bill will be fertilizer and the largest part of the fertilizer bill will be nitrogen fertilizer. While the environmental problems associated with the use of nitrogen fertilizer have been recognized for a long time, the economic value of
A NEW METHOD OF NITROGEN MANAGEMENT Read More »
MEETING TRANSCRIPT: Greetings from Chicago Mid-Plains and team. This has Ben Buckner with AgResource Company in Chicago. Once again, more than pleased to join your annual meeting to help the farming community, which is what we strive to do at AgResource with our vision for the future in terms of supply and demand and
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War, drought, politics, inflation, raising interest rates and more COVID, 2022 certainly had its share of disruptors. After peaking in April, commodity prices have slowly drifted lower. Nebraska corn yields were down 16%, with most of our clients seeing lower yields as well. Although drought, high fuel and fertilizer prices, and hard to get
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