In last year’s letter, we talked about war, drought, politics, inflation, rising interest rates, and COVID-19, all of which happened in 2022. The only thing that changed in 2023 was that inflation was not as bad. When I was young, Vietnam and Watergate dominated the news, but I don’t recall the country being as divided […]
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Hope you are enjoying celebrating the holiday season and this letter finds you well. 2023 was an unusual year for the weather in Nebraska. Wet in the west and dry in the east. That led to highly variable dryland yields and good irrigated yields. With the decline in prices that started with the huge 2023
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WHAT WE ARE UP TO It seems that once we get past new year’s, our crop business really starts to get busy with finishing production reports and planning our spring insurance meeting. After we looked at the competing events that we wanted to attend – the NEATA Conference on February 1st & 2nd and Precision
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Supply Markets Often Not Lasting; This One Not Over Yet, However The market finally has begun to reconcile severe and expanding dryness, and a very likely lack of rainfall through the remainder of July. The major forecasting models are having some issues in outlooks beyond 7 days or so, but there’s a general consensus that
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Midplains Ag, UNL Extension, and Nebraska Soybean Board are happy to have Olivia Kellner of Climate Impact Company speak at our 2nd annual Irrigation field day. Come join us to hear about “Using Weather Forecasts to Manage Farm/Fields”. She will be discussing the long-range forecast and how to utilize forecasts in general. Olivia Kellner Olivia
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WEEK OF JANUARY 9TH Ryan chatting with attendee THANK YOU January 11 & 12 Midplains Ag had a booth at the 30th Annual Northeast Nebraska Farm & Equipment Show. Thank you to Farm Show Productions and News Talk WJAG 780 AM & 105.9 FM for putting on a great show. I would say
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Midplains Ag and the University of Nebraska are planning on holding the 2017 “Irrigation Field Day” on August 30. It will be held at the same location 3 miles south and 5 ½ miles west of Elgin on 836 road. Setting up the tent for the 2016 “Irrigation Field Day” The format
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SPRING PRICE DISCOVERY Crop insurance revolves around two prices, the “Spring Projected Harvest Price” and the “Fall Final Harvest Price”. The “Spring Projected Harvest Price” is set using the average closing prices of the December corn contract and the November soybean contract during the month of February. The “Fall Final Harvest Price” is set by
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Ethanol Production Resumes Record Pace; Bullish Crude? US ethanol plants through the week ending last Friday totaled 310.5 million gallons, up 5 million on the week and a healthy 10 million above the same week in 2016. Seasonal weakness in production occurred, as usual, in early fall, but the pace of US ethanol production has
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IN RECENT YEARS IRRIGATORS have begun to install variable frequency drives (VFDs) to monitor and control the speed of their irrigation pumps powered by electricity. The questions that were answered recently are: Should VFD be installed on all electric motor power irrigation pumps? and, Will they pay for the expense of VFD installation? WHAT IS
PAYING FOR A VARIABLE FREQUENCY DRIVE BY BILL KRANZ, EXTENSION IRRIGATION SPECIALIST Read More »
