In his podcast from June 25, 2019, Steve Savage takes a close look at the aging farm population and asks a very important and serious question… Who will continue operating our farms tomorrow, once today’s generation is gone? Who will continue to feed a good portion of the world? The emphasis is clear that this […]
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2019 has been a crazy weather year. The bomb cyclone of March in Nebraska. Now massive snow early October for North Dakota. Sure they are used to cold and some snow but I don’t think anyone is ready for a foot or more of snow in October. Except maybe me if it was on a
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Midplains Ag is happy to share the great announcement that USDA extended interest deferral again. Thursday November 14th was a blessed day for farmers after the many struggles that the 2019 growing season has provided. Thanks to the USDA for this much needed relief. “USDA had previously announced a deferral to November 30, 2019, providing producers with
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After a crazy spring and interesting summer (this year, we had more prevent plant claims and fewer hail claims than any other year since we started to sell crop insurance), it’s time to report 2019 production, settle any production claims still open and open any potential revenue claim. Revenue claims need to be opened by
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Just as the Nixon and Carter trade embargos of the 1970s are still shaping the farm economy in 2020, the hailstorm that hit Blair in early June of 2014 is shaping the risk management of Nebraska farmers in 2020. In 2006 when I was just getting into crop insurance, John Deere Risk Protection started a
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It’s our pleasure to be partnering with DTN to provide weather and insect data to our users. Check out this webinar to learn more about the data available from DTN devices. See an in-depth look at the app and tools provided by DTN.
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These unprecedented times are leading to some farmer-friendly USDA Risk Management Agency (RMA) decisions. In the wake of social distancing farmers, insurance agents, Approved Insurance Providers (AIP’s) and the RMA are having to learn how to use technology more. We already use a lot of technology we are just going to doing more with our
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Midplains Ag has been contracted by UNL to do Veris mapping on some fields in the Bazile Triangle, an area with very high nitrates in the groundwater. This area is located in the Creighton and Osmond areas. While scouting out the locations, I happened to see an old orange combine. It piqued my interest as
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As you are all wrapping up your planting season, we at Midplains Ag are getting excited & making plans for acreage reporting. At this time, acreage reports still need to be signed by July 15th. We know that seems like a long time right now, but it does sneak up on us quickly. We plan to
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Ben Buckner (AgResource, Grain Market Specialist): Okay. Greetings MidPlains Ag and greetings from AgResourceCompany in Chicago. It’s nice to be here again for our second webinar. And in this one we will discuss the USDA’s May Supply and Demand report, which, of course, is the first that features the new-crop US and global supply and
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