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The 2019 Crop Year has been a year of unprecedented events, but the one major factor that trumps all (in the dictionary definition of the word), is the weather. The USDA cut the yield forecast for this year’s corn crop production by 10 bushels per acre, and of the 15.5 million acres not yet planted […]

Courtesy AgriPulse 2019 The Trump Administration has committed to paying US farmers aid payments to help subsidize the losses caused by the trade war with China. According to the USDA, “The Market Facilitation Program (MFP), Food Purchase and Distribution Program (FPDP), and Agricultural Trade Promotion Program (ATP) will assist agricultural producers while President Trump works to

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

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

Ben Buckner, AgResource Grain Market Specialist: Okay. Good afternoon. Midplains Ag and everyone in that part of the country. This is Ben Buckner from Ag resource company in Chicago. This is the third of our series of webinars. And not a whole lot has changed, but as we have seen the markets evolve over the

Hello to everyone at Midplains Ag and beyond. It’s a pleasure to be here again. Now that we’ve gone through the bulk of the summer, especially the bulk of the corn growing season, we have a pretty good idea of what is forthcoming. So unfortunately, the market outlook is still fairly negative, at least for

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.

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

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