John Phipps: Farmland Isn't Vanishing as Quickly as Some Think John Phipps: Farmland Isn't Vanishing as Quickly as Some Think
| | | | | Ag media have a few topics that seem to never go out of fashion. One is “we’re paving over farmland”. While it is true, John Phipps thinks it is way overblown. Read More | | |
| | | | | If you start in 1960 in "Real" dollars (based on 2010 being the base), non-real estate and farm real estate debt was about the same at $75 billion. However, in 2020, non-real estate farm debt is at about $150 billion whereas farm real estate debt is over $250 billion. Read More | | |
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| | | | | Months of anticipation came to an end Jan. 10 when USDA unleashed a wave of survey-based data. The World Ag Outlook Board (WAOB) also made a much-needed reset on the demand side of the corn balance sheet. Read More | | |
| | | | | According to the United States Drought Monitor, as of Thursday, February 13, 46 percent of California is considered abnormally dry. Nearly 10 percent of the state is under a moderate drought. Read More | | |
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| | | | | My corn will make 300 to 400 less dollars per acre than the year before because of dock on moisture, low test weight and lower yield. Beans will be around the same as the year before. Thanks for the kind words from Delaware county, I think the reason we get so sour is the insurance,fertilizer, seed,chemical companies and end users begged us to plant so they all got their money, we get rewarded with extreme docks, poor yields and poor price. Most of us that can't wait to get out have done this for way too many years and know it will never change. Read More | | |
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