Curt Arens
MAKING DECISIONS: Grain marketing may not be an exact science, but there are principles involved in developing a marketing plan that allow producers to make the best decisions possible. Tough Decisions: Develop a plan that allows you to make the best choice possible.
Matt Stockton | Apr 06, 2021
Last year was difficult for those who are accustomed to making preharvest sales of the year’s corn crop. From 1979 to 2019, October’s average December futures prices were lower than February’s average December futures prices 70% of the time.
This is what many would call a normal seasonal pattern for prices, but this was not the case for the 2020 season. Instead, the typical March through July seasonal high was replaced by a later-fall seasonal high. Those familiar with commodity markets call this an inverted market.
Candace Krebs
The Ag Journal
Education and collaboration were repeatedly emphasized during the second-ever Ogallala Aquifer Summit, a virtual gathering space where hundreds of concerned farmers, researchers and resource managers shared ideas about how to preserve the vitality of a rural region that overlies one of the most heavily pumped underground reservoirs in the world.
Roughly 95 percent of all freshwater currently withdrawn from the eight-state aquifer goes to irrigate commodity crops.
Since the first aquifer summit in 2018, previous participants have expanded on several innovative programs or spread them to new areas.
The Kansas Water Office now has 15 water technology farms that demonstrate the latest irrigation technology in a real world setting.
BY Krystle Rhoades, TAPS Program Manager | January 18, 2021
NORTH PLATTE, Nebr., –The Testing Ag Performance Solutions (TAPS) awards ceremony was held virtually on Saturday, January 16, due to continuing Covid-19 restrictions. The TAPS program was created by University of Nebraska educators and specialists four years ago, as an innovative way of connecting producers to industry professionals and offering a way of testing out new advancing technologies through farm management competitions facilitated in North Platte at the West Central Research, Extension, and Education Center. The 2020 participants were honored Saturday evening with a number of awards.
The sprinkler irrigated sorghum contest, in its third year, had 12 teams. The award winners were as follows: Greatest Yield was won by Marc Rasmussen of Cambridge, NE; the Highest Input Use Efficiency award went to Scott Jewe