It seems you have your mind made up already, so I guess I won't bother wasting my time to try to moderate your lack of perspective.
I am no diehard pro-farmer. I think I have illustrated that there was a fair amount of hubris and materialism there for awhile that should have been replaced with gratefulness and savings.
That begin said, it's a real blend of people, and it's a real BLEND of reasons that have gotten the situation to this point.
You don't seem to grasp that, due to what I think is just prejudice. Please hold on to your hate with both arms, so that nobody else gets infected.
-Nate
2 weeks of corn futures in 4 hour candlesticks.
No hate. Just pointing out I hear it every year, too wet to plant. I'll hear it again next year.
...but I do have air conditioning...
...I would jump at the chance to expand and very envious of what they have. Often wonder how they view me?
My daughter has 200 acres in Huntingburg, passed down from the family. She has 3 different people planting corn on it.
A week ago I was listening to an interview of Tim Ryan who said that farmers were not planting because of Donald Trump and the Chinese tariffs. The wet weather never came up.
A week ago I was listening to an interview of Tim Ryan who said that farmers were not planting because of Donald Trump and the Chinese tariffs. The wet weather never came up.
My FIL writes crop insurance, and he says if they can't plant by the 10th then they just aren't going to. The losses will be too high.
2 weeks of corn futures in 4 hour candlesticks.
Different crop or just let it go to hay?
The soybean market ain't that hot right now, so that's not a great option.
I’m farming with antiques, tractor is a 1982, paid it off 25 years ago. Paid $5000 for my planter it’s a 96, combine is a 94. No auto steer, rate control or yield monitor but I do have air conditioning, a planter monitor to know if I’m planting and light bar for my sprayer. Farming sure has changed in the last 20 yrs. or so.
Watched my neighbors expand and change, take on debt, risk and stress that can’t be absorbed by one generation and I ask myself why? Yet as a now part time farmer I would jump at the chance to expand and very envious of what they have. Often wonder how they view me?
Different crop or just let it go to hay?
The soybean market ain't that hot right now, so that's not a great option.
For commodity prices to raise this drastically somebody is/going to take a big hit. Just think the best price in 3 yea and you can’t take advantage because it keeps raining and you have nothing planted, very frustrating for a lot of farmers.