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Rain delay: Planting screeches to a halt
Area farmers planted at breakneck speed in April and early May. Then the rains came.
Predictions of a fast spring going away
The expected fast pace of spring planting due to dryness over much of the Midwest has gone away. Marlin Clark offers insight into the grain markets.
Prepare your dairy herd now for the fall football season
Just like an effective football coach, you must prepare and coach your herd to perform properly in the fall and prepare the cow herd to win each game.
Futures markets strong on COVID news, exports
Prices on the Chicago Board of Trade continue to please producers. Marlin Clark weighs in on recent fluctuations in grain prices.
We have to start somewhere
Alan Guebert breaks down factors affecting various agricultural markets during the COVID-19 shutdowns and subsequent economic downturn.
Watch the traffic, not the lights
A good friend recently reminded me of a story Jackie “Moms” Mabley liked to tell about how easily people are misled into trusting the wrong thing or person. “People always tell me ‘Moms, watch the lights’ when I’m crossing the street,” Moms would relate, “and I’d always ask, ‘Why?’ I mean, lights never killed nobody,
Traveling journal: Wagons go west
In the traveling journal of Laura Ingalls Wilder, it is interesting to read not only of their daily trials and tribulations as they headed west in their covered wagon, but of the local farming struggles in the barren soil of 1894.
Grain prices perk up on fundamental news
Grain prices improved dramatically Nov. 8 on the Chicago Board of Trade. Marlin Clark weighs in on the factors affecting the grain markets.
Grazing: Explore extended grazing season forage options
With many harvested small grain fields that weren’t double cropped to soybeans now sitting idle, cattlemen still have an excellent opportunity to create high quality forages that may be grazed well into winter, and even next spring.
The grain market is getting ugly
We knew when we had high prices that the year would come when the costs did not go down as much as the grain prices did. Now we are there, and it is ugly.
