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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.พ. 2025
- i am here to talk about farming and all that goes with it. today I like to wish everyone a safe and productive spring 2025. the inputs of farming are not going down anytime soon so we have to be smart about what we put out there and how we mange it. id like to say we will be ok this year but I don't know. id like to get a bumper crop with a fair price for it but ultimately I don't think that's going to happen. so be mindful and look for the best opportunities in your aria. I think corn is going to be a tricky crop this year because of the input costs.
I live in southern iowa and I have decided to buy a decent Deere sprayer and make a go at custom spraying for a lot of the neighbors. I figure that hopefully this will increase cash flow but time will tell. In the coming years I may diversify into wheat as well instead of the constant corn/soybean rotation here. I’m only 22 and I can see just doing the standard like we always have will not be fully viable if things continue this way!
We have started to sell directly to the customer from our poultry farm. A lot of livestock and vegetable farms around our area are doing the same. Middle man will make you go broke in a hurry! We even have a small dairy in our small town that built their own store. They make more money selling directly to the local area than prairie farms.
Keeping you in my thoughts Wes it’s very tough for farmers right now with such low prices
Farms are consolidating into larger units to compensate for lower margins. This is destructive to family farms who can't compete and also to local communities. We're on our way to industrialized scale farming the way we're going.
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There are a few nitrogen fixing products. Envita is a bacteria that was found fixing nitrogen in sugar cane, it is used on 3 or more different types of crops. The sugar cane bacteria was turned into a commercialized spray for when the corn (for example) is at V2-V3 or in-furrow liquid at seed planting./ The Oloton corn from Totonpec, Mexico is in the process of being hybridized with commercial corn varieties to develop a commercial Oloton hybrid. Oloton corn has aerial root structures. The aerial root structures produce a sweet mucus that feeds (nitrogen fixing from the air) bacteria. A commercial Oloton corn hybrid could potentially self-provide 40 percent of its own nitrogen requirements./ South Hemisphere Summer - the maize for dairy silage is a few weeks away from harvest, the few blocks I regularly see the upper leaves appear to be turning yellow, as the ears mature. A cold weather blast in the first week of January was unusual, as the day peak temps are usually 1Celsius to 2Celsius (1Celsius = 1.8Fahrenheit) above summer days in recent years.
I love having chickens i have 20 hens and 2 roosters. i supply almost all my family with eggs i cant bring myself to sell the eggs so i just give them away. what i love more than the eggs is that i get their manure for my garden and my veggies thrive, and i do sell me vegetables. plus nothing goes to waste when you have chickens they are little garbage disposals. if you have leftover food that goes bad we don't throw it away we throw it too the chickens and they cycle it and give me eggs. they are also my end of the year garden clean up crew, ill take down my garden fence and the rotten tomatoes and whatnot feed the flock for several weeks. there's so many benefits to keeping chickens around the farm.
The input costs are just criminal. The OEMs are price gouching. The big two auto manufacturers do the same along with Stellantis. I discovered my main hydraulic pump was leaking on my 4020. I'll rebuild it myself but for the time saving factor, I priced a new one from Deere. Over $4100. New aftermarket from a reputable company, $1100. Went to get snap rings for the transmission input shaft on my Super 77 Oliver. Agco wants $69 for a $3.00 part.
Good video.
Imo. Farms are going to have to start selling direct . Whether it's grain or sugar beets. We need more smaller markets or at least domestic processors. Like me selling wool to a blanket company in Maine.
I think the hard frost we experience this winter will help get the nutrients into the ground and is the best aerator for ground without tillage
Order a box of chicks or Tractor Supply dozen and get the kid set up. Easy feed availability. Even build a simple A-frame style (so adults can fit in it) chicken tractor and drag it every day across an area around the house not used for much else.
My son lives in a small town in Indiana, he has chickens, turkeys, and piggy goats, he says he's going to raise what he eats,unfortunately everyone can't do that I buy my meat at a Local small butcher shop
I have to say you have done your research on the fertilizer do's and don't's
As quickly as the fertilizer and seed companies seem to jack up their prices when the markets have a significant unexpected increase, I sure hope they are getting pressure from all of their customers that they need to adjust their prices downward in times like we have now.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, ideas and videos. Always enjoy listening to your outlook on things. Agree with your wish that things improve with the Trump administration. So far the only non answer, answer was what we got on the drone activities. The FAA knew and approved what was happening?? Ok why did they appear not to know at the time and why are you still less than forthcoming with the facts? It’s ok to say it was government activity and we prefer not to get into details. At least then it’s an legitimate actual answer. Wishing you and your family the best, and god bless you and your family too.
Many individual consumers think that if you as a farmer sell to a broker wholesale, you should sell to them at wholesale prices, too.
Farm stands I've stopped at are not over priced, some items seems i can get far better quality for not much more money.
I believe they mostly go for pet for pet food and chicken tika masala
If you want a good monitor on prices watch the cost of gas and diesel, funny how gas prices go up and down but diesel stays stupid high, and if you didn't happen to know, Diesel is the first product from the refinery process not gasoline
I'm seeing a 70 cent difference in prices at the pump within a 20 mile radius. That's for diesel.
Farm stand scams: over 80% of the fruits and vegetables sold at farm stands are NOT grown by the seller. Been studied and reported about. I've been suckered into buying from stands. Then I go to walmart or sams and see the same product for half the price. Biggest scams in my area are early strawberries, "local" honey, and pecans.
Like the one a mile away from me. Got whacked by the state department of agriculture for putting up 'Jersey Fresh' signs when they were buying everything from Gargiolo Produce, which is a Pennsylvania distrubutor who gets product from all over the place.
Wes makes too much sense , sadly the sheep won't/don't hear as the word "FREE" isn't part of the message.
As a producer at the dirt level he knows "work" (muscles,sweat ,tears)and hope makes a farm.. also RAIN..
Isn’t a lot of this situation connected to Russian war against Ukrain, making the cost of fertilizer skyrocket because one of the major producers of fertilizer was in the Ukrain?
Does anyone ever use alfalfa as a cover crop (that produces nitrogen)?
for the cost of seeding alfalfa, IMO it works better as a rotational crop in a regenerative system. Plant it, get it going well and make hay off of it for 4 years (maybe not as intensively, like 3 cuts a year instead of 4) and then rotate back into corn. There used to be an 'annual' alfalfa available from Albert Lea Seeds for cover crop but they don't appear to offer it anymore.
I believe back in the day go to Campbell soup. But today they are euthanized. Because of peoples feelings got in the road of reality. They made farming more expensive.