Commodity Marketing
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Production Down, Income Up in 2011
We posted a couple weeks ago about production for almost all of the major crops in 2011 being down from 2010. Even though, production was down, income for most of these crops seems to be up in 2011 from 2010. A recap of the major crops are as follows: Corn $76.5 billion up from $64.7 […]
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Almost All Crop Productions were down in 2011!
With another year of low corn production, but high acres, did this negatively affect the total production for other crops in 2011. The USDA just released the final numbers on US crop production for 2011 and I thought I would take a look. The major findings are as follows: Corn production down 1% to 12.4 […]
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Some Interesting Dairy Cow Facts
We like to poke around in the Census of Agriculture report that is issued every five years. You can always find something interesting in these reports. For today, I wanted to review some of the information about dairy cows from the 2007 census. For that year, there were a total of 69,890 farms that were considered […]
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Top Producer Seminar – Day Two
Wow, what an action packed day. First, breakfast was at 6 am to get the day started. At 7 am, we had the taping of the show for the US Farm Report to air this weekend. At 8:15, my breakout sessions started. Each one last 55 minutes and were back-to-back-to-back. I thought the last session […]
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Top Producer Seminar – First Day
The Top Producer Seminar started out today with a bang. Peter Zeihan with Stratfor Group gave an interesting presentation on the economic outlook in general and for ag. It was very interesting to see a map with an outline of the world’s river systems and how that has affected the world’s economy over the last […]
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Tomorrow’s Top Producer Recap
Today was the Tomorrow’s Top Producer at the Chicago Hilton. Several speakers gave great presentations on various subjects. Chris Barron of Carson and Barron Farms, Inc. gave a very interesting hour and half seminar on creating effective collaborations of multiple generations of farmers and farms. This collaboration does not utililize a formal partnership for the operation, but rather gets like […]
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See You in Chicago
On Monday, my wife and I will be traveling to Chicago for the Top Producer seminars that begin on Tuesday. Tuesday is set aside for the Tomorrow’s Top Producer and I will be speaking at a breakout session dealing with what is the right entity selection for a beginning Top Producer. The main Top Producer […]
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Is This a Different Farm Boom?!
I think the Kansas City Federal Reserve is one of my favorite sites to get good farm information. In a recent issue of the Main Street Economist Agricultural and Rural Analysis, they had an article entitled “Is This Farm Boom Different?” The article recapped the two primary farm booms of the 20th century. In the […]
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More Farm Export Facts
Following up on my post from yesterday, here are some more interesting farm export facts. Total 2011 agricultural exports are expected to $137 billion. This is an all time high with 2008 in second place at $115 billion. An interesting note is that farm imports were $93 billion which is primarily comprised of fruits, vegetables […]
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Some Interesting Farm Export Facts
The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City puts on an Ag Symposium each year. It was held July 19-20, 2011 in Kansas City and here are some interesting farm export facts that I gleaned out of reading their information which is available online. The share of the US crops that is exported each year is as follows: […]