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  1. I can't speak of Louisiana oilseed, and I do not know what crops they are speaking of in Mississippi and Arkansas. I don't think that the grain piles dusted by snow in ND. and SD are something unusual, that happens every year. The silo bags in Illinois and Indiana being damaged by animals is also something that happens every year. I get complaint calls from farmers all the time for animals damaging silage bags around here. The price of soybeans is fluid right? Look at a graph of the 20 year average price of soybeans. This isn't the first year that prices have been this low, or lower for beans.
  2. Sorry to confuse you... "Across the United States, grain farmers are plowing under crops, leaving them to rot or piling them on the ground, in hopes of better prices next year, according to interviews with more than two dozen farmers, academic researchers and farm lenders. It’s one of the results, they say, of a U.S. trade war with China that has sharply hurt export demand and swamped storage facilities with excess grain. " I would assume that by saying across the United States, that the article is implying that this is a wide spread problem? I would also assume that by saying across the United States encompasses all of the United States and last I looked Nebraska was considered a State? Like I said I deal with farmers every day, from Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, and Missouri. I have been given no indication that there is a problem, nor have I had any of them they are plowing under crops, leaving them to rot, or piling them on the ground. I would also like to apologize for my spelling/punctuation neither are strong points of mine.
  3. What % of your crops were damaged in the 2018 harvest, and what did you do with them, or what are you planning on doing with them? What type of damage did they have?
  4. What I am asking is where are these damaged crops that the elevators aren't taking, that the article was talking about? Congrats on wanting to be in the cattle business, that is a great first love. I know I take great pride in taking care of my cows/calves every morning and night after I work my regular job in town. So, tell me where these damaged crops in fields are here in Nebraska, or the large piles of damaged grain.
  5. I guess you need to specify what type of damage your talking about. There are various things a crop will be docked for. I have not heard any farmers talk about not being to sell any grain here in my area because of damage. I have been involved heavily in the ag. industry through my business, and through my own farming for 30+ years, and haven't heard of any widespread problems with damage. Some years Aflatoxin is a problem, but I don't believe it was this year here in my area at least.
  6. What did your uncles tell you, and where are they located?
  7. I have not seen nor heard any talk of farmers not harvesting crops in order to cut losses here in my area of Nebraska. Was it just the one farmer in Louisiana that did this? In the article is talked of large piles of snow dusted corn...that is not really something new, most years that is a common way to store corn once the bins are full.
  8. I'd be excited to know where these large piles of rotting grain are located.
  9. Do any on you actually know what is going on with farms/farmers/farming, or do you just believe all this crap? No wonder this country is in the shape it is in.
  10. I agree, but that has gradually been happening over the last 20 or so years. Its happened to the pig farmers, and the row crop farmers mostly, but I also see it happening to the cattlemen. I think a lot of it has to do with young people not staying around the small rural communities to farm/ranch. The town I work in, and grew up in has also really changed the last 20 or so years, and I attribute much of the change to the decline of small family farms. The last two years have been pretty tough rain wise here in extreme southeast Nebraska. We have finally gotten some rain the last week, and it will help some. We will get by though.
  11. Clifford you are watching too much CNN...the drought this year has hurt farmers more than the tariffs will.
  12. I'm not really hearing/seeing much of that talk here in S.E. Nebraska. In fact I don't know if I have heard anyone bring up the tariffs.
  13. Ya, me too. I wonder how many parents of kids playing HS football are at each Husker game? I would think it would be a substantial ammount....and I would assume that most would rather go to their kids games instead of the Husker game.
  14. I just saw that tweet too...I'll keep my fingers crossed!!!
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