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19 hours ago, funhusker said:

Literally the very next paragraph:

 

"In Louisiana, up to 15 percent of the oilseed crop is being plowed under or is too damaged to market, according to data analyzed by Louisiana State University staff. Crops are going to waste in parts of Mississippi and Arkansas. Grain piles, dusted by snow, sit on the ground in North and South Dakota. And in Illinois and Indiana, some farmers are struggling to protect silo bags stuffed with crops from animals."

 

I think you might be sticking a little hard to this one issue.  The issue of tilling under damaged crops, and farmers leaving in the field isn't a wide problem by itself.  But it is a symptom of a larger crisis.  That is that farmers produced way more grain than the market needs.  Like BRB said, a lot of farmers had a great crop, just nowhere to go with it.

 

As to the bolded: I would say the price of soybeans is a pretty big indication of a problem.

 

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.

5 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

 

I'm confused.  Where in the article does it say there are crops rotting in the fields in Nebraska?

 

Ou crops were very good this year. Just wish they were worth something and the elevator had a place to ship them too.

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.

43 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

Actually, my family is a 4th generation farming family and I actively manage the farm land now.  Our other business is involved in agriculture.  I have an agribusiness degree and my first love was wanting to be in the cattle business.  We own one of the oldest farms in the county and our farm is the location of the first well drilled in the county.  My grandfather is in the Nebraska Agriculture hall of fame for innovation in agriculture.  My father invented products that are still used today for farming.  He was on several committees at UNL developing products and markets for agriculture.  He was designated an admiral in the Great Navy of Nebraska because of his work as a state Ambassador working on these projects.  My son is now in Agribusiness and Agronomy at UNL and hopes to work in the industry.  I personally have invested in cattle over the years and still pay quite a bit of attention to the industry along with actively managing our farm and marketing our crops.

 

What were you asking again???

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?

8 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

Actually, my family is a 4th generation farming family and I actively manage the farm land now.  Our other business is involved in agriculture.  I have an agribusiness degree and my first love was wanting to be in the cattle business.  We own one of the oldest farms in the county and our farm is the location of the first well drilled in the county.  My grandfather is in the Nebraska Agriculture hall of fame for innovation in agriculture.  My father invented products that are still used today for farming.  He was on several committees at UNL developing products and markets for agriculture.  He was designated an admiral in the Great Navy of Nebraska because of his work as a state Ambassador working on these projects.  My son is now in Agribusiness and Agronomy at UNL and hopes to work in the industry.  I personally have invested in cattle over the years and still pay quite a bit of attention to the industry along with actively managing our farm and marketing our crops.

 

What were you asking again???

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. 

3 minutes ago, funhusker said:

Do farmers have damaged crop in your area?  If so, are the elevators taking them with no problem?

 

As far as the bolded:  That's the issue the article takes on.  Bins are full.  Much fuller than usual and there isn't a demand to match the inventory.  

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.

20 minutes ago, jsneb83 said:

Well, I talked to my uncles over Thanksgiving and they're telling me similar stories about what's happening with them and other farmers they know. So I'm going to take their words over yours. Sorry

What did your uncles tell you, and where are they located?

13 minutes ago, funhusker said:

I think you may need to read the article.  It doesn't say there are rotting piles of soybeans.  It says that local co-ops are not buying damaged grains because there is no room.  Therefore, farmers with damaged crops left them in the field and cut losses.

 

 

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.

39 minutes ago, funhusker said:

I'd be excited to here some good news.  Please share.

I'd be excited to know where these large piles of rotting grain are located.

On 11/21/2018 at 7:57 AM, BigRedBuster said:

Thanks Trump. 

 

 

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.

Just now, Husker from Kansas said:

 

I can agree with this, a lot of farmers around here are struggling more due to poor yields then the what the tariff's will do. But I think the real travesty is the fact that the small time farmer is almost non existent. Farmers feel pressured to farm more land, have bigger equipment, larger yields, etc, etc. This has caused a lot of farmers to go into massive debt in order to buy the necessary equipment, seed, fertilizer, fuel and everything else it takes. 

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.

Clifford you are watching too much CNN...the drought this year has hurt farmers more than the tariffs will.

22 hours ago, VectorVictor said:

I posted this elsewhere and got blasted for it, but back home over the summer, I usually stop in some of the smaller towns in SE and Central Nebraska, usually because the smaller towns still know my family name and I can get good stories about my late father, grandfather, and/or grandmother (or dirt on my current aunts/uncles).

 

The *same* thing I heard over and over again was about these tariffs and how their soybean crop was worth only a fraction of what it was previously (when costs of planting are factored in), and that many of the family farmers are going to be in dire fiscal straits with these actions from Washington. Sure, it's anecdotal, but when you go from cafe to cafe, and it's the same story all over, it gives you pause to think what the long-term impact of this will be.

 

Of course, corporate farming is salivating at all of the purchase opportunities that are lining up for them should this come to fruition...

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.

i will be at my sons football games instead of watching friday night huskers

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.

I just saw that tweet too...I'll keep my fingers crossed!!!

RIP LP. Sad story.

Best of luck! I will keep you and your family in my prayers!!

 

Send PETA after me. I have killed 200-500 coon per fall for the last 20 years.

 

Places like PETA exist to line the pockets of their administration. They are a joke. As are the animal rescue places around here, like the one in Auburn Nebraska.

For what purpose?

 

To support my family, via the sale of their finished hides to a Canadian auction house.

Some years it good money, some years its not. I also have a full time 60 hour a week job, and my wife has a good job (RN) so its not our sole source of income. It allows me to buy things for our family that we normally wouldn't be able to buy.

Send PETA after me. I have killed 200-500 coon per fall for the last 20 years.

Places like PETA exist to line the pockets of their administration. They are a joke. As are the animal rescue places around here, like the one in Auburn Nebraska.

_WTF???

Good, I was worried I ruffled feathers! I didn't post with that intention!!

No, I just don't post a lot on this forum. I enjoy reading everyone's thoughts on the Huskers, but as far as posting I haven't felt comfortable posting because everything seems to turn into a pissing match. I just was amazed this morning as I began to look at some of the forums I frequent that everyone thinks Mandela was such a great man, and thought I would express my opinion. Do you have a problem with that?

Its another case of the liberal media making someone a hero. He was a bad man, and his wife is just as bad. They have the blood of tens of thousands people on their hands.

Hope he's burning in Hell. Google Mandela Genocide and read up on how many people him and his wife are responsible for the deaths of in South Africa. You won't hear a peep about this from the mainstream media, but its out there. Another thing you can google is "Mandela Necklaces"

I'm mainly a lurker, and don't post much. I live about 30 miles from Hiawatha, one of my friends from there who is friends with Peyton posted this link on Facebook I thought i'd share it here if anyone is interested. ESPN radio interview with him... http://espn1007.com/go/audio/?id=842&t=interview-hiawathas-d-i-prospect-peyton-newell

I just heard that also, hope its true!