Grain Marketing Articles & Analysis
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Grain carts are an effective way to reduce equipment wear and field compaction. Why waste expensive combine hours stopping to unload onto trucks at the end of the field? Or worse, exposing your operation to yield loss by compacting the ground with trucks in the field? Both these practices waste precious harvest time and put unnecessary wear on your equipment. Grain carts stay on the field, ...
With land values, input costs, machinery pricing and an increasingly competitive global market, maintaining an edge has never been so important to your operation. Staying strong on all fronts – strategic planning, agronomic practices, smart grain marketing and everything in between – is about working efficiently with your on-farm team ...
At a time when grain markets continue to strain row crop revenue potential, many farmers are taking steps to do all they can to maximize productivity and yields. ...
Farmers are now able to test the quality of their grain, and then store it on-farm to preserve its identity. Increasingly efficient trucks with advanced routing capabilities can bring identity-preserved, high quality grain from farmer to buyer. ...
Combine Data Like grain carts, your yield monitor data is only as good as its calibration with grain carts or scale weights. ...
“This spring was extremely soggy, but with the combination of the cover crops and hydraulic downforce, we were out planting in a lot of no-till fields when other guys were sitting,” Hutchinson says. “Given the grain markets we’re facing today, it’s important to hit these timeframes, and Hydraulic Down Force was the right technology ...
This tightening of world food supplies contrasts sharply with the last half of the twentieth century, when the dominant issues in agriculture were overproduction, huge grain surpluses, and access to markets by grain exporters. During that time, the world in effect had two reserves: large carryover stocks of grain (the amount in ...
In the arid Middle East, Egypt took in 14 million tons of grain, largely wheat for bread, making up 39 percent of its grain consumption. ...
Nearly half the calories consumed around the world come directly from grain, with grain-fed animal products making up part of the remainder. ...
Can we head off ever more intense crop-withering heat waves before they create chaos in world grain markets? These are all climate-change issues, but they have something else in common: food. ...
National Academy of Sciences, an international team of scientists confirmed the rule of thumb emerging among crop ecologists that for each 1 degree Celsius rise in temperature above the norm during the growing season, we can expect a 10-percent decline in wheat and rice yields. In a world with limited grain stocks—a world that is only one poor harvest away from chaos in ...
They sell their subsidized fuel at black market rates of between 1,600 and 1,800 Zimbabwe dollars per liter. Instead of powering tractors and producing food, they sell it for quick and easy profits. ...