southeast nebraska | JRCS Farms - 8/12/2024 09:08
This oughta stir the pot… why not diversify? The boogeyman solar panels are paying $2000 an acre here. Every acre of solar panels results in one less acre of corn or beans in the Midwest, which is exactly what the market is saying needs to happen. Why not cut out your fungicide passes? Maybe you can’t push yield to 250 but if you can grow 220 and the whole country loses somewhere between 10-20 bushels an acre what would your revenue be? Should be a lot better than it is today, imagine the panic in the market if the USDA printed a 166 yield. There are a lot of things we do to be the highest yielding producer. High cost fertilizer, whether it’s commercial or buying litter from big bird farms for insane prices. Lots of micro mixes, miracle in a jug type stuff that can have a positive roi but changes the total number of bushels which then lowers price. It’s not very complicated but we make it complicated. At $6 grow every bushel you possibly can through any means necessary. At $3.50 have the lowest cost possible that can still put out an average ear. I’m a huge supporter of small family farms, we are a small family farm. But the downside to such a fractured and independent industry is that at the end of the day we’d rather run the neighbor out of business to gain an inch ahead of everyone else. And we got our wish, guys will fold, either retire and rent to whoever can pay the most or go bankrupt and also see that ground go to a BTO directly or to a landholding group that will have a BTO farming it. Who is killing the American farmer? The American farmer.
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