fredericksburg, va | eastndfarmer - 8/5/2025 08:18
One observation that I have found fascinating about this program is going back 2-3 years. The crops of 23/24 were fantastic. Just look at the overall US yield for corn and soys. Talking to neighbors everyone was bragging about yields and the where did it come from stories.
Fast forward to a SDRP payment and same guys discussing the payments. How did you collect of your crops were so good? Funny how that works. Just shuffle the bushels and collect every year apparently.
I actually like this style of program because it really helped the true disaster areas. But it also helps the fraudulent guys collect over and over again
2025 is different. Looks to be a good crop just horrible low prices. So how do you write a program for that. MFP isn’t fair to those that don’t have a great crop when paid per bushel.
24 crop fantastic???? Speak for yourself! In VA 23 was good/ OK. In 24 I know of MANY corn ac that were disc under , Now soybeans were ok, but corn was a disaster! And VA wasn't alone MD east KY and Wv were affected also. Yeah in thr big pic we don't matter we know that, But we still have seed , fert, and chem companies to pay. and not all of them got payed.. This year we are going to have a decent/good crop. But at this yrs prices its just trading dollars. Some people got burned last yr (contracted grain and then no crop to sell) and were afraid to forward contract this yr. This is a tuff business! This SDRP is the only thing keeping some people going |
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