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North Central US | Jon - 10/9/2025 12:22
GS2 - 10/8/2025 19:41
Jon - 10/8/2025 06:26
Im asking those in the north west that appear to be suffering the most because of low soybean basis? What did that land produce 10, 15, 20 years ago before the great china soybean export?
I honestly don't know and my question is likely to rub some the wrong way but here it goes. Around here we don't get cold enough all winter to be successful cattle producers beyond cows scattered out on pasture. But up north you guys freeze up solid all winter long. So my question is why are you continuing soybeans when you could produce more corn and run that silage, earlage, etc through cows on frozen ground? If i recall you have better access to packers also. There has to be a prettier girl in town than soybeans for the north.
Why does this read as someone who has never touched a farm or cow, let alone google or any reference or information material?
Trying to make straight lines in mamma's carpet.
Come and try to make a straight line in a 40 degree January blizzard. Sink up to the axles and can't see anything.
We don't freeze solid from October to May. Cows would probably be much happier if it didn't at all. One can easily buy silage near a river valley, for way more than it costs to grow it, but it is for some reason always available.
The cow infrastructure from Devils Lake east is basically gone, from DL west to Bismarck is questionable, and the state line to Mandan doesn't really have anything impressive, cow buying competition wise. A lot haul all the way to South Dakota, and not just Lemmon, further south and east, to get a good market.
Otherwise packers where? Nebraska? That is where all our steers go after the ring.
Williston supposedly exports something, no idea how much or where, but they aren't really anything anymore, unlike when they were part of the Held Beef chain. Sidney supposedly did do good business until it burnt up during a downturn.
The Rapid City plan has been laughed at so many times on here it isn't funny anymore.
Whats stopping you from more cows? Surely with your temperate weather down there and abundance of moisture you should have no problems with finding ground or feed for cows, plus you should have it easy with semi consistent weather. | |
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Location with bad soybean basis?
