Is corn harder to dry this year?

As a hog farmer, I am hearing a lot right now about how hog farmers have to reduce our numbers, because there are too many hogs being produced and prices are so low.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) is in the process of developing a Long Range Plan to help guide the Agency into the future.

We are in south-central Missouri with NO nearby hydrants, so we rely on ponds or rivers for water resupply.

Will corn prices go up 25 to 30% next year?

Having grown up on a small farm, I know how tough it can be on families to make a go of it.

There's a major socio-economic catastrophe happening in America that if left unchanged will make the effects of Katrina on the gulf coast look trivial.

We are in a near life and death struggle here in he Mid-Atlantic region and in many areas across the country. It is not from disease, weather, or insect invasion, but power companies.

After last years heavy rainfalls, and the ditches that it caused to our fields all over the Midwest, you would think that more people would no till, strip crop, or at least install grass waterways.

The government is paying $100 a acre to put tillable land in CRP. They take whole farms and let it grow up to dead hay, a terrible fire hazard for the whole country.

Read what farmers are saying about enrolling in the Average Crop Revenue Enterprise (ACRE) program.

Read one farmer's thoughts on the current market situation.

Why produce wheat or durum wheat on re-crop ground with expensive fertilizer and chemicals for a poor world demand?

I am worried about the survivability of farmers in my area of the South. To help them maintain their farms while Wall Street and credit markets crash, I think we need to rescind or delay the PVP laws concerning saved seed from farmers.

We may loose less money not raising anything this year. I think we will have to form an alliance and finally take control of our commodities and stop allowing the Board of Trade control them.