The National Cover Crop Survey sheds light on the various benefits.

“People sometimes refer to farmland as an investment in gold, plus a coupon,” Bruce Sherrick says. “You get a fairly low annual cash flow, fairly high long-term rates of return and tax advantages to the asset classes.”

We have gradually resigned ourselves to Brazil being the leader, but last year they also took the top spot for corn exports, a tougher fact to swallow. There is more going on for the 2023-2024 growing season in Brazil.

Grains mostly higher on corrective buying, soybean export biz but watching weather, war news. Cattle lower on disappointing cash, hogs bounce with higher cutouts. Vince Boddicker, Farmers Trading Company, has details.

Out East, Ken Ferrie saw good corn crops with delayed maturity. Black layer will be pushed out to October. In the West, one Iowa field had the highest corn yield check of the season, while other fields were burned up.

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