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With fertilizer prices elevated, farmers are looking for relief wherever they can find it. The question is whether suspending the Jones Act is a key piece of the puzzle.
Input costs are up $15 billion since February, diesel is roughly double and credit demand at Land O’Lakes’ financing business is already surging for next season, Beth Ford says.
Growers are locking in inputs earlier, paying on terms that run past harvest, and treating credit as part of the agronomic plan instead of a last-minute add-on.
Starting this fall, FBN’s Norm will surface daily, farm-specific insights, and by spring it aims to act on them, with Google supplying the AI models.
Vision without a written plan is just a daydream. Here’s why putting your goals on paper, and doing the math, changes everything.
With corn and soybean yields in question and price rationing back on the table, Gulke says the farmers who treat volatility as the enemy — instead of the opportunity — are the ones left holding the top.
The Evansville facility will be Wisconsin’s first large-scale soybean crush plant — processing 80 million bushels annually and lifting CHS’s total crush capacity by more than two-thirds when it opens in 2028.
People, insurance and having a plan in place are easy to overlook, but they can have a big impact when the unexpected happens.