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Royalfan5

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  1. Varies widely, but top end irrigated ground that can push 280 bu corn, is still below 250 cash rent for the most part. You have better property taxes than neighboring states too. You get out west and your cash rent is in the 30-50 per acre range, and irrigated is still in the low 100's for stuff that will push 200 bpa.
  2. Once we get past weed, can we get on the stick with mushrooms too? Probably do us all some good to eat some and watch Muppet reruns after the past year
  3. Not if your one of the ones you pay me to do that for them
  4. Weather variance makes Kansas an interesting place to farm because the ground is priced for the shitty weather years, but it's pretty much good enough dirt that the good years can blow away anyone else on returns. Of course, you're socially obligated to grow wheat, milo, and have cattle though.
  5. Yeah but when your cash rent is 70 bucks an acre it’ll do just fine
  6. Milo does well in dry conditions and China loves it. Usually trades at a discount of 30-50 cents to corn, currently is at 90-140 premium. The rub is that if it’s dry you’ll raise 90 bushel milo and 60 bushel corn, but if it’s good you’ll raise 100 bu milo and 160 bu corn. Also it’s really itchy and prone to create enough dust to blow up a grain elevator.
  7. That's why it's always fun for me when my Iowa clients bitch about weather and what not, to tell them about what my Kansas guys have to deal with.
  8. I get that. That being said, the current corn set up gets corn acres in parts of the Western Corn Belt that should be heavier on beans or sorghum in NE, KS, SD, and CO that the one size fits all stuff in the farm program shifts to corn.
  9. I'd also like to point out the main piece of subsisdation that keeps your corn acres up is that by and large the crop insurance program and how it's subsidized and set up is more lucrative for corn even in a supply environment that is crying out for more soybean acres.
  10. One of the dumbest things in political discourse is the fixation on family farms like they are only component of Agriculture in the US. (I saw this as someone who works with family farms for a living) Pretty much all your major field crops are still produced by family owned operations. Pretty much all of your cow herd is in the hands of family operations. The areas of livestock that have shifted into more corporate control like pork, poultry, and dairy have done so mostly for labor reasons, as having a small scale livestock operation is a shitty way to make a living because you can’t warrant outside labor, and it wears your body the fuck out. My Grandfather didn’t spend a single night away from home until he sold the dairy cows when he was in the late 50’s and his and my grandmas joints were shot from years milking in a flat parlor. Every hog man in my family excepting my dad who died young from cancer, have at least one joint fused or replaced. Same for all the neighbors. When you have to scale to warrant outside labor you can rotate it provides for a lot better quality of life for everyone. For your grain crops, it’s not near as exhausting on day to day basis, but it’s essential a long term real estate commodity play that takes a long time to payoff with significant risk in the meantime, which is not for everyone. Most of the family farms that are gone didn’t go broke, they decided that they didn’t want to run on that treadmill anymore, and their kids didn’t either, and we need to stop pretending otherwise. The misty vision of the family farm isn’t going to comeback, unless you explicitly pay people to live shittier lives so you can have them as museum pieces. The United States will keep trucking along as an agricultural power because of our natural resources and technology it just won’t look like you think it should.
  11. The real bitch is Colorado's on one side with the weed, and Missouri's on the other side with the good fireworks.
  12. I never thought the Scott Frost era was going to as well as many up here, but I never though it was going to nearly as embarrassingly as it has.
  13. For folks hard against unions, they sure have a hard time understanding what right to work/at will employment means in practice.
  14. Reminds me of when I was in Bangkok after the King had died, and our guide causally mention that they shoved a large stick up the King's ass to keep him propped up for the mourners filing by.
  15. That’s probably fair. I’ve always filed pools with the floats of the triple FFF approach to buying, and not given it a second thought
  16. This thread has made realize that pool ownership is a lot more common than I thought
  17. They mount them here for record snows here. Not every time, but when you’ve got a situation they can do in a pinch.
  18. Fire trucks can push a plow too
  19. I’ll just note their are massive fund longs in pretty much every Ag commodity right now, with corn and soybeans inverted and wheat nearly there.
  20. Maybe they all have secret second families in East Texas to support
  21. Probably ought to figure out a way to make Kobach ineligible too just in case
  22. I hope someone brings a cane and just beats Hawleys ass tonight and evens the score for Charles Sumner
  23. The cops today were like airline security in Laos where the only thing they used the detector wands were to wave you though and point where you could buy delicious ham salad and beer Lao
  24. Also, Mar-a-lago better be eminent domained by the Govt and turned into some sort of National landmark for Americans just as Lee’s farm became Arlington
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