Time is right demand is growing world wide.... just not on your door step...................
specifically elcheapo ----- stop pretending you have a local market...... if the local coop can make 20 cents on your corn, 25 on your wheat, and 30 cents on your beans for only a 38 miles transfer. and still loose money........ theyre not a market ............ Consolidation was a sign of failure and failure to compete. You cannot afford that middle man. Times change always.....
Best markets
corn.(milo unless export) -------(-10) market is sw. your right....no question and there is 30 cents more than you quoted if it goes to ethanol or a feedlot... instead of dumping it back into the coop system.
Beans ......(-50).. only two markets all along......nothing new...... less than 100 miles from the a market that pays you 70 cents per bu more than home.... this is your market.
Wheat ----- (-10) a gain of 25 cents for only 38 miles. If your not doing that your ignoring that you live close to the best market in ks....
Those are your markets, If they are too far away from you to deal with then your area does not care about agriculture any more, because it hasn't supported those industries that use your production.......welcome to kansas run by Teachers..........:)........... and your too far north for cotton.
Sw lives in a great area that still supports agriculture. The smells of meat processing, feeding, cattle and hog, dairy, and the constant flow of cattle busses on the highway is worth the 50-80 cent bonus we get for our grain.........We get it because we wanted it, needed it, and will do what other areas won't, to improve our economic future. But elcheapo's area (still primarily agriculture based is against Tyson in their area) and most of kansas votes against agriculture, its largest industry, over and over. So the grain corn and milo market move farther away and there is a cost to our producers that will eventually close out farming in some areas.
We get excited to sell so much corn to Mexico, the trains pass through almost daily and feed demand that we vote against..... Kansas and maybe the midwest pays a price for our choices nationally and locally. We want selfishly, vote selfishly, live selfishly and for some reason have lost the ability to do simple math or care for our neighbors. Teachers lead the way to some of the most foolish decisions in Topeka, form the biggest lobby and produce very little in economic return or tax revenue. And don't want to live in dying towns. Selfish selfish selfish.
Reading recommendation ------- "What do you do with a chance?" by Kobi Yamada
Tops my list on self help issues. not joking.......
We wonder where the future is for our grandkids............ It is hard to imagine Kansas without agriculture.... Do we leave them a chance?
