Purdue's
@JaysonLusk
offers jolting look at urban-rural divide: 7.5% of today's farms, around 159,000, produce 80% of all farm output. "This presents a real challenge, understanding a way of life you have no connection to."
@Bayer
#AgVocacy
Astro Teller, Captain of Moonshots at X, opens
#WorldAgriTech
by encouraging laughable ideas that lead to incredible realities, like driver-less cars: "If you propose thousands of really laughable things, eventually you get to the few that really change the world"
Mick Porter with
@FCSAmerica
says good committed lenders will work with those who can provide complete cash flow projection, have marketing plan with price/date targets, & have a back up plan if losses occur/continue
#FFBootcamp18
To transition the farm, Iowa farmer
@BenRiensche
says, “the first thing to do is raise great kids.”
The second is to require they leave the farm for five years, and the third is to have a path to partnership.
#FFS24
“People who come to work on farms and ranchers are not taking American jobs. They’re not the ones putting the burden on our criminal justice system or welfare system.”
@SecretarySonny
at
@USDA
Outlook Forum on farm labor.
#immigration
You can't make bourbon without corn. Meet some of the folks who grow the corn that makes the whiskey and see how the process unfolds in the heart of Kentucky
#bourbon
#corn
#plant18
Some heavy hitters are coming to the 2019 Farm Futures Business Summit: Dave Kohl, Kevin Van Trump, Bryce Knorr & Matt Bennett, to name a few - see you there!
#FFsummit19
@KevinVanTrump
@chief321
𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒 𝐀𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: Corn plantings could dip nearly 2% to 92.8 million acres. Farmers expect to plant 85.0 million acres of soybeans, up 1.6%.
#oatt
#Plant24
🌱
All the details, including wheat sowings and price implications:
.
@ZippyDuvall
celebrated stepped-up basis wins, says ag needs to apply same energy to WOTUS. "It's critical that this admin understands that we should not need a team of lawyers and consultants just to farm our land"
#AFBF22
K-State ag economist Barry Flinchbaugh says the biggest worry now is the fed. deficit @$23 trillion; in 10 years it will be 92% of budget. "This is serious and unfortunately neither political party... are putting it front and center as an issue."
#FarmFuturesSummit
#Oat
production is virtually unchanged and
#barley
production is up 8 million bushels.
#Sorghum
production is raised based on the higher area reported in the Acreage report.
University of Illinois ag economist
@ScottIrwinUI
maps out three distinct grain price eras here at the final UI farm economics summit in Champaign, IL - note that the jump in average corn prices went up around 90% from past era
See Max Armstrong each day of
#FPVX
, which includes multiple field demos, a Ride n Drive session, education sessions and a farmer panel to help recap the day. Block Sept. 15-17 on your calendar and register today.
If you see what appears to be a glorified card table roaming around a corn field this summer, have no fear. It's actually an
#autonomous
#robot
, scouting fields for weeds and insects. Here's what the future looks like:
@Solinftec_NA
@GROWMARK
#plant22
Why Trump and his trade hawks are so worried about China's plan to rule the world. Like him or not he's the only president in two decades who has had the guts to talk tough, the only language the Chinese understand
#tariffs
#trade
#agexports
#China
.
@FarmBureau
presented Terry Gilbert, Kentucky, with their Founder's Award, first time every to a woman. Gilbert: "Ladies, your involvement in Farm Bureau only makes this organization stronger and better."
#AFBF22
@LandOLakesInc
CEO Beth Ford on the urban-rural divide: “30% of farmers don’t have access to broadband. They are taking their children to McDonald's to sit in the parking lot to get broadband access so they can do their homework.”
#ForbesAgTech
#broadband
What does soil health have to do with ag tech? Today at
#worldAgriTech
a panel discussion is focusing on tech that can help
#farmers
build carbon in soil, monitoring & regenerative ag
#agtech
The U.S. and China agreed on the outlines of a partial trade accord Friday that President Donald Trump said he and China’s Xi Jinping could sign as soon as next month.
#trade
#china
#tradedeal
A packed Farm Futures Summit intently listens to Howard Buffett’s presentation, “Farming in a War Zone: Understanding the unique challenges Ukrainian farmers face as Russia wages war in one of the world’s top ag-producing countries.”
@maxarmstrong
#FFSummit23
Do you see a pattern in the table below? Does the table below suggest that Dec 31 are your best marketing opportunities for the crops that is already in the bin?
@DuaneLowry
#marketing
#market
Karen Schuett, cofounder of Livestock Water Recycling, accepts the $200,000 check for winning the
#THRIVEAgriFood
prize LWR tech converts manure to liquid fertilizer, solid fertilizer, and potable water - 24/7, so, no more lagoons
#ForbesAgTech
What are young farmers thinking? Farm Progress editorial director Willie Vogt (l) emcees our NewGen panel discussion with Maria Cox, Brett Heineman & Scott Henry, session sponsored by Pioneer
#FFSummit19
For the first time in 34 years someone other than Pearse Lyons opens the Alltech symposium. All eyes on new
@Alltech
president Mark Lyons, the late Dr. Lyons' son, as he offered lessons from his father: "These 2 days are an investment in your ability...to change the world"
#ONE18
A Manhattan scion is America's 31st-largest landowner
Stefan Soloviev owns 325,000 acres and a 122-mile rail line, and is self-taught expert on dry-land agriculture
#farm
#agriuclture
#land
Breaking news: Kevin Van Trump to appear at the 2019 Farm Futures Business Summit. Join us Jan. 24-25 for two days of business, management and outlook seminars featuring some of the brightest minds in agriculture. Join us!
#FFSummit19
Great discussion on the latest happenings in the ethanol market, with Iowa grower Kelly Nieuwenhuis, moderator Willie Vogt,
@ethanolRFA
CEO Geoff Cooper, &
@GrowthEnergy
SVP Mike Lorenz - thanks
@nationalcorn
! It's opening day @ Farm Futures Business Summit
#ffsummit21
"Mister President, I get choked up every time you talk about withdrawing from
#NAFTA
" said USDA
@SecretarySonny
Perdue at the opening session of Commodity Classic
@ComClassic
Ryan Harris with Farmers Mutual Hail Insurance lays out benefits of having precision data in managing crop insurance, at today’s Ag Finance Boot Camp
#FFsummit19
@FMHins