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Imagine making your crop budget, then getting handed another $100-per-acre bill.
That’s approximately what Arkansas corn farmers are facing from higher fuel and fertilizer costs.
Nearly $100 an acre.
Not because they planted more.
Not because they bought another tractor.
Because the cost of doing the SAME JOB went through the roof.
And we’re supposed to believe another record yield automatically fixes everything?
Bushels matter. But dollars left over matter more. That’s where we can help. Have you visited our website?
USDA projected 6.35 BILLION bushels of feed and residual use.
Then September’s report showed a whole lot more corn sitting around than expected.
Now analysts are questioning the feed numbers.
The cattle herd is at a 75-year low. The math deserves a second look
Before you combine away the evidence… make the phone call.
Lodged corn. Mold. Harvest delays. Rain-damaged beans.
If you think you’ve got an insurable loss, you may have only 72 hours after discovering damage to report it.
Take the pictures. Call the agent. THEN worry about getting the combine rolling.
That’s a lousy technicality to learn about after the field is empty.
You can shut the tractor off. You can’t shut the freight bill off.
Record diesel prices aren’t just hitting farmers at the farm tank.
Railroads are raising fuel surcharges to move grain—and those costs can work backward into what the elevator can pay.
So yes, you may be paying for $6 diesel twice: once in your combine and again in your basis.
That’s one expensive gallon
USDA says we’ve got too much corn. Fine. Let’s find it a customer.
Ethanol stocks just dropped more than 800,000 barrels in ONE WEEK.
Exports: +16%.
Exports vs. last year: +61%.
That’s the answer to big crops: don’t apologize for growing them. Build markets big enough to use them. 🌽⛽️
Apparently we’re not entirely sure how much corn we had BEFORE we started harvesting more corn.
Tomorrow USDA tells us what was actually sitting in bins on Sept. 1.
Trade guesses for corn range from 1.86 to 2.005 BILLION bushels.
That’s a 145-million-bushel shrug.
Tomorrow we find out who’s bad at counting.
Way to go Louisiana!
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$6 diesel just showed up for harvest.
A year ago, the national average was about $3.70.
That’s not doom and gloom. That’s a number that belongs in the math.
We spend a lot of time talking yield and commodity prices. But bushels don’t pay the bills — margin does.
Know your numbers. Make every acre earn its keep. 🌽
Okay. NOW China is buying beans.
Roughly ONE MILLION metric tons of U.S. soybeans purchased this week.
We’ve spent months listening to politicians talk about agricultural trade.
Farmers don’t need promises. We need purchase orders. Keep ’em coming. 🇺🇸🌱
If you’re buying 2027 fertilizer off one quote, get another quote.
Some nitrogen prices are easing. Other nutrients are jumping double digits depending on product and region.
There isn’t one fertilizer market right now—and a phone call might have a better ROI than anything else you do today.
What are you being quoted locally for NH₃ / 28 / potash? Drop it below.
Another new corn rootworm trait is coming in 2027. 🌽
Good. We need new tools.
But the most expensive trait package still isn’t automatically the right hybrid for your acre.
Know your pressure. Know your rotation. Know what you’re paying for. 🤑
Want to dig into the new DuraStack technology? Here’s a good rundown from Farm Progress 👇
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China bought another 202,000 metric tons of U.S. beans yesterday.
Not a rumor. Not an ‘unknown destination.’ China.
That's several confirmed purchases in a little over a week.
Now the question farmers actually care about: how many purchases does it take before the market starts caring too? 🤔📈
USDA is bringing AI and satellites into crop estimates because farmers stopped trusting the numbers. (Novel, I know…)
That might be the most interesting announcement out of #FPS26 yet.
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If you could corner every seed company at Farm Progress today and make them answer ONE question honestly, what would you ask?
#FPS26 #SeedtheRevolution
Anyone else watch Clarkson’s Farm?
There’s something strangely therapeutic about watching someone else’s farm chaos after spending all day dealing with your own. 😂
Please tell me it’s not just me.
A timeline of one man's cunning inheritance tax scheme.
2008: Buy a thousand acres in Oxfordshire. Tell The Times that dodging inheritance tax is the critical thing. Scheme live.
2009 to 2018: Do absolutely nothing. A villager farms it on contract. Flawless.
2019: The villager retires. Rather than hire another one, decide to farm a thousand acres yourself, having never grown anything.
Also 2019: Invite a film crew.
2020: Rain for nine weeks. Profit on a thousand acres: £144.
2021: Broadcast the £144 to the largest streaming platform on earth, thereby informing the entire planet that farmland makes nothing.
2021: Open a farm shop. Acquire a queue down a lane and the undivided attention of West Oxfordshire District Council.
2022: Restaurant refused. Enforcement notice. Six weeks to take a barn apart.
2023: Lose the appeal. Lose it again.
May 2024: Accidentally get English planning law rewritten. Lawyers name it Clarkson's Clause.
August 2024: Open a pub selling only British food. Sell your own sausage at 74p against 18p imported, and eat the difference on every plate.
October 2024: The Chancellor caps agricultural property relief at a million. Scheme dead.
November 2024: Stand on a platform in Westminster in front of thirteen thousand farmers, drawing maximum national attention to the exact tax break you were supposedly hiding behind.
July 2025: Go down with TB. First calf ever born on the farm destroyed, pregnant with twins. Gate padlocked.
23 December 2025: Government retreats. The threshold goes from one million to two and a half. Five million for a couple.
March 2026: Farm declared clear.
July 2026: Drive four hundred miles to Scotland and buy more cows.
Eighteen years.
Planning law changed. Agricultural degree applications climbing. Cited in the Commons more times than most ministers manage. Half the estates that were going to be caught by the tax are no longer caught by it.
He was accused of buying a farm to dodge inheritance tax, and then spent eighteen months getting the relief raised for everybody else's.
Worst tax dodger in British history.
Best thing to happen to British farming in fifty years.
$5.40 corn feels a whole lot different than the conversations we were having six months ago. The question now isn’t whether the rally feels good. It’s whether you have a plan for it.
Have you sold any ’26 corn into this rally — YES / NOT YET?
Well said! Prayers for a safe harvest to everyone.
Warning to all those around farmers during this harvest:
- We often forget what day it is as the list of things to do in our head often takes precedent over normal thinking
- We might be crabby or overly giddy depending on how the crop is yielding that day
- If a combine suddenly stops in the field we may stare at it begrudgingly while swearing under our breath till it moves again
- You can tell how our day is going by how oily and dirty our clothes are
- All types of grain may randomly fall out of our pockets and pant cuffs as we walk by
- The “harvest hat” may get hard to look at by the end but no worries, it will share the same fate as the last few bushels of grain through the combine!
And finally we all know that some days will be held together by #9 wire and binder twine so please bear with us as we may smile uncontrollably in those fleeting moments when it’s all going smoothly…
#HappyHarvest
#Harvest26
Financial Friday
Crop Tour has everyone talking about bushels.
Too high. Too low. What’s actually out there. What the final number will be.
But here's the number that ultimately matters on your farm:
Margin.
A bigger yield doesn't automatically mean a bigger profit.
If you spent another $80/acre chasing 15 more bushels, did those bushels actually make you money?
Yield gets the headlines.
Margin pays the bills.
When you look back at 2026, which number will tell you whether you had a successful crop?
#FinancialFriday #FarmFinance #AgTwitter #SeedTheRevolution
Every August, we measure.
Kernel counts.
Ear populations.
Pod counts.
Yield estimates.
Then we argue about who’s right.
Here’s the problem:
The crop doesn’t read the estimates.
There’s still weather ahead.
Still disease pressure.
Still grain to fill.
Still beans deciding what they’re going to be.
Crop Tour is walking fields this week.
Combines will grade the test.
What are YOU seeing in your fields?