There’s a saying that big crops get bigger. According to USDA’s August Crop Production and World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates, the 2018 corn and soybean crops continue to grow.
For months, Jerry Gulke feared U.S. farmers would produce too much of everything. The Sept. 28, 2018, Quarterly Grain Stocks report showed that could have been the case.
After weeks of silence, USDA is catching up on their crop report releases. On Feb. 8, USDA released several reports: World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE), Grain Stocks and Crop Production.
With each tractor or combine pass, pig squeal and kernel placed in the soil, Brian Washburn is thankful for the life he’s created on the farm. It was a life he never expected to experience.
There could be serious consequences in the making that will affect the methodology of global grain flow or President Trump is far more insightful than most believe.