RAIN RAIN GO AWAY

This just in!! Harvesting silage much?

Corn Belt

"It's been 28 degrees for about an hour in north-central Iowa. In the low-lying areas, it has a coating of frost. I would call it a killing frost there," says Agriculture.com Marketing Talk senior contributor BA Deere. "My corn is black layered, beans have all turned and dropping leaves here and there, so this frost has to ding 'em a little. There are green soybeans in the area. I hear of corn in the Dakotas that hasn't dented yet. This cold snap has to grawlix the yield overall a little."

The cold is ending crop growth in the region, although damage to soybeans is occurring in well less than 10% of the Corn Belt.

Who would think with the recent weather throughout the country this once again would occure. Sweet corn prices last year were 40 dollars cwt, now this year will the prices drop considerately or will they continue to rise as the worlds population elevates. "American agricultural exports are expected to increase 23 percent this year to $101 billion, a record. The world's grain stockpiles have fallen to the lowest levels in decades."- New York Times.

Over 55% of Iowa corn goes to forgein markets, with the weather the farmers are facing now its time to saddle up and chrage the mountain. Thanks for reading today :)

One of my many paper I have been writing and are in progress :)

Ag is Everything

            It real early in the morning, say around 5 o’clock, farmers all over the world get up and begin there day supplying the world with products and services we need to live.  Not only is it 5 o’clock but its also snowing, or its going to be another hot day, possibly chances of severe storms, dose that stop them? No way! As the world continues to grow, so dose the supply and demand needed to feed human civilization and livestock. Those producers don’t hit the snooze button for 10 more minutes, they can’t have sick day and no matter what the weather is like, they still get up and go to work because they know how important they are to the lives of millions.

            Driving down the road in a little small town, where I live, looking out the window I notice a field of green tall stalks of corn. It is summer time and I love to watch the things growing that were planted back in the spring. To think that out in that field is the livelihood of many, and all the products that will comes from those acres of hard work and tillage. But Mother Nature has no mercy on these fragile crops and washes away the entire field and the hope of a good harvest, that person that planted that food, kept checking to make sure there was enough moisture and nutrients see’s their hard work washing away before their eyes but yet, you see them out there looking forward and finding a way to make the most out of disatereous conditions.

            School has started, and FFA actives already have begun, SAE trips, State Fair work days and let alone if you have a 4-H project you are pretty tired but also extremely pumped for this year in FFA. August, very first FFA meeting, friends and faces you missed over summer sit across from you from a long table that you would sit at home eating supper with your family. All talking about things that interest you and the hopes and goals you have this year in the FFA Chapter. Agriculture is one of our favorite words, and you could recite the creed frontwards, backwards, side to side and upside down if you really wanted to, because you know that is a important part of being an active FFA member.

Agriculture is a dangerous occupation, which most people don’t know, between heavy machinery, working with thousands of chemicals and not well-tempered livestock. Society dose not realize how dangerous it is to be a producer. Many farmers, ranchers and operation workers want to get everything they can from whatever they are producing.