What's the margin per acre though, as a 5 or 10 year average.
Their are alot of small holdings in usa and a sh!t load of farmwork done with horses , i fact an unbelievable amount of horses in American agg . It aint all big .Son is doing the USA harvest this year ,he has been over there since mid March in South Dakota getting things ready .Yesterday he moved to a different place to help them sow corn ,its only 100000 acres and they have 14000 to sow in 14 days .This chap also has another 100000 acres in Montana
Wonder who will be selling expensive corn & oil onto the world market now Ukraine is fecked, wouldn't be the USA would it?Son is doing the USA harvest this year ,he has been over there since mid March in South Dakota getting things ready .Yesterday he moved to a different place to help them sow corn ,its only 100000 acres and they have 14000 to sow in 14 days .This chap also has another 100000 acres in Montana
My father used to tell a tale about a person in our area who had been in canada and said that the fields there were so big that the combine only came around past the gate every thursdayFather in law used to tell a story about about a neighbour who had an American farmer come to visit, he was standing in the yard an basically saying is this all ya got…. “It takes me x many hours to take my truck to this corner of the ranch” then another however many hours to get to this place an so on…. The neighbour replied with oh I remember when I used to have a pick up like that too
"I had a combine like that once".My father used to tell a tale about a person in our area who had been in canada and said that the fields there were so big that the combine only came around past the gate every thursday
Son is doing the USA harvest this year ,he has been over there since mid March in South Dakota getting things ready .Yesterday he moved to a different place to help them sow corn ,its only 100000 acres and they have 14000 to sow in 14 days .This chap also has another 100000 acres in Montana
I believe their crop yields are far less than to the UK. Perhaps they need the acreage to make a living
Same as your weaning trailer really"I had a combine like that once".
Listen to the straight foward farming podcast , they also suffer with business buying to rewild , they also have thousands of us and the pay is reverent excep they have crop insurance ??
Depends. Dry land wheat would be a lot less than the UK, but then from Mid missouri down to Kentucky they will be double cropping beans after. Irrigated wheat in the desert will be huge yields.Lots of acres but what yield....
It’s like talking about turnover and profit.
The speed their combines go at says a lot about their low input low output vast average concept.
Exactly!
Can't remember what the crop was but my brother was complaining badly about 7 acres to the ton last yearI believe their crop yields are far less than to the UK. Perhaps they need the acreage to make a living
West Texas and the panhandle has big water issues. You get farmers moving east out of there over past Witchita and over to Paris Area south of the red river will be ploughing up pasture and “farm it up” for a few years to get the insurance yields then farm the insurance or flip it on to unsuspecting investors based on the insurance yields.Biggest issue with crop insurance is the premium goes up every time you claim it. Boss reckoned many in states like texas were virtually bankrupt due to sky high insurance premiums, having claimed it every year for many years.