Sunlight farmer...without it we all die. Father of 2. Husband to a school counselor. Watched dads farm sale in ‘04 just to dumb to stay away. BTO or bust
@OkieStotts lol 😂
Wasn’t pointed directly at you. I’m in the same boat. There’s a couple kids in the county that just graduated college bought/built really nice homes and are driving around and really shiny paint. They’re farming wheat paying 13bu rent
Madam Secretary, fertilizer prices are still high for farmers. When compared to corn prices:
Urea - 2nd highest value ever
UAN - 2nd highest value ever
NH3 - 2nd highest value ever
DAP - 2nd highest value ever
There are simple short and long term fixes. Just takes action.
Nitrogen
Short-term - remove DEF requirements (puts nitrogen back to the farmer)
Long-term - back domestic production
Phosphate
Short-term - repeal counter vailing duties
Long-term - invest in countries with phosphate rock reserves and get long term supply agreements
Potash
Short-term - quit fighting Canada
Long-term - quit fighting Canada
@JerodMcDaniel Agree but (there’s always a but) will the market allow a complete rebuild? Been here before and as soon as the market smells rebuild it collapses. “World market” it doesn’t care about American feelings.
@JLinvilleFert Is there force majeure on the horizon…..last time Texas froze like this CF and Koch created their own shortage while making a pile of money on natural gas.
@JerodMcDaniel It’s a world market. The world doesn’t care about our family farms. I’m cautiously optimistic. We are told we have a free market economy but I don’t think that’s the truth.
@billcrowder13 Economic- allocation of scarce resources. World cotton is not scarce. Can only be made right by supply or demand, NOT GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES. Find something else to do with the cotton acres. The world does not need them. Farmers need to pivot to something else.
Is being surrounded by stupid amounts of oil money people a blessing or a curse?
(paying rent on all the land in this area) I just want to farm, but it feels like the vultures are circling, waiting for me to fail.
I’m not a fan🤷♂️