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Jun 15, 2021 to Jun 17, 2021
Mike Wilson, Executive Editor – Farm Futures joins Mike Pearson to talk planting. Mike shares his conversations with farmers over the last week and their concerns with dryness and inflation. Mike also shares that the Farm Futures Summit and Ag Finance Boot camp is coming in June and will be in person as well as virtual components available. You can register online to for one or both events.
Mike dives into the livestock market with Dennis Smith, Archer Financial Services. Dennis talks more about grain market, weather and soybeans.
Chad Colby learns about new technology for bees that help monitor the hives. Gabriel Giesick, Director of Sales & Marketing, UBEES, shares how you can monitor 3-4 different aspects of the hives to check on the temperature and vitality. This information allows the farmers the ability to see inside their hives.
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Mar 5, 2021 10:17 AM
The Commodity Classic trade show in partnership with the National Association of Farm Broadcasting has produced a program called “Mental Health on the Farm.”
Mental health practitioner Ted Matthews says stress is normal for farmers.
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Every farmer has stress. It’s just a matter of how they handle it. And, how much can you handle, well, you don’t want to find out at the end how much you can handle, you want to you want to accept the fact that it’s stressful and start looking at what can I do to lower that stress right away. Because the more it builds, the higher the potential for it goes too far and. And of course, sometimes that ends up in suicide and that’s the last place we want it to go.”