Farm Futures Summit returns with in-person meetings Join us live for management tips, market outlook and trade insights at the all-new Farm Futures Business Summit.
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Jun 15, 2021 to Jun 17, 2021
Is it time to meet old friends, learn a few new things, and sharpen up your farm management skillset? You bet it is, and we’re here to help. After long months of isolation the 2021 Farm Futures Business Summit is set to go live June 16-17 at the Coralville Marriott Hotel and Conference Center just outside Iowa City. This year’s agenda is packed with risk management, best practices, market outlook sessions, and much, much more. What’s in store?
scyther5/Thinkstock China to reduce corn, soymeal volumes in livestock rations. (Comments are updated by 7:30 a.m. Central Time.)
Grains continue higher on spring weather concerns as markets digest potential for new global grain flows
Corn up 1-4 cents
Wheat up 3-8 cents
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Feedback from the Field analysis is live on our site! In the first installment of the 2021 series, farmers across the country struggle to get a stable start to planting season amid depleted soil moisture levels and unseasonably cold temperatures.
Want to get in on the action?! Click here to take our ongoing farmer survey on crop progress at any point in the 2021 grain season. Our Google Map, updated daily, provides all past responses for farm readers. We can’t wait to hear from you!
April 6, 2021
Iowa currently finds itself in a “Goldilocks climate,” with just the right measure and timing of humidity, rainfall and heat that help make the state a national leader in corn and soybean production. However, new research shows that climate change threatens to upset this balance.
Small shifts in rainfall and temperature can have considerable impacts on crops and farmer livelihoods. To better understand how these shifts could impact farmers, Environmental Defense Fund partnered with K·Coe Isom, an agricultural accounting and business advisory firm, to produce an in-depth report that quantifies the potential localized economic impacts from these shifts that Iowa corn and soy farmers could face as soon as the next 10 to 20 years.
Tyler Harris
TARGETED ADOPTION: For cover crops, the adoption curve is usually different than for conservation tillage. Many farmers in the study started with a few acres of cover crops before gradually expanding to other areas of their farm. Groups partner with farmers to study costs, revenue and adoption of conservation tillage and cover crops.
Since 2015, the Soil Health Partnership, a part of the National Corn Growers Association, has worked with farmers to evaluate the benefits of a number of soil health management practices through on-farm research throughout the Midwest. In 2020, SHP partnered with the Environmental Defense Fund and the accounting firm K-Coe Isom, as well as seven participating farmers in five Midwestern states, to evaluate the impact of different conservation practices on a farm’s bottom line.