Dutch Horse Meat

Bill Northey (@BNorthey) tweeted at 8:08 PM on Fri, Apr 12, 2013: 50,000 tons (!) of meat from Dutch companies being recalled under suspicion it may contain traces of #horsemeat. Scandal widens.

Corn Planting in Pike Co IL--- located on Mississippi near St. Louis

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Cattle Feeding Facts

Erik Loe (@ErikRLoe) tweeted at 8:27 AM on Thu, Apr 11, 2013: 0.1 unit change in DM conversion is worth $1.63/cwt gain, over half that's lost in few days of poor pen conditions, Concrete & scraping pay

$1.13 million for 80 acres

Pete Burmeister (@newscoffeeshop) tweeted at 11:22 AM on Thu, Apr 11, 2013: $1.13 million for 80 acres; farmland prices continue to climb: http://t.co/hTpC85815P via @globegazette

Congrats Adam & Vicki White

3 for 3! Another girl. Born 9:12a, 7lbs 8 ozs. No name picked yet.

Mom and baby doing well, Vicki is in recovery now.

The reason corn is up....

Knutson Farms (@KnutsonFarms) tweeted at 1:24 PM on Tue, Apr 09, 2013: RT @morrisonmkts: @KnutsonFarms rally has nothing to do w/ snow in the upper MW.. the 'commodity king' DG got short yesterday.simple as that

WINNING!... oh wait... WON!

There’s nothing like the sweet feeling of a hard fought victory! 

Harvard, Wichita State, Louisville…. just think, if you would have picked them, you could have won too!

Everyone does know that the buy in for this pool was $100 right?

-Rob

October Corn Under $5

Rowley, IA

Oct 31, 2013

$4.99

@C3Z

534'4

2'4

-0.36

NCAA Bracket Challange Top 10

Rank	Team Name	Score	Correct	Best Score	Best Correct	Champion
1	Rob Rudolphi	333	35	333	35	Louisville (162)
2	Kale Petersen	263	42	263	42	Miami (Fla.) (122)
3	Molly Holst	261	38	261	38	Louisville (137)
4	Stephen B	247	39	247	39	Louisville (132)
5	Cass Keninger	245	33	245	33	Michigan (163)
6	Mike Hosch	236	40	236	40	Louisville (152)
7	Tim Fitzgerald	233	34	233	34	Louisville (131)
8	Jon Blin	226	38	226	38	Louisville (148)
9	Rusty Donnelly	219	38	219	38	Georgetown (98)
10	John Holst	214	35	214	35	Louisville (137)

Bracket Challenge Championship

Rank	Team Name	Score	Correct	Best Score	Best Correct	Champion
1	Rob Rudolphi	301	34	333	35	Louisville (162)
2	Kale Petersen	263	42	263	42	Miami (Fla.) (122)
3	Cass Keninger	245	33	373	34	Michigan (163)

Reply: It appears the Coffee Shop Bracket Challenge Championship will come down to the final game tonight. With a Louisville win, Rob Rudolphi will be victorious and a Michigan victory means Cass Keninger wins is all! #Cards #GoBlue #whoyougot

Humor

How can you tell if someone is a vegan? Don't worry, they'll tell you. -- Ron Swanson (@Sir_Ron_Swanson)

Soil Temps

Moved frost to pull soil samples just south of 1-80 yesterday and very damp underneath if you are just doing 8 inch pulls. Never pass up H2O -- Bradford Forkner (@BradForkner)

Grilling Season Approaching

ORDER YOUR BEEF TODAY!

Spring Tractor Service Special

Farmland rental rates up

A survey of rural bankers in 10 Midwestern states finds then anticipating farmland cash rents to rise 9.3% in 2013. -- Farmland Network (@FarmlandNetwork)

Direct FSA payments cut to all farmers

@USDAFSA confirms to the @hagstromreport that direct payments to all crop farmers to be cut. http://t.co/jv3HHX9cj4 -- Jerry Hagstrom (@hagstromreport)

Spring Fever

Should have both corn planters completely field ready tomorrow or Thursday. NH3 bars are ready...now we wait -- Caleb Hamer (@HawkeyeHamer)

Slider

RT @michaelhirtzer Corn's two-day decline of 12.65 percent is largest slide on percentage basis on record going back to 1959, CME Group says -- Knutson Farms (@KnutsonFarms)

Blake Shelton planting a corn crop

Guess who just rolled the dice and put his corn in early.... This guy!!!! http://t.co/9nHdCXMZPP -- Blake Shelton (@blakeshelton)

Biggest 2 Day Corn Decline

Corn now heading for biggest two-session decline since July 1996 -- Michael Hirtzer (@michaelhirtzer)

Midwest Soil Temperature @ 4"

Corn Basis Fun Fact

Fun Fact: Last years 1.128 billion bushel ending stocks figure still didn't prevent a 1 basis in corn in Mid Sept. We have less now. -- Jason Britt (@jasonlbritt)

NW Iowa Corn Basis

Corn basis at the elevator in Sioux Center, IA went from .25 over last week to .50 over this week. -- Scott Varilek (@scottevarilek)

Leaderboard: Final Four

Rank	Team Name	Score	Correct	Best Score	Best Correct	Champion
1	Rob Rudolphi	285	33	333	35	Louisville (162)
2	Kale Petersen	263	42	263	42	Miami (Fla.) (122)
3	Molly Holst	213	36	261	38	Louisville (137)
4	Makenna Burmeister	206	24	206	24	Michigan St. (123)
5	Rusty Donnelly	203	37	219	38	Georgetown (98)
6	Stephen Burke	199	37	247	39	Louisville (132)
7	Adam White	189	37	205	38	Indiana (125)
8	Mike Hosch	188	38	236	40	Louisville (152)
9	Tim Fitzgerald	185	32	233	34	Louisville (131)
10	Calvin Vogel	183	34	199	35	Florida (131)
11	Cass keninger	181	32	373	34	Michigan (163)
12	Jon Blin	178	36	226	38	Louisville (148)

The Mayor will remain in office

"@CycloneMBB: The Mayor will remain in office, agrees to 10-year deal. #cyclones http://t.co/lqQbac3KZ7" @Joey_Mitch boom! -- Drew Showalter (@thedrewskiSLP)

Bracketology Basics, March Mayhem, Parody Pope

As I See It...

By Pete Burmeister on

News from the Coffee Shop

March 28, 2013 4:32 PM

I'm fascinated with the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship, always have been. Once you get your head around the fact that basketball is a fickle sport that is unable to define what is or is not a foul and refuses to use basic technology of video replay, it does make for great entertainment. It's one of the few sporting events that truly lives up to the hype given to it by the talking heads. Each year a unknown team rises above the perennial "blue bloods" of college basketball and pulls off a shocking upset. By now you've heard about the big wins this year from Harvard, LaSalle, and (the acronym school FGCU) Florida Golf Coast University. Though the Cinderella stories will likely end in the Sweet 16 games, it proves time and time again that the games get played for a reason.

While I'm on the subject of pulling off upsets and as proof that there is absolutely no skill involved in filling out bracket picks, I had my 3 year old daughter complete one on the iPad for the News from the Coffee Shop pool this year. By the way, she's in first place through the first weekend with all of her own picks. She also has Sparty winning it all. Like her old-man, she knows how to pick a winner! Click here to check out the complete standings.

One last thing... have you ever been in a pool with that guy that "is doing awesome in my other pool?" Yeah, me too. I hate that guy. Get a life, fill out one bracket and stick with it.

 

Speaking of March Madness, (or is it March Mayhem now... I'm confused CBS and All-State) I've been trying to buy a few cattle embryo's on these Internet sales throughout the month of March. I'm too cheap, so getting any purchased has been a challenge. For those of you who have been following along with these sales on Breeders' World, CW Cattle Sales, and Premier Online Sales, the auctions have been smokin' hot to say the least! I'm still looking, so if anyone out there has any high quality matings available, will guarantee all three embryos result in a 90 day pregnancies, and priced for less than there worth, I'm your guy.

...and for those of you have no idea what I'm rambling on about, try to keep up. Here's a manual.

Am I the only one who just doesn't get it? What's all the fuss about anyway? Is this a Disney movie? Does it really matter that Jorge Mario Bergoglio rode back from St. Peter's Square on the same bus with the same cardinals or that he stood on the same level as others during his coronation? Why were all those people standing in the square for hours upon hours in the rain waiting for white smoke to show up? And why did the white smoke need a new stove pipe? Why does the first Pope Francis have a roman numeral behind his screen name?  One thing is for sure, lots of questions, not a lot of answers! 

I figure the "powers to be" want the people to believe that these are examples of "Change" for the Catholic Church. Huh, wait a minute... seems like we've heard that campaign slogan before- Change. You surly aren't going to fall for that again are you? You want change? Get Dennis Rodman in that white cloak and ruby red slippers! After all, he is on a mission to save the world.

May Corn

May corn synthetic is at $6.78.  -$.57 for the day. Here's to hoping things cool off over the long weekend!