CORN MAY 649.5-14
BEANS MAY 1346-20.5
LCAT APR 124.825-0.35
LHOG APR 85.05-0.975
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Monday, March 19, 2012
This goes for everyone!
@brett_vogel send me some blog info, time to get back in the saddle! -- Pete Burmeister (@newscoffeeshop)
Friday, March 16, 2012
Thursday, March 15, 2012
ISU GAME UPDATE FROM TWITTER
Of course Iowa State is trending in the US. #Cyclones up 38-23 4:16 1st Half #big12 http://t.co/puud7HfS -- Iowa State Athletics (@ISUCy)
South America Report
at Sorriso Mato Grosso we proced to end harvest with 12%losses. my projections continues at 64 MMT. huge losses in #SA -- João Carlos Kopp (@BrazilianGrain)
Soybean Trade
Could be another strong day of gains for #soybeans. Export sales of nearly 1.4 MMT for combined marketing years top expectations. #pfnews -- Meghan Pedersen (@MeghanPedersen)
Overnight Grains
Strong Performance By #Grains Overnight #constantcontact #USDA http://t.co/bURU3WPj -- Paul Georgy (@allendale_Paul)
From Adam White Pioneer Seed
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Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Weather Fact
Warm in Mid-March is not a 1st in Iowa but only Spring 1946 escaped a hard freeze after March 15th. -- Elwynn Taylor (@ElwynnTaylor)
Monday, March 12, 2012
From Kevin Keegan- FSA, Independence, IA
Hi Pete. Wondering if you would be willing to post a couple of important deadlines on your blog for me?
June 1, 2012. Deadline to sign up for 2012 DCP or ACRE program. Don’t wait! Do it today before you go to the field.
June 1, 2012. Deadline to sign up for 2010 disaster assistance (SURE program). Remember you needed a 10% production loss to qualify. If in doubt, check with us!
June 30, 2012. Deadline to certify your 2012 planted acreage.
Thanks Pete!
Our Reply: Any time Kevin!
June 1, 2012. Deadline to sign up for 2012 DCP or ACRE program. Don’t wait! Do it today before you go to the field.
June 1, 2012. Deadline to sign up for 2010 disaster assistance (SURE program). Remember you needed a 10% production loss to qualify. If in doubt, check with us!
June 30, 2012. Deadline to certify your 2012 planted acreage.
Thanks Pete!
Our Reply: Any time Kevin!
Depreciating Farm Drainage Tile
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Our Reply: Good article about depreciating tile on purchases, new tile, and rented farms by Neil Harl.
Our Reply: Good article about depreciating tile on purchases, new tile, and rented farms by Neil Harl.
Friday, March 9, 2012
Opening Calls- Grains
Grains not waiting for USDA reports. Bullish breakout by beans overnight pulling corn and wheat higher despite stronger USDX. Energies mixed -- Darin Newsom (@DarinNewsom)
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Donkey Breeder
 Evan M. Tate (@T8CattleCo)3/7/12 9:27 PM First PB Charolais triplets then this..... What a spring so far!!@bneale0714 @LaurenMSea @newscoffeeshop @CariRincker pic.twitter.com/BHe16aT6 |
Our Reply: friend of mine in Kentucky, call or better yet tweet Evan for all your donkey needs! Follow pic.twitter link above for picture.
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
New Blog Format
Beginning within the next month I hope to be unavailing the new and improved blog format of News from the Coffee Shop. This format will include the option for our readers to explore a larger scope of news in Eastern Iowa along with their local county information. It is my hope that the blog will remain interactive for our readers to quickly share what they're seeing in the field, allow agribusiness firms to showcase their services, and be a quick source of enjoyment for our readers on a regular basis.
This will be a work in progress as we move through the transition and expand the footprint of News from the Coffee Shop. I would welcome any ideas and recommendations about what you'd like to see going forward.
Give me a call anytime 319-327-0806
Pete
Denison Darkens with an Era
By John Harrington, DTN Livestock Analyst
When Tyson Foods announced this week plans to close its slaughter-only plant in Denison, Iowa, virtually no one who had been paying attention to beef industry trends over the last few years was very surprised.
In short, the news fell like an old worn-out shoe long anticipated to drop.
Think of the Denison facility as an aging Tyrannosaurus with a bad cough. Once upon a time, these carnivorous dinosaurs ruled the country, devouring thousands of cattle each day and spitting out whole carcasses to be shipped to other locations for fabrication.
But when IBP perfected the concept of boxed beef in the 1960s, the temperature in their jungle surroundings began to slowly chill. The new business model put a great premium on integration and efficiency. Any production monster failing to somehow evolve in the direction of extended fabrication was pretty much doomed for extinction.
Killing approximately 2,200 steers and heifers per day, Denison has long served as a "feeder" plant for the large processing center in Dakota City. Though never the perfect design in efficiency (i.e., kill/fab/portion-control under one roof), I suppose Denison "worked" for an extended period of time because fed cattle supplies remained large enough to justify a more sprawling network of procurement.
In February of 2006, when Tyson announced that it was pulling the plug on both the kill-only at West Point, Neb., and the fab-only plant in nearby Norfolk, only zealots at the local Chamber of Commercial failed to perceive the forces in play. And when the same management team closed the out-of-position plant in Emporia, Kan., several years later, the discouraging handwriting for Denison was pretty much on the wall.
We all know that small towns these days are fighting for their economic lives, and I'm saddened that the cold broom of corporate efficacy will soon sweep so harshly through the streets of Denison and northwest Iowa.
Yet given the glaring problem of excess slaughter capacity vis-a-vis a cattle herd essentially in decline since 1996, I almost can't believe that the bad news has been postponed this long.
Monday, March 5, 2012
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Friday, March 2, 2012
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Crop Insurance Prices
These guarantee good profits...RT @CornOptionFlow The insurance rate for corn is 568 vs 601 LY and in soybeans its set at 1254 vs 1349 LY - -- Agrivisor Analysts (@Agrivisor)
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Hope bright for U.S. corn, soybean exports
Traders see the lack of South America exportable surplus corn as a factor which could help boost US exports and tighten old crop ending stocks by 50-75 million bushels as a bullish force for old crop contracts, the CME Group said in its Wednesday morning report.
Traders told the CME there was talk China booked near 4-5 cargoes of US soybeans for April shipment was seen as a supportive force. Brazil is normally active exporter for April but traders indicated that the long line to load cargoes in Brazil plus uncertainty of supply has limited offers.
As seen on marketwatchonline.com
Traders told the CME there was talk China booked near 4-5 cargoes of US soybeans for April shipment was seen as a supportive force. Brazil is normally active exporter for April but traders indicated that the long line to load cargoes in Brazil plus uncertainty of supply has limited offers.
As seen on marketwatchonline.com
Herbicide resistance meeting at Heartland Acres
Sign up now to attend the free Iowa State Extension herbicide resistance meeting on March 13th at Hearland Acres in Independence. Register and get more details here: http://www.aep.iastate.edu/weeds/
Monday, February 27, 2012
Cattle Market
#Calf & #feeder prices to new records. #Beef carcass & 400-500# feeders bounce around $2. Light calves head toward $3. http://t.co/uBsrd5yJ -- Bill Northey (@BNorthey)
Weather Update
Corn Belt March outlook is WARM, & East of I-35 MOIST, we shall see. -- Elwynn Taylor (@ElwynnTaylor)
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