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Kansas | centralmnagnus, this is a reply to one of your later posts. You don't sound heartless, you just presume you have to tell us what's best like we're dumb. We abandoned milo as a crop 10 years ago because it had become widely inconsistent and unprofitable My dad grew milo successfully from the 1970s until about 2013 which was like my 3rd year full time farming. I'm sure it's easy to sit at a keyboard and say milo should be grown in Kansas. Corn and beans are more consistent even here. And yes we still grow about 40 percent wheat. We grow 5 different hay crops and have cow calf pairs. My point is that most aren't as stupid as you think they are. Most are out trying new things and trying different angles. Hay crops, hemp, canola, sunflowers, oats, cotton to the south. It's all been tried, none of it was the answer. Guys are selling grass fed beef, free range chicken, and pasture raised pork but have to do it on the side as the demand nor the profit is there to support it. Even the side gig's like selling seed, dirt work, or even fence building seem hard pressed to get the work or margin to continue. Things are bad because it costs too much to operate no matter what you do. Cash rent doesn't even factor here, not very common at all.
Edited by shear pin 12/23/2024 23:13
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Does anyone have statistics on how many farmers actually want disaster payments and subsidies?
