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In a recent report, “Land Values 2014: At the Tipping Point,” Rabobank warns farmland may be heading for an asset bubble. Only two states, Arizona and West Virginia, have experienced zero or negative change in land values from 2005 to 2013, while farmland values in the Corn Belt have experienced sharp increases.
AGCO has launched a new iPad app that showcases the company’s lineup of application equipment, offering an interactive, three-dimensional “walk-around” of the machines, downloadable product information, video content and much more.
If a baler were a cow, we could install a cannula into the baler’s belly and watch the internal action. We could install cameras in the throat, the rumen and the nether parts – or the correlating baler parts, such as at the pick-up teeth, the knotter, the cutter, the plunger, and all the way out to the loader and truck.
The USDA announced continued progress in implementing provisions of the 2014 Farm Bill that will strengthen and expand insurance coverage options for farmers and ranchers.
The White House Rural Council has a plan to create a $10 billion investment fund for rural America. Pension funds and large investors who contribute to it will be financing agricultural projects such as wastewater systems, energy projects and rural America’s infrastructure development according to Alexandra Stevenson of The New York Times.
“Last time I was here, big hotels, big beds, big trucks, everything was big,” says Lukas Wolters, the senior manager of breeding grasses at DSV (Deutsche Saatveredelung) AG. “You have big cars still, but the oversized impression I had of the United States has adapted. I like it.”
Have you taken a good look at your alfalfa stands lately? They might be getting a little thin.
Most alfalfa fields start to lose stand and production ability after cutting hay for several years.
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