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With the approach of spring weather, farmers are busy preparing for planting season. But many are looking even further ahead, thinking about and placing orders for new planters for 2023.
I rolled over and opened one eye. According to the bright red digits on the old clock radio on the nightstand next to my bed, it was quarter to 4. Barely two hours had passed since the last time I’d looked at the same clock and collapsed on the bed.
Overall ag tractor sales in the U.S. and Canada continued rising into January 2022, while combine harvesters slowed for the month according to the latest data from the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM).
Despite logistical challenges, U.S. exports of alfalfa hay set a new record high in 2021 at 2.86 million metric tons (MT), according to latest data from the USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service.
Native grasslands were once plentiful across what is now the U.S., including tens of millions of acres across eastern U.S. landscapes. The plow, exclusion of fire leading to forest succession and year-round, unmanaged grazing led to their gradual disappearance over the past two centuries.
It’s hard to believe, but with spring just weeks away, planning for the year ahead is well underway. Undoubtedly, high prices will mean corn, soybeans, wheat and cotton will compete for acreage – and irrigation water.
The smell of sagebrush on a rare rainy afternoon as I ride horseback through the dry pasture. The strain of my shoulders as I pick lava rock from the 40-acre field. The clank of the tractor bucket as I toss that rock in.
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