Success StoryApplying Education to Execution in Today's Market



Applying Education to Execution in Today's Market

Author: Chuck Flowers

Planning Unit: Carlisle County CES

Major Program: Ag Marketing

Plan of Work: Crop and Livestock Production, Gardening and Horticulture, and Local Food Systems

Outcome: Intermediate Outcome

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Looking at the make-up of row crop in Carlisle County. The corn acres grown in the county are 33,612 acres coming from the 2012 agriculture census. Soybeans acres are around 33,167 acres with small grain coming in at 13,535 acres in Carlisle County. Crop receipts for 2012 to the economy were $34,054,000. Those acres will be in the same range each year depending on crop rotations.  So in order to help producers with some of the marketing decisions a meeting was held on Applying Education to Execution in Today’s Market.  Topics included the following: Enterprise budgets, Revenue Risk, Easy Price Risk Management Tools, and Price Potentials.  98% of producers in attendance agreed that the information presented will benefit their farming operation. All producers also agreed that grain farmers not making critical decisions in marketing could face some lean times with cash flow in the year to come again.   






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