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
Applying Education to Execution in Today’s Market ion in Today’s
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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