Farmers Crushed by Input Costs & Weather

“Hi everyone, I’m currently working on an agricultural research project to better understand how farmers and growers make fertilizer purchasing decisions. If you use fertilizer on your farm or garden, I’d really appreciate it if you could take 3 minutes to complete this anonymous survey. I’m simply trying to learn more about the challenges people face when comparing products and making purchasing decisions. Thank you for your time, and I’d also love to hear any thoughts or experiences you have in”

“When applying for anything through your local FSA or NRCS office, they normally ask for a laundry list of paperwork and reports; historical yields, field maps, tax records, conservation plans, and more. If you are anything like our farm, that information is either piled up on a desk or buried in files on your phone. Spider Ag organizes your farm records on a field-by-field basis. Simply border each field on the map, capture the right documents, keep notes, photos, records, and task lists tied to”

“I grew up on a farm, but I moved to the city for university and have been living there since. Now we are looking to buy land and move closer to nature. For the last year while looking I kept circling one question: as the climate shifts, where will land still be good for farming, for homesteading, for putting down roots? But there was no way to easily see it, place by place. I mean, the science and the data exist, it's just scattered across a dozen datasets. So I stiched it together. The Farm”

“https://preview.redd.it/5ozd82q6jubh1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6509238d51373a80bf59ed5b1b929859280d711b Here’s an updated photo with some growth”

“I run a hay price tracking newsletter, so I spend a lot of time on the phone with growers, brokers, cattle ops, and dairy nutritionists. Yesterday a rancher in Idaho I've been talking with for a bit sent me an unprompted read on the market. Posting it here because it lines up with almost everything else I've been hearing, and none of it shows up in the official numbers. Here's what he said, paraphrased: "Parts of Idaho got their water turned off. Hay growers here are way behind”

“I'm finally to the point where I'm ready to start more seriously shopping for a tractor for my property and was hoping to get feedback and suggestions. I copied a recent format I saw another person post when looking for recommendations as it worked well (thanks!). Apologies for such a long post, but tried to include everything I saw people asking for in comments on other posts. I know first and foremost the dealer is one of the most important pieces, and I've got a handful of options”

“Every time oil prices spike, food prices follow. That link is not a coincidence. It is a design flaw baked into our agricultural system over the past 60 years. The fertilizer that grows roughly half the world's food is made from natural gas, which means energy shocks and food shocks are the same shock, just with a delay. I wrote about how we got here and what a realistic path out looks like here . Sustainability in agriculture is not just a feel-good idea. It is a structural necessity. What”

“Every time cover crops come up in this sub it's the same rotation. No-till Facebook groups. Your extension office. Maybe a mention of EQIP if someone's feeling ambitious. And then everyone talks about seed costs and the thread dies. Nobody ever mentions Farmers for Soil Health and I don't know why, because it's the most accessible entry point for a small operation that wants to try cover crops without betting the farm on it. Here's what it actually is. It's a cost-share p”