Cotton Marketing News:  Strong Prices Continue with Few Hiccups

Cotton Marketing News: Strong Prices Continue with Few Hiccups

Don Shurley, UGA Professor Emeritus of Cotton Economics   Most of the time, but not always, prices tend to trend down as we move closer to harvest.  It’s called seasonality, and for that reason, farmers like to price some portion of their crop prior to harvest. ...
Friday Feature:  Clarkson’s Farm Trailer

Friday Feature: Clarkson’s Farm Trailer

This week’s featured video does not follow the typical pattern of videos I highlight each week, but I thought it was worth introducing you to a very interesting and humorous TV series available through Amazon Prime. Recently Jeremy Clarkson, British television...
Preparing your Farm for Tropical Storm Fred

Preparing your Farm for Tropical Storm Fred

  The map above is most recent forecast track for Tropical Storm Fred from the National Hurricane Center (NHC).  Farmers and ranchers have limited time to prepare for what is coming on Sunday and Monday.  At this point the forecast track (2 PM 8/13/21) is not...
Weaning Decisions to Maximize Cow/Calf Revenues

Weaning Decisions to Maximize Cow/Calf Revenues

I’m a week behind schedule getting to this sixth installment of Rambling on Revenues. I wish my excuse was “life happens and sometimes the article doesn’t get written on time”. Unfortunately, this time death, not life, happened. I was away from work last week to try...