Cost of Production Episodes
Every Ag View Pitch conversation on cost of production — summaries, key takeaways, and full transcripts.
Sep 2019
Harvest series: Missouri not in misery, yet
LG Seeds manager Cara Meteer reports early Missouri corn at 200 to 220 bushels, a 108-day hybrid at 170, and why fungicided acres will cost more to dry.
Sep 2019
Harvest series: Texas moving north, early yield reports
Russell French reports High Plains yields: dryland corn at 20 to 80 bushels, 300 bushel irrigated corn, spider mite damage, and strong grain sorghum.
Sep 2019
Sunday night market update
Duane Lowry argues a farmer always carries risk and shows how to judge whether selling actually lowers it, using carryout, basis and market sentiment.
Aug 2019
Corn and soybeans: how do we finish the growing season?
Pioneer agronomist Eric Zumbach puts numbers on frost risk: 12 to 15% yield loss at half milk line, 25 to 30% at quarter milk line, plus bean node counts.
Aug 2019
Market update: what's up with corn and soybeans this week?
Duane explains why basis and flat price have to be forecast together, and how to rank crops by the return each one earns per bushel of storage space.
Aug 2019
Coffee makes farming possible: special edition Hawai'i
Tour Kona Joe's 18-acre Hawaii farm: trellised coffee trees yield 40% more cherries, CBB control, hand harvest, and an 80% loss to green bean.
Aug 2019
Missouri agronomist; Don Mario, new player in the seed world North America
Agronomist Dana Harder on tank contamination, gray leaf spot moving north, fungicide payback in 2019, and Don Mario soybeans arriving from Argentina.
Jul 2019
Agronomy update: timing is everything
Agronomist Adam Brinker on three waves of pollination, when to spray uneven corn, the R3 to R5 soybean window, and frost risk on June planted corn.
Jul 2019
Hot dry forecast: heating up the grain markets this week?
Duane Lowry explains why a weather rally arrives before the trade believes it, and why margin targets beat price targets when volatility shows up.
Jul 2019
Opportunities ahead?
Duane Lowry on stalled crop ratings, heat in the 6 to 10 day maps, corn resistance at $4.80 and $5.20, and why beans may lead any weather rally.
Jul 2019
Ready, set... slow
Duane Lowry on corn stabilizing after a bearish USDA report, why traders ignore late planting, and setting a farm-by-farm margin target right now.
Jul 2019
Operating in a new stratosphere
Joe Paulson farms with his dad in north central Illinois and counts groceries and family living in his cost of production. Why that makes selling easier.
Jun 2019
All about weeds
Adam Striegel on matching herbicides to weed size, why residuals matter, cover crop choices, and cleaning up ground with years of poor weed control.
Jun 2019
Small victories with Wisconsin dairy Norm-E-Lane
Jerod Schmidt on planting 4,700 acres in a wet spring, a 60-foot three-point planter that leaves no ruts, and holding out for 18 tons of silage.
Jun 2019
Strategic planning discussion: weekly market outlook
Duane Lowry explains why the moment everyone finally turns bullish is the moment to advance sales, and how to build a gross revenue target per acre.
Jun 2019
Mid week market update
Duane Lowry on why a USDA report that punts is still a direction, how to size sales against your insurance guarantee, and why basis keeps rising.
Jun 2019
Don't stop believing
Chris Barron and Duane on the 2019 corn correction, 10 million prevent plant acres, and why a 20 percent yield cut pushes breakeven to $4.67 cash.
May 2019
Danger zone
Strategic account manager Jeff Cole reports 30 percent of corn and 10 percent of soybeans planted in Indiana, plus when to switch off 113-day hybrids.
May 2019
Taking care of business
Duane Lowry breaks down 2019 corn and soybean planting progress state by state, record prevent plant odds, and how to recheck your percent sold.
May 2019
NE Illinois: control what you can
Pioneer's Alyssa Abbott on holding 111 day hybrids into June, GDU math for late planting, and running prevent plant numbers for your own farm.
May 2019
Farm aid package
Chris Barron and Duane Lowry break down USDA's $14.5 billion trade aid payment and why the guaranteed first third will not change prevent plant math.
May 2019
Agronomy update
Pioneer's Adam Brinker on 2019 stands after a wet spring: corn four weeks in the ground, mid-20s populations, and 70% yield potential for late-May corn.
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