Rant: Farmers

[cpebbles]

Incidentally, I can't believe these guys were able to front a TV advertising campaign, but I saw a commercial for this website on Comedy Central and I figured I'd do you guys the favor:

http://www.farmersonly.com

[JackofDiamonds]

This is a really interesting thread (except for that cheating bastard cpebbles). Good luck to you guys through this period, here's hoping for some late season rain. I am not going to begrudge the farmer's of the world their success through the recession (and as an employee in the financial industry, I can't say the same for my firm). Business is a boom and bust cycle, and farmer's know that better than most.

[IMADreamer]

Incidentally, I can't believe these guys were able to front a TV advertising campaign, but I saw a commercial for this website on Comedy Central and I figured I'd do you guys the favor:

http://www.farmersonly.com

I kind of want to make fun of that, but I kind of get it too. Farming can certainly be a life of solitude, long hours, and being away from everyone. I could see it being very tough to get dates being a farmer. I know when I was off to college several of my GFs didn't get the whole farming thing, or that when it came time to harvest that's all you did for three months straight. It's not a job, it's a lifestyle and I think people who have never lived on a farm can't understand it.

[sighyoung]

It's almost time for my biennial posting of Nick Lowe's video, "All Men are Liars."

[JackofDiamonds]

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[IMADreamer]

Got an over weight ticket this morning on my way to the elevator. No freaking idea how I did it because we have scales on the grain cart and we try and measure it out but apparently something was off because it was over weight by a lot. There goes some profit. I think I write the check out to "the peoples republic of Illinois" and in the memo line put "[expletive] you."

Anyway for you investor types today starts the "crop tour" which is how the USDA figures out the fall tally on how much crop there is. It's going to be bad so you might want to buy corn and beans today because late in the week when the reports start coming in there should be a run up on corn and soybeans.

*note this post is not intend as investment advice. IMADreamer LLC is not responsible if you lose your ass playing in the grain futures market.

[Swirls]

Got an over weight ticket this morning on my way to the elevator. No freaking idea how I did it because we have scales on the grain cart and we try and measure it out but apparently something was off because it was over weight by a lot. There goes some profit. I think I write the check out to "the peoples republic of Illinois" and in the memo line put "[expletive] you."

Anyway for you investor types today starts the "crop tour" which is how the USDA figures out the fall tally on how much crop there is. It's going to be bad so you might want to buy corn and beans today because late in the week when the reports start coming in there should be a run up on corn and soybeans.

*note this post is not intend as investment advice. IMADreamer LLC is not responsible if you lose your ass playing in the grain futures market.

I take it this is the crop equivalent of the daily cattle report that one of my old co-workers used to listen to every morning at work on NPR?

[IMADreamer]

Got an over weight ticket this morning on my way to the elevator. No freaking idea how I did it because we have scales on the grain cart and we try and measure it out but apparently something was off because it was over weight by a lot. There goes some profit. I think I write the check out to "the peoples republic of Illinois" and in the memo line put "[expletive] you."

Anyway for you investor types today starts the "crop tour" which is how the USDA figures out the fall tally on how much crop there is. It's going to be bad so you might want to buy corn and beans today because late in the week when the reports start coming in there should be a run up on corn and soybeans.

*note this post is not intend as investment advice. IMADreamer LLC is not responsible if you lose your ass playing in the grain futures market.

I take it this is the crop equivalent of the daily cattle report that one of my old co-workers used to listen to every morning at work on NPR?

In a way it's like that but it's a seasonal report. It carries a ton of weight with the markets because it's sort of the official best guess of what's out there to be harvested. Normally it's this time of year because it's right before harvest would start but this year it's kind of in the heart of harvest. It also is done this time of year because it's right before the big farm shows that are next week and the week after.

I heard yesterday from two different reliable sources that everyone is worried about corn and for good reason but soybeans are actually the bigger issue. I guess there is some fear that the US will actually run out of soybeans this year because of South American multi year shortages and a poor crop here. I'm not so sure on that because I think the US soybean crop may be better then expected but these people are far smarter then me so they probably are right.

[Diddy]

I can't believe you got an overweight ticket hauling local. We always run heavy at harvest, everyone does, dot does but they don't bother with it during harvest.

We got some rains this weekend, I don't know how but these beans have managed to hold on this long. If this hurricane comes up through NOLA we might end up with something. It'd still be below average but it would be something. That's assuming we don't get an early frost.

[Diddy]

Leaving for Colorado after lunch for a big bull auction. That's right tax deductible vacation haters.