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MANAGER’S DESK
Jerald KemmererCEO/GM Pride Ag Resources I hope that you and your family are enjoying 2025 so far. The teams of employees are looking forward to this New Year. Being a great opportunity to work with our customers again. The beginning of each calendar year, is an opportunity of resolution. To ensure that we bring balance to our lives with positive influences, that override the negatives ones. We are focused as a team of employees on the positives. Of what lies ahead for this coming year and how we can better serve you the customer.
This will definitely be a start to a New Year with a new administration in Washington DC taken place. The markets have been reacting in anticipation on how China and other countries will react to tariffs or trade stipulations. There are still several cabinet picks that need to be confirmed. As they start the rollover of 4,000 plus jobs with the change of the new administration. Currently we are seeing a higher US dollar value than the market has seen in almost a year. As well as oil and corporate stocks. The million dollar question in the grain markets is, how will China react to the tariffs? This being President Trumps second term in office, export traders are trying to anticipate how the futures and grain exports will play out. So far we have
First Quarter 2025 not seen much grain exports to China this past year. A surprise in the export market has been the corn market. As there has been several different trades to a variety of different countries purchasing. With the 2024 Harvest finally getting finished, milo was received through the end of December at a few locations. Thanks to the team of employees for the long drawn out harvest that started the first of September. The corn harvest was a little better than average with better yields being recorded across our trade territory. Milo receipts were down from last year which comes from fewer acres being planted plus lower than expected yields especially in our western territory. I appreciate the
Inside This Issue 2 Safety 3 Safety - Ace Hardware 4 Grain - Agronomy 5 Agronomy - Feed 6 Feed 7 AV Energy – Board of Directors