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COVID-19’s impact on ag USDA economist reviews changes

By Tom C. Doran

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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — The impacts of the pandemic on agriculture were addressed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s chief economist in an April 2 webinar hosted by University of Illinois farmdoc.

Robert Johansson reviewed

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the fast-moving changes that have taken place since the agency’s Agricultural Outlook Forum in February.

At that time, debt was reaching historic levels, but interest rates remained low keeping the interest repayment capacity slightly better than in 2019.

The debt-to-asset ratio increased slightly, but still was at a relative low level, below 15%, and below the levels of the 1980s.

“Even in February we knew about the coronavirus. We started to look at how infec-

tions in Hubei, China, were st a r ting to ramp up throug h the month of January and into February, and at that time we did know that th- Johansson ere was a fairly significant impact at first on the Shanghai Composite Index, but that the S&P 500 had continued to shrug

off the coronavirus potential for global spread,” Johansson said.

“Now we’re looking at private sector forecasts for the U.S. gross domestic product grow th with significant declines across board. Now there are significant expectations that the second quarter of U.S. GDP will be reduced by as much as 25%.

“We saw jobless claims (April 2) jump to over 6 million individuals, by far a record over the previous week of over 3 million. The

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Slow ethanol, export demand

By Ashley Langreck

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WEST LAFAYET TE, Ind. — The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s planting predications didn’t sit well for the supply side of the corn price equation for the 2020 crop, when the USDA pegged the corn crop at 97 million acres nationwide.

“Even if farmers switch a million or two acres to soybeans, that still leaves the potential for a lot of corn come fall, assuming trend yield,” said Michael Langemeier, a Purdue University agricultural economist and associate director of Purdue’s Center for Commercial Agriculture.

Langemeier said he believes that some farmers may choose to switch to soybeans, but overall he doesn’t expect a lot of individuals to switch from corn to soybeans.

“There may be some switching to soybeans, but overall I don’t expect lots of switching.” he said.

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SUPPLY CHAIN IMPACT Johansson noted how food and agricultural products are being impacted in the supply chain. For example, the open table restaurant reservations fell dramatically in March, and there are more macro-economic impacts from the global spread of the pandemic.

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Cash rents likely to fall WEST LAFAYET TE, Ind. — After most farmers set their budgets for 2020, predicted potential crop income and profits for the year took a sharp downward turn.

Michael Langemeier, a Purdue University agricultural economist and associate director of P urdue’s Center for Commercial Agriculture, said c a sh r ent s were already set for the year and some indiv iduals had already made partial or even full Langemeier payments for 2020.

“Things looked much different by the first of April than they did even in February, when I was discussing crop outlooks at outlook meetings,” Langemeier said.

Jim Mintert, who is also a Purdue agricultural economist and the director of Purdue’s Center for Commercial Agriculture, said the COVID-19 pandemic is a contributing factor as to why corn and soybean prices are slipping and changing the overall outlook, but it’s not the only reason.

S&P Index is still relatively high compared to historic levels, but it has obviously taken a big hit.”

Looking ahead with lessons learned in 2019

By Tom C. Doran

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MEANINGFUL MONDAY: MAKING NEW CONNECTIONS

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INDIANAPOLIS — Mondays are typically known as being the day of the week that most people dread because it marks the end of the weekend and the start of a new work week.

However, Mamie Hertel, Hertel who is serving as the 20192020 National FFA central region vice president, has made it her mission to help FFA members get more out of their Mondays.

Hertel, along with her fellow teammates, decided to start a social media campaign to help stay connected with FFA members while travel bans, and restrictions are in place to help stop the spread of COVID-19.

INDIANAPOLIS — Tess Seibel, the 2019-2020 National FFA eastern region vice president, has been using social media to make pantry snacks and chat with members.

Seibel and her officer Seibel teammates decided while they are practicing social distancing to start a social media platform to stay connected with FFA members and host a themed-video every Monday through Saturday featuring one of the six National FFA officers.

Seibel said that connecting with students is something she and her fellow teammates love, which is why they ran for National FFA office in the first place.

CHATSWORTH, Ill. — Juneplanted corn is not at the top of anyone’s wish list, but there were some lessons learned from last year’s experiences.

Robert Clark, Stone Seed technical agronomist, looked back at 2019 and gave recommendations for the 2020 growing season at a recent Agronomy Day at the Central Illinois Connection CentClark er.

As last year’s planting season was stretched later and later, farmers were frequently asking Clark about switching corn maturities.

“When do I do it? Will it reach black layer? What will my moisture be? They are all really good questions. I don’t know if anyone had the perfect answer, but there are some really good resources out there that can be referenced,” Clark said.

Purdue University research found that seven growing degree days are lost from the corn’s lifecycle each day it is planted after May 1. “We challenged that a little bit last year, and I think realistically where we ended up was somewhere between zero and seven (growing degrees days per day), probably halfway. It didn’t shorten up the corn life quite as much as we had expected based on that, but it’s nice to have it in our back pocket if we are ever in that situation again,” Clark explained.

He referred to planting date trials conducted last year at the Bayer Research Center near Monmouth and his own trials. Planting dates of June 3 and June 11 were used in the field research.

The typical hybrids used in that area are the 108- to 114-day maturities.

“We found that 110- to 114day hybrids were the best yielding corn planted June 3 last year at the Monmouth location. The moisture was in the lower 20s for the fuller season hybrids and the high teens for the really early (95- to 103-day) hybrids.”

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Marguerite Bolt checks hemp plants during the 2019 growing season. With the wet growing season in 2019, Bolt says about 3,000 acres of hemp were harvested in Indiana. For 2020, 192 licenses have been issued to growers in Indiana for 6,000 acres.

Planting a seed for 2020 Researchers evaluate varieties, best management practices

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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Choosing hemp seeds for the 2020 growing season is an important aspect of growing the crop.

“Even if they’re from outside of the state, seed sellers need to have an Indiana seed permit license to sell seed in Indiana with the intended destination and the amount of material transported,” said Marguerite Bolt, hemp specialist for Purdue Extension.

“It is common to see false certificates of analysis, they are common across the country,”

Bolt said during a Novel CBD Production webinar, hosted by Purdue University, University of Illinois Extension, University of Wisconsin-Madison Extension and Michigan State University Extension.

“One way to vet any company that you are purchasing from is to call a third-party lab,” Bolt said. “If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is, so be wary, do your homework and look into companies.”

In 2019, Indiana growers registered to plant 5,300 acres of hemp, 4,000 acres were planted and a little over 3,000 acres were harvested, Bolt said.

“It was a really wet year so that was a definite issue,” Bolt said. “And some growers wanted to do research so they had no intention of entering it into the marketplace.

“We had a couple of people direct seed for cannabinoid with not a lot of success,” she said. “It was wet, they had issues with germination and then weed management was a serious issue.”

For 2020, Bolt said, 192 licenses have been approved for farmers to grow hemp in Indiana that total 6,000 acres.

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Q&A: ROBERT JOHANSSON

Economist discusses trade, relief package

By Tom C. Doran

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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Trade, ethanol and the agriculture part of the coronavirus rescue package were topics of discussion in a University of Illinois farmdoc-hosted webinar on April 2.

Robert Johansson, U.S. Department of Agriculture chief economist, answered the broad range of questions about those issues at the conclusion of the online event.

How optimistic are you about economic prospects over the next six months?

“We did see some optimism at the beginning of the year as the U.S. has signed the deal with China. We don’t have an updated ag barometer from Purdue University and the CME, but we have seen some declining signals on the other indices that we tracked, whether that is the Dow Jones Industrial average, the Rural Main Street Survey, the housing market starts from the National Association of Home Builders and corn prices, as well. So, we would expect that generally speaking the ag barometer responses from producers will also track downwards in the next period.

“During the Great Recession, U.S. food expenditures in 20082009 declined by about $25 billion in 2009 relative to where we were in 2008. We saw a dramatic decline in cattle, diary and cotton receipts by the height of the recession in 2009.

“I wouldn’t say this was the same for all of the different commodities, but I think it’s fairly indicative of what we might see if the U.S. and global GDP growth slows or declines significantly in 2020 and then how we would expect a relatively quick recovering following the development of more treatments and such moving out into 2021 and 2022.”

production from ethanol plants and what percentage of corn prices is dependent on the ethanol industry?

“The actual price reflection of corn use and the grind will change a little bit over time. We would expect as a 10% decline in gasoline sales to see at least a 10% decline in ethanol sales, as well, depending on our exports.

“We would expect as part of Phase 1 with China that China may increase its purchases of ethanol. It’s still too soon to determine whether that’s the case or not. They’re also still recovering from their coronavirus outbreak that shutdown a lot of their economy, certainly in Hubei Province.

“But for the U.S. we would expect domestic use of ethanol to fall by at least 10%, over one-half billion gallons. That’s a pretty significant on that corn supply, particularly if we’re looking at planting 97 million acres. I think that’s one of the reasons why we’ve seen corn futures fall by 50 cents a bushel in the last couple of weeks.”

Is it possible for China to reach the Phase 1 agreement commitments for 2020 regarding buying U.S. ag commodities?

“I think it still is feasible for China to meet their Phase 1 commitments. Is it likely?

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that they would meet their commitments to purchase by the end of December for Phase 1 or whether that will spill over into 2021, which also has its own commitments for purchases.

“There are a lot of different ways that China can meet its commitments.

They could purchase ethanol. They can purchase other livestock products. I know that their purchases of corn and cotton have been increasing recently. So, we would still think that the Phase 1 commitments are achievable for 2020 and 2021.

“I think everybody would acknowledge that those Phase 1 purchase commitments were an extremely good signal for U.S. producers. I

still think they’re an extremely good signal for U.S. producers. I also think that there were suggestions that they were ambitious sales purchases and that was even before coronavirus hit.

“I would suggest that the observation that they were ambitious sales commitments is still valid and that the coronavirus impacts are still causing uncertain demand in the United States, as well as abroad, and it would only certainly make those Phase 1 commitment still ambitious and somewhat uncertain as to whether the actual amounts will be met by the end of December.”

Will there be a Market Facilitation Program part three?

“The president has

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said that if a third MFP is needed because the Phase 1 deal is not being met, that’s a possibility.

USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue has also indicted that he doesn’t think that it will be needed, but we’re certainly tracking the progress on the Phase 1 deal and providing that information to the administration.”

The $2 trillion coronavirus aid package includes $9.5 billion to USDA secretary to support producers impacted by the pandemic and specifically mentions “producers of specialty crops, producers that supply local food systems, including farmers markets, restaurants and schools” as well as “livestock producers, including dairy producers.”

Does USDA have more

flexibility to distribute those funds?

“The spending authority for that $9.5 billion talked about providing agricultural producers with support. It included some subsets of what agricultural producers could be, but certainly that wasn’t an exclusive list. “‘Agricultural producers’ is a pretty broad range of production in the United States. So, there is the discretion and flexibility to be able to uses those monies to target the sectors most affected.”

Tom C. Doran can be reached at 815-780-7894 or tdoran@agrinewspubs.com. Follow him on Twitter at: @AgNews_ Doran.

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Supply, demand report in line with expectations

By Tom C. Doran

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MINNEAPOLIS — In the days leading up to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s world agricultural supply and demand estimates report, commodity traders expected increases in ending grain stocks and that’s what happened on April 9.

Ami Heesch, CHS Hedging market analyst, delivered the report’s details from her perspective in a Minneapolis Grain Exchange-hosted teleconference.

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A student harvests leafy greens at the Purdue Student Farm.

Food Finders Purdue Student Farm stocks local pantries with fresh produce WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Amid rising economic insecurity and heightened uncertainty, the Purdue Student Farm is doing all it can to keep its local community healthy and well-fed.

The usual outlets the farm sells to, mainly campus dining venues, are closed due to the COVID-19 virus, but the farm is still active and producing. Currently, the farm supplies Food Finders Food Bank and the on-campus ACE Food Pantry with fresh produce.

Over the last three weeks, Steve Hallett, horticulture and landscape architecture professor and adviser to the student farm, said, they have donated 100 bags of fresh greens to Food Finders every Monday and Thursday.

“There is a possibility that there may be some shortages of fresh vegetables as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in donations to organizations such as Food Finders, and we want to do our part for our community,” Hallett said.

Currently, leafy greens are mainly what’s available for harvest, but Chris Adair, the student farm manager, said they will continue making donations to pantries as new crops

become ready to harvest and this crisis persists.

“We’re going to run the farm for as long and as normally as possible,” he said. “We try to always promote the idea that access to healthy food is essential for every community, not just during times like this.”

The farm is taking extra precautions to keep its student employees and beneficiaries safe and healthy. This involves dividing into two small groups that never interact with each other and keeping employees a safe distance apart while harvesting or packaging.

Additionally, while handling food and packaging, students wear masks and gloves at all times.

It may feel like the world has stopped but people still need access to food, which means workers along the entire supply chain, from farmers to grocery clerks, are essential in keeping the nation fed, Hallett said.

“We are planning for the rest of the season,” he said. “It is sowing and planting time. We hope we will be able to sell to the dining halls by the end of the summer, but if not, we will sell directly to the community and we will continue to donate.”

Purdue University colleges join virtual effort for food donations WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Over the past nine years, Purdue University’s College of Agriculture has collected a total of 319,438 pounds of food to donate to Food Finders Food Bank during its annual food drive.

This year’s food drive will look a little different, as the majority of faculty, students and staff are working and studying remotely due to the COVID-19 virus.

Instead of gathering food donations, the college will collect monetary contributions online. The College of Agriculture is joined in the food drive by seven other major academic units — Purdue Libraries; School of Information Studies; the colleges of Health and Human Sciences, Pharmacy and Veterinary Medicine; the Honors College; and Polytechnic Institute.

“Never has it been more important to ensure that our community is strong, healthy and secure, and that means making sure everyone has access to food,” said Karen Plaut, the Glenn W. Sample Dean of Agriculture.

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counties, including Tippecanoe County, and our colleges can play a critical role in providing this vital resource to Hoosiers.”

The virtual food drive will run through April 17.

All of the money raised will go directly to Food Finders.

According to Food Finders, every dollar donated translates into roughly three meals and $25 provides approximately 75 meals.

Melissa Funk, administrative assistant in Agriculture’s Office of Multicultural Programs, has organized the food drive over the past several years, including this year’s virtual drive.

People are looking for ways to help right now while still maintaining social distancing, Funk said, and this is a great option to aid the community directly.

One in eight people in north-central Indiana suffers from food insecurity. With unemployment on the rise throughout the state and country due to COVID-19, those numbers are likely to rise.

For more information and to donate to the food drive, visit https://bit.ly/2V9pz4v.

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Which of the crop balance sheets featured the biggest surprise?

“The average trade estimate for soybean ending stocks was 430 million bushels. In the 2019-2020 balance sheet, crush was up 20 million bushels, exports were down 50 million and residual was down 24 million bushels.

“Total use was down 56 million bushels, raising our ending stocks by 55 million to 480 million bushels. That was above our trade range of 385 million to 475 million bushels.”

What did the report tell us about South American soybean production?

“Argentina soybean production was lowered from 54 million metric tons to 52 million.

Brazil soybean production was lowered from 126 million metric tons to 124.5 million. The trade range was 122 million to 126 million, so it was in line with that.”

How did USDA’s corn supply and demand numbers compare with pre-report guesses?

“U.S. corn imports for 20192020 were lowered by 5 million bushels to 45 million and feed was up 150 million bushels.

Ethanol was down 375 million bushels which is probably expected given the reports that we’ve seen recently.

“So, our total use was down 205 million bushels, raising our ending stocks to 2.092 billion bushels. The average ending stocks trade guess was 2.004 billion bushels. The range was 1.792 billion to 2.150 billion bushels. It came in within line of what the trade was expecting.”

On the world wheat side, there were questions leading to the report of possible production reductions in some countries due to weather conditions.

“The world wheat balance sheet for the 2019-2020 marketing year didn’t change much. I thought we’d have something with the ongoing dryness in Russia, some of the cool, wet weather this spring in Europe and drier conditions in Ukraine and France, but USDA didn’t make any changes today. So, maybe we’ll see that in the future.”

What were some highlights of USDA’s domestic wheat estimates?

“The biggest change was in the hard red winter wheat with a 10 million bushel drop in domestic use and 10 million bushel drop in exports, raising

ending stocks to 503 million bushels and giving us a stocksto-use ratio of 59%.

“Soft red winter wheat saw a 5 million bushel reduction in domestic use and a 5 million bushel reduction in exports, giving us a 10 million bushel increase in ending stocks to 116 million bushels. That left a stocks-to-use ratio of 40.6%.

“The 2018-2019 balance sheet for all wheat was unchanged and there was a slight increase in our 2019-2020 ending stocks from 940 million in March to 970 million bushels.

“That was from our decrease in domestic usage (down 15 million bushels) and exports (down 30 million bushels). That gave us a stocks-to-use ratio of 45.5%. We still have a fair amount of wheat around.”

What should we watch for in future reports?

“I think we probably can expect to see a few more changes in future reports. USDA is looking at resurveying five states for corn and soybeans that were left to be harvested.

“We’ll watch the weather to see how much prevent plant versus planting of maybe a little bit more spring wheat plantings because they didn’t like what happened to the corn last year and the struggle to harvest it in North Dakota, as well.”

Tom C. Doran can be reached at 815-780-7894 or tdoran@ agrinews-pubs.com. Follow him on Twitter at: @AgNews_ Doran.

USDA projects hike in grain ending stocks

By Tom C. Doran

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WASHINGTON — Slightly lower anticipated use was reflected in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s April 9 corn, soybean and wheat balance sheets for the current marketing year.

Here are the details from the world agricultural supply and demand estimates report.

Corn: The season-average marketing weighted corn price received by producers was lowered by 20 cents from last month to $3.60 per bushel. Why? n Feed and residual use was increased by 150 million bushels to 5.675 billion. This is based on quarterly corn stocks reported as of March 1 which indicated disappearance during the December-February quarter rose about 4% compared to a year ago. n Corn used to produce ethanol was lowered by 375 million bushels to 5.05 billion based on the latest indications from Energy Information Administration data indicate an unprecedented decline in ethanol production and motor gasoline consumption as a result of COVID-19. Partly offsetting is a forecast increase in the amount of corn used for alcohol for beverages and manufacturing use. n With supply down fractionally and use declining, ending stocks were raised 200 million bushels to 2.092 billion. n Global corn ending stocks, at 303.2 million tons, are up 5.8 million from last month.

Soybeans: USDA reduced the an-

ticipated 2019-2020 season-average price by a nickel to $8.65 per bushel. Why? n Soybean exports were reduced from 1.825 billion bushels in March to 1.775 billion bushels in this report mainly on strong competition from Brazil. n Two million bushels in lower seed use reflects plantings for the 2020-2021 crop indicated in the March 31 prospective plantings report. n Residual use was reduced based on indications in the March 31 grain stocks report. n Soybean crush was increased by 20 million bushels on higher soybean meal exports and increased domestic disappearance. n Domestic soybean meal use is forecast higher with an expected reduction in available supplies of dried distiller’s grain resulting from lower ethanol production. n With higher crush only partly offsetting lower exports, seed and residual use, ending stocks are projected at 480 million bushels, up 55 million from last month. n USDA lowered Argentina’s production by 2 million tons to 52 million, reflecting dry conditions in the main growing regions during the latter part of February into early March. n Soybean production for Brazil was reduced by 1.5 million tons to 124.5 million due to dry conditions in Rio Grande do Sul while the crop was in pod-filling and maturation stages. n China’s imports were raised 1 million tons to 89 million, reflecting higher Brazilian shipments.

n Global soybean ending stocks are 2 million tons lower than last month as lower stocks in Brazil are partly offset with higher U.S. and Chinese stocks.

Wheat: Despite larger ending stocks, the projected season-average farm price was increased by 5 cents to $4.60 per bushel. Why? n The increase was based on National Agricultural Statistics Service data, as well as surging nearby cash and futures prices, partially resulting from the global COVID-19 pandemic. n The quarterly grain stocks report implied less feed and residual disappearance for both the second and third quarters than previously estimated. Total 2019-2020 feed and residual use is trimmed 15 million bushels to 135 million. n Wheat exports were also cut 15 million bushels to 985 million on a slowing pace and prices that have become uncompetitive in many international import markets. By class, hard red winter and soft red winter are reduced 10 million and 5 million bushels, respectively. n The changes result in a 30 million bushel increase in estimated all wheat ending stocks to 970 million. n Aggregate world consumption was lowered 5.1 million tons following updates to several countries. The largest reductions are 2 million tons for China, 1.9 million for India and 1 million in the European Union. n With supplies higher and use down, projected 2019-2020 global ending stocks were increased by 5.6 million tons to a record high 292.8 million.

New program leader for 4-H youth development WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Casey Mull has been selected as Purdue Extension’s new assistant director and program leader for 4-H youth development.

Mull succeeds Renee McKee, who recently retired after serving in the position for 17 years.

Mull also has been appointed to a clinical associate professor position in the Department of Agricultural Science Education and Communication.

Jason Henderson, director of Purdue Extension and senior associate dean of the Purdue College of Agriculture, expressed excitement for Mull to implement his expertise and passion for youth programs at Indiana 4-H. “I am thrilled to have Dr. Casey Mull as our 4-H youth development program leader. His personal story of how 4-H shaped his life as a youth and now through his professional career is a testament to the impact of 4-H on people’s lives. He is a respected leader nationally in 4-H, and I look forward to seeing how the freshness of his ideas can help expand our programs,”

Henderson said.

Mull earned his bachelor’s degree in busi ne s s f rom Wake Forest University and his master’s and doctoral degrees from Mull the University of Georgia.

Since 2009, he has been the extension military specialist for 4-H youth development at the University of Georgia.

In this position, he coordinated and co-coordinated programs serving over 8,000 people in 53 states and territories and six countries, secured over $10 million in grants, gifts and donations and trained or presented to over 3,000 individuals.

No stranger to Purdue, Mull has worked with Purdue Extension’s leadership for the past 10 years on Military Teen Adventure Camps and Extension Military Partnerships.

“I’m most excited to work with

the people of Indiana, especially since the 4-H program here is so well recognized regionally and nationally,” Mull said.

“My 4-H experience started in the fifth grade, but what I didn’t know at the time was that it would become my career. I’m eager to partner with the incredible young people, educators and volunteers across the state to impact their lives and make their communities better, just like 4-H has done for me.”

Mull will continue to serve as deputy chief in public affairs for the 94th Airlift Wing in the U.S. Air Force Reserve, where he leads 12 full-time and part-time photojournalists and broadcasters to engage various audiences in media relations and community engagement.

He is an active member of the National Association of Extension 4-H Youth Development Professionals and served as president of NAE4-HYDP from 2017-18.

Mull is also a third-generation auctioneer and enjoys working with local communities at benefit and charity auctions.

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Growers may be unfamiliar with federal seed regulations

By Martha Blum

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FORT COLLINS, Colo. — A large segment of the hemp industry is unfamiliar with federal seed regulations.

“You commonly see no labels or falsified labels on hemp seed,” said Wendy Mosher, during a Novel CBD Production webinar, hosted by Purdue University, University of Illinois Extension, University of WisconsinMadison Extension and Michigan State University Extension.

“You will see hot seed labeled as compliant and inaccurate germination rates,” said Mosher, who is the chair of the American Seed Trade Association Hemp Committee.

“The industry has to learn how to take seeds to an appropriate third-party seed lab to get them tested instead of utilizing self testing.”

The Federal Seed Act regulates the seed and vegetable commerce for the purpose of protecting the consumer and promoting uniformity between states.

“The quality statements you put on your seed label must be truthful and you have to keep records,” Mosher said. “The

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“We have a requirement that research has to be conducted with an institute of higher learning, so they have to work with faculty or with county Extension educators,” Bolt said.

“We have a checkbox on our application that states you have reviewed varieties grown in Indiana,” she said. “And if they have a history of going hot you’re aware of that and you’re assuming that risk if you decide to purchase that variety and plant it.”

ILLINOIS In Illinois, the plans for 2020 include large-scale, grower-led research trials for hemp production across the state and collaborating with labs on the U of I campus to do cannabinoid profiling, said Phillip Alberti, U of I Extension commercial agriculture educator serving Jo Daviess, Stephenson and Winnebago counties.

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“So, even though the U.S. economy is facing some challenges, a lot of other market economies are also sustaining significant impacts and that’s translating into a stronger dollar which will have implications for agricultural trade going for ward,” Johansson said.

Commodity futures are reflecting a downturn in expected prices since the first U.S. coronavirus case was documented on Jan. 21. Corn and soybeans futures are both down almost 50 cents per bushel since mid-January.

Ethanol margins have declined significantly. Gasoline and diesel demand have fallen substantially despite the decline in price. The expectation is there will be much lower gasoline sales in 2020.

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The six National FFA officers each have a day of the week, Monday through Saturday, where they host a themed video to connect with FFA members across the country.

Hertel said she is focusing on showing members there is “more to it all” and they

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But everything going on in the world right now has taught them it’s just not about connecting with FFA members in person or connecting with them at schools.

“We can use Zoom, FaceTime live and other technology to connect with members,” Seibel said.

Seibel said that her day of the week for hosting her positive videos to help stay connected with members is

Federal Seed Act established the regulatory standards for certified seed agents and this developed into the Association of Official Seed Certifying Agencies.”

Companies cannot put the word “certified” on seed packages unless the seed has been certified through AOSCA, Mosher said.

“AOSCA is a multi-country, third-party validation that maintains standards for each crop and validates the variety’s genetic purity, absence of weeds, germination and uniformity for harvest,” she said.

“We were the first company to walk through the process with a U.S.-bred variety for hemp,” said Mosher, president and CEO of New West Genetics. “We had to work with the Department of Agriculture, as well as the Colorado Seed Growers Association.”

Almost every state has a group that enacts the certified seed process according to AOSCA standards, Mosher said.

“The first step is to submit your variety description to the review board,” she said. “In Colorado, the THC trials are conducted by the Department

of Agriculture and they validate if the seed stays below the 0.3% THC in all locations.”

The AOSCA label will be the same across the nation, Mosher said.

“The blue certified seed tag will have the member entity stamp on it and the required standards listed on the label,” she said. “If you’re not seeing that, you need to question if it is certified seed.”

The ASTA hemp committee, Mosher said, has documents to help farmers with seed purchasing recommendations.

Evaluating costs for hemp production is an important step for all growers.

“When you choose your genetics, there’s a substantial cost associated with feminized seed,” Mosher said.

“And testing is costly, about $45 per sample so you can catch it before it goes over the maximum THC amount which adds to the cost per acre and the drying cost is highly variable from region to region.”

“There are a lot of varieties from different companies which are not performing the same because they are not the same,” Alberti said. “We will be doing sampling throughout the growing season to determine cannabinoid development at flowering, looking at flowering duration, days to flowering, insect and disease pressure and overall plant yields.”

According to the Illinois Department of Agriculture, the state issued 651 hemp growers licenses for the 2019 season.

“There were 7,000 acres planted and 5,200 acres harvested since quite a bit of hemp was left in the field,” Alberti said. “As of March, 623 cultivation licenses have been approved for 2020.”

of Wisconsin-Madison.

“From half to two-thirds of that was harvested,” she said.

The Wisconsin researchers are evaluating dual purpose hemp varieties for grain and fiber at two locations.

“We are studying different seeding rates and nitrogen rates,” Ellison said. “And we are conducing variety trials on 15 varieties.”

WISCONSIN A little over 1,200 growers in Wisconsin were licensed to grow almost 17,000 acres of hemp in 2019, but only 5,000 of those acres were planted, said Shelby Ellison, assistant faculty associate, Department of Horticulture at the University “That has implication for the amount of ethanol that’s blended into gasoline, and in addition we can see the breakeven ethanol producer margin at zero has been in the red for most of 2020 and has declined fairly dramatically in the last month,” Johansson noted.

CORN VERSUS SOYBEANS There has also been a shift in the corn versus soybeans economics since the USDA prospective plantings farmer surveys were conducted in early March for the report released March 31.

The survey indicated an 8% increase in corn planted acres to 97 million acres and a 10% increase in soybean acreage to 83.5 million.

“These are early March survey responses from producers when there were impacts of the coronavirus on the U.S. economy may have been weighing a little bit on producers’ minds when they thought about what

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MICHIGAN Many of the hemp varieties grown in Michigan last year came from Canada, said James DeDecker, director of Michigan State University Upper Peninsula Research and Extension Center.

“Stand establishment was a challenge with direct seeding,” DeDecker said.

“Last year, we had 541 growers for 32,000 approved acres, and we approved 389 processor/handler licenses,” he said.

“Our department of agriculture tested 820 samples last year, and 84% of them were below the 0.4% THC.” Martha Blum their expectations for plantings were. But in the three weeks after the survey was conducted we’ve seen deterioration in some of the commodity outlooks for a GDP forecast,” Johansson said.

“That being said, we’re expecting a very big corn crop this year. That’s not to be all that unexpected given last year’s historic prevent plant amounts, so we did expect more corn and soybean acres, but certainly this would point to a very large corn crop.

“Since that time we have seen t he soy be a n pr ice strengthened relative to corn.

T he soybean-to - cor n price ratio has inched up since the end of February and that would suggest that there may be some price signals up there for producers to go stronger on the soybeans relative corn corm, although I’m not suggesting that that is a forecast at this point in time.”

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can find more things to do on Mondays to help others.

Hertel said that some of her videos so far have been on adding more positivity into one’s life, adding more challenges and finding ways to make more connections with others.

As part of her challenge to help FFA members create connections with others, Hertel is working on a program where FFA members can be matched

up with each other and be pen pals.

“It’s been kind of unique connecting with members over social media right now,” Hertel said, adding that this wasn’t what she expected when she was elected as a National FFA officer, but thanks to technology she can still establish connections with hundreds of FFA members.

Thursday, which is when she hosts a Facebook Live and shows members how to make pantry snacks with ingredients that have stockpiled at home.

Besides just making a snack during her video, Seibel said she tries to incorporate a fun lesson about values along with it.

The National FFA eastern region vice president said that during her first video she focused on family traditions and celebrating them at home with the people you love.

Seibel said her mom helped

make the snack, which was popcorn with different mix-ins added to it to make it sweet or savory.

Another of her videos focused on the things that hold FFA members together, like the stickiness of a Rice Krispies treat.

To help hit this point home, she had an FFA chapter in Indiana zoom conference call-in, so FFA members tuning in to her session could ask them questions and help celebrate FFA and the bond it forms.

Ashley Langreck

Ashley Langreck

GROWING

vancements in seed treatments.

There are a lot that offer higher rates of fungicide now that can FROM PAGE ONE really help fight off early infections. If it’s a concern, that’s For the June 11 planting date something to look into.” trials, the 108-day and 112-day were the best yielding hybrids PLANTING PLANS and 114-day was close behind.

Looking ahead to 2020, ear“The early maturity corn lier planting of soybeans contindidn’t jump out at us. If we had ues to be a hot topic. to pick a date between the two, Soybeans have a little more everyone would probably pick flexibility for planting before June 3. What we saw from this corn and it’s all about risk and was that the best yields still rewards. came from that maturity range “From a risk standpoint, you we’re pretty used to working always have the potential for a with,” Clark noted. late frost. Corn can come out In his own planting date re- of it if the growing point is still search, Clark said the 111-day below the ground — V5 or so, but to 113-day hybrids had the top at the same time it’s not good on yields across numerous trials. corn either. It can be detrimen“Moisture-wise, on the June tal to soybeans if we have a hard 1 and later planted corn there’s frost in late April or some time only about a 2.5% spread in like that,” Clark said. moisture across the whole tri“We have a longer window to als. It showed that even earlier control weeds now for planting hybrids planted last year still earlier. The use of overlapping carried a lot of moisture when residual herbicides and things in those later plant dates,” he like that really becomes a big added. focal point.”

“It didn’t make sense from Stand loss is also a risk conanything I saw in 2019 to make cern for earlier planted soythe drastic hybrid switch to beans. something on the extreme side There’s been interest in recent of corn maturities. years of backing off soybean “When we start getting to the planting populations. second week of June that’s when “If you’re going to plant early, things started to get pushed a I don’t think it makes sense to little bit. The results suggest plant 100,000 and expect to have switching from a late maturity to 100,000 there when you get to earlier maturity may be justified June. A lot of seedling diseases by the second week of June. can still come in, even with “2019 was its own year; hope- treatment, cause a lot of stress fully we can move on to more and you’re going to likely lose normal conditions, but I do several plants along the way,” think this was an opportunistic Clark explained. look at what we can do moving “Now, I don’t think you need forward if we’re ever in a situa- to go crazy. I’ve kind of said tion like that again.”

140,000, 150,000 maybe if you’re in narrow rows are a good tarLATER ISSUES get to shoot for if you’re going to As if the start of 2019 wasn’t push things a little bit.” bad enough, the growing season ended with corn standability is- REWARDS sues in some areas as the harvest Clark believes early planting is was extended into November the single biggest thing a farmer and December. can do to gain soybeans yield Wet and compacted soils set without changing any inputs. the stage for crown rot.

Soybeans can be a bit more “We came off a late 2018 with forgiving than corn in wet, cold a lot of compaction issues. We conditions. Also, if a replant is didn’t get as much tillage done or needed, soybeans are easier to whatever strategy we use to con- replant. trol compaction. Then we had an Early soybean planting triextremely late spring in 2018 on als conducted in 2018 found a top of the wet conditions. This 12-bushel per acre advantage on can lead to a lot of crown row is- average for planting two weeks sues later in the fall,” Clark said. earlier.

Cold temperatures, fertility Clark doesn’t push as hard issues or herbicide injury can on extreme planting dates that also contribute to crown rot, but move it into March. He recomClark didn’t think any of those mends keeping insurance dates were major issues last year. in mind for planting.

A dry spell from the July “You can push things a little 4 weekend through mid- to bit, but I don’t know that we late-August in portions of Illinois need to go to the extreme to do stressed that same corn that was it. Personally I don’t know that planted in wet, compacted soils. I’ve seen any huge benefits of There is no perfect solution trying to get out there in late for managing crown rot on corn March, early April. It may be when the weather conditions are there, I don’t know that I’ve seen right. There are hybrids with dif- it,” he said. ferent tolerances, but in extreme “If you want to get going, environmental situations crown things are a little wet yet, maybe rot can still occur. not quite warmed up enough yet, “The key is to focus on root I think it’s a good idea to maybe health and reducing early sea- take a look at planting soybeans. son stress and in-season stress You want the right conditions to as much as possible. Promote plant corn. Soybeans can be a root health to keep the nutrient little more forgiving. Plant corn and water flow throughout the when it’s the right conditions, plant,” Clark said. not by the date on the calendar.”

“Avoid planting into really wet, compacted soils as much Tom C. Doran can be reached as possible. Because we can get at 815-780-7894 or tdoran@ across it doesn’t always mean it’s agrinews-pubs.com. Follow the right time to plant. him on Twitter at: @AgNews_ “There have been a lot of ad- Doran.

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“Exports for corn were down even before the COVID-19 shutdown began and low oil prices wreaked havoc on ethanol demand,” he said Mintert noted that some of the factors that are affecting the crop outlook, such as ethanol demand and exports, won’t clear up quickly even when the COVID19 crisis has slowed down.

“The profit picture didn’t look

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“To the extent some producers switch from their March planting intentions, they will most likely move away from corn-after-corn and back to a corn-soybean rotation, especially in western Corn Belt states,” he said.

Jim Mintert, who is a Purdue agricultural economist and Purdue’s director for the Center for Commercial Agriculture, said that whatever happens this growing season, there is still potential for plenty of soybeans this fall, too.

“We turn to the demand side for both crops, and particularly for corn, it’s not real rosy there either,” he said.

Mintert said that in the past few years ethanol and livestock feed accounted for nearly 80% of the corn demand nationwide and the demand was usually split almost evenly between the two sectors.

“The ethanol market was de-

good for 2020 even in February, and it certainly doesn’t look good now,” Langemeier said.

Langemeier said he believes there will be pressure on cash rents in 2021.

“It’s too late to impact rents for 2020, but I’m projecting cash rents could average 5% lower for 2021,” he said.

Ashley Langreck can be reached at 800-426-9438, ext. 192, or alangreck@ agrinews-pubs.com. Follow her on Twitter at: @AgNews_ Langreck. teriorating due to low oil prices and resulting weak gas prices, even before COVID-19 became a crisis in the U.S.,” Langemeier said, adding data from Iowa State University suggests that corn would have needed to drop another 30 cents per bushel below the April 1 basement price before ethanol producers would even be able to break even.

Mintert added that he doesn’t expect the ethanol market to recover quickly.

“We don’t expect the ethanol picture to improve very quickly.

We look for a slow recovery from the global recession developing now as a result of COVID-19,” he said.

Mintert said that the total U.S. corn usage for ethanol in 2019 was reported by the USDA at close to 5.43 billion bushels in March, but if ethanol plants are forced to shut down or current shutdowns extend into summers, corn usage for ethanol could fall as low as 5 billon bushels.

Ashley Langreck

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GARDENING CHECKLIST FOR APRIL INDOOR PLANTS AND ACTIVITIES Q Start seeds of warm-season plants — including tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, marigolds, zinnias and petunias — indoors for transplanting later to the garden.

Q Harden off transplants started earlier in spring before planting outdoors.

Gradually expose the young plants to outdoor conditions of wind, brighter sunlight and lower moisture.

Q Apply fertilizer to houseplants according to label directions as days grow brighter and longer and new growth begins. Foliage plants require relatively high-nitrogen fertilizer, while blooming plants thrive on formulations that are higher in phosphorus.

Q Keep Easter lily in a bright, cool location, out of direct sunlight. Water as soil begins to dry. You can remove the yellow, pollen-bearing anthers inside the flower by pinching to prevent staining the petals.

LAWNS, WOODY ORNAMENTALS AND FRUITS Q Plant a tree in celebration of Arbor Day, April 24. You should plant bareroot stock before new top growth begins. You can plant balled and burlapped and containerized stock later in spring.

Q Complete pruning chores.

Remove dead and injured branches first.

Q Apply a pre-bloom, multipurpose orchard spray to fruit trees.

Q Remove winter coverings from roses, but keep mulch nearby to protect them from late freezes. Prune and fertilize as needed.

Q Apply pre-emergent herbicide to control crabgrass in lawns. Approximate application dates are late March to mid-April in southern Indiana and mid-April to early May in northern Indiana. Exact timing varies each year with weather conditions. For more precise application timing based on Growing Degree Days, visit Michigan State University’s GDD Tracker. Enter your ZIP code and select “Crabgrass Pre.” The target GDD window for crabgrass prevention is 250 to 500.

FLOWERS, VEGETABLES AND SMALL FRUITS Q Plant seeds of cool-season crops directly in the garden as soon as the soil dries enough to be worked.

When squeezed, soil should crumble instead of forming a ball. Cool-season crops that can be direct-seeded include peas, lettuce, spinach, carrots, beets, turnips, parsnips and Swiss chard.

Q Plant transplants of cool-season crops, such as broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, Brussels sprouts, kohlrabi and onions.

Q Plant or transplant asparagus and rhubarb crowns.

For best plant establishment, do not harvest until the third year after planting.

Q Plant sections of certified, disease-free potato “seed” tubers.

Q Allow the foliage of spring-flowering bulbs to remain in place after blooms fade. Leaves manufacture the food reserves, which are then stored in the bulb for a repeat showing next year.

Q Plant hardy perennials, such as daylilies and delphiniums.

Q Start tuberous begonias and caladiums indoors for transplanting to garden later.

Q Remove winter mulch from strawberries, but keep mulch handy in case late frosts are predicted and to help keep weeds under control.

Q Plant or transplant strawberries, raspberries and other small fruit.

Q Prune grape vines to remove dead or weakened limbs and to thin as needed.

Q Repair support trellises as needed.

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LAWN & GARDEN Friend supplied Get growing more than hosta Organization key ingredient for a successful community garden

By B. Rosie Lerner

A friend gave me some starts of hosta last year, and where I planted them, this lovely surprise came up early this spring. I did not plant this so I’m guessing this came as a bonus with the hostas from my friend.

Can you identify?

What a great bonus!

This appears to be Corydalis solida — common name fumewort — most likely the cultivar “Beth Evans.” Fumewort is a spring ephemeral, emerging in early spring with finely cut foliage resembling bleeding heart, which is in the same plant family.

The plant reaches about 6 to 12 inches tall and with clusters of purplish pink tube-shaped flowers with spurred petals. The cultivar “Beth Evans” is distinguished by bright pink blossoms with contrasting whit-

By Martha Blum AGRINEWS PUBLICATIONS

STERLING, Ill. — Determining the need or desire of the community is the first step for developing a community garden.

A community garden can assist with food insecurity or a shortage of fresh produce, said Bruce Black, University of Illinois Extension horticulture educator for Carroll, Lee and Whiteside counties.

The outbreak of the COVID-19 virus should not prevent the establishment of community gardens this year, Black said.

“Since it is a respiratory virus, it has not been shown to stay on produce,” Black said. “Pickers must utilize good safety practices including washing their hands, and everyone should make sure they properly wash their produce.

“You may choose do an education or demonstration garden where volunteers put in a garden to teach members of the community how to grow fresh produce, flowers or to introduce new varieties,” he said.

For a donation garden, vegetables are grown to be donated to a food pantry, homeless shelter or community table.

“A community table can be placed at a hospital or church and then anybody in need can come and take what they can use,” Black said.

A therapy garden provides the opportunity to provide physical, emotion or spiritual health at hospitals, clinics or a special needs school.

“This is a way to provide therapy, as well as nutritious food,” Black said.

“You may choose to have several gardens in a neighborhood where you work collectively to share produce equally,” he said. “If someone has a yard that is excellent for tomatoes but terrible for cucumbers another neighbor can focus on growing cucumbers.”

When organizing the planning committee, Black said, include community partners such as the YMCA, local hospital, social service agencies, seed dealers and garden centers who can help with plant knowledge and a connection for discounted plants or donations.

“Master gardeners are volunteers for Extension that share their knowledge and passion for growing plants with their community,” Black said. “Always talk with your local government like mayor and county board to get involved with your project.”

Selecting a chairperson for the committee is an essential part of the process.

“You need a good chairperson who is well organized, able to maintain a level of professionalism when running the meetings, as well as delegating to other members of the committee,” Black said. “The committee should consist of five to seven people, depending on the number of organizations you’re working with.”

Community gardens will need resources such as construction materials for raised beds, fertilizer and access to water.

“Having close access to water will make or break a community garden,” Black said. “You need to decide if the tools will be provided by the participants or if there will be a shared supply of tools everyone has access to and this will require a place to store them.”

Select a convenient, accessible site for the community garden, Black said.

“If it’s on factory property, there may be heavy metals in the soil that need to be tested for, and if that’s an

Community gardens can be planted to assist with food insecurity or a shortage of fresh produce. issue, you may decide to put in raised beds,” Black said.

“A memorandum of understanding can provide participants rules, rights and responsibilities such as stating that no perennials or illegal substances can be planted,” he said.

Develop a maintenance schedule prior to planting the garden, Black said.

“Think about who will help pull weeds and the crop rotation schedule like putting the tomatoes peppers, egg plants and potatoes in different spots to help reduce the buildup of any soil-borne pathogens,” Black said.

“The site should have six hours or more of direct sunlight,” he said. “Plant the taller crops on the north side of your garden so the shorter crops still get full exposure to the sun.”

Black advises to avoid planting trees or shrubs in a community garden unless the goal is to establish a berry patch.

“Separate plant families

and don’t forget walking paths so people are not stepping on plants,” he said.

The community garden committee should establish a plan for handling issues.

“Think about how you will handle complaints, as well as theft and vandalism because sadly it does occur,” Black said. “You might need security like a fence, camera, lights or warning signs.”

Communication with those participating in the community garden can be accomplished through emails or a monthly newsletter.

“You can put a garden mailbox at the entrance of the garden to place important announcements,” Black said.

Fumewort “Beth Evans” in bloom. ish/pale pink highlights.

The plant usually dies back to the ground during hot, dry weather and remains dormant as underground tubers. Plants perform best in full or part shade with rich, moist soil.

It is certainly possible that the dormant tuber hitched a ride with the hosta start. Be sure to thank your friend for the special surprise.

B. Rosie Lerner is a Purdue Extension consumer horticulture specialist.

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REGIONAL WEATHER

Outlook for April 17 - April 23

Shown is Friday’s weather. Temperatures are Friday’s highs and Friday night’s lows.

Evanston 49/36 South Bend 46/31

Rockford 50/32 Rock Island 51/34

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Champaign 47/31 Lafayette 48/34

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Southern Illinois: Friday: a shower or two, except some rain and a thunderstorm in the south. Winds north-northeast 4-8 mph. Expect less than two hours of sunshine with a 60% chance of precipitation.

Indianapolis 45/33 Terre Haute 48/34

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Northern Indiana: Friday: a shower, perhaps a snow shower early in the north and west; a brief shower or two in the south. A rain or snow shower in the east.

Winds north 6-12 mph. Expect less than two hours of sunshine.

Central Indiana: Friday: a shower or two; snow at night. Winds west-southwest 4-8 mph. Expect less than two hours of sunshine with a 60% chance of precipitation and poor drying conditions. Average humidity 80%.

For 24-hour weather updates, check out www.agrinews-pubs.com Illinois Champaign Chicago Decatur E. St. Louis Evanston Joliet Mt. Vernon Peoria Quincy Rockford Rock Island Springfield

Northern Illinois: Friday: cool with clouds and sun; a shower, perhaps a snow shower early in the south and west.

Winds northwest 7-14 mph. Expect two to four hours of sunshine with fair drying conditions.

Central Illinois: Friday: a passing shower or two; a shower, perhaps a snow shower early in the north. Winds north 6-12 mph.

Expect less than two hours of sunshine with a 55% chance of precipitation.

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Southern Indiana: Friday: a little rain.

Winds west 7-14 mph. Expect less than two hours of sunshine with a 70% chance of precipitation and poor drying conditions.

Average relative humidity 70%.

SOUTH AMERICA Largely dry across Argentina to southern Brazil and Paraguay through Monday.

A front will spread showers and storms northward across these areas Tuesday and Wednesday.

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LIMITING THE SPREAD OF COVID-19

Procedures to protect farm labor WEST LAFAYET TE, Ind. — Maintaining a healthy farm workforce is more important than ever to limit the spread of COVID-19 and to ensure a successful harvest.

Purdue Extension recommends the following procedures to protect farm labor from COVID-19.

Farms should continue to enforce food safety best practices already in place such as proper hand-washing, monitoring for employees with symptoms of illness and training them on proper procedures if they experience any sickness.

It is imperative that growers review and follow the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines to limit the spread of COVID-19.

Guidelines include keeping workers at least 6 feet apart to comply with social distancing, frequent hand-washing, avoiding touching your eyes, nose and mouth and staying home if you are sick.

If a task doesn’t allow for workers to maintain social distancing, farms could consider using personal protective equipment to protect their workforce.

Growers are encouraged to repurpose personal protective equipment that is already on the farm such as dust masks, face shields and nitrile gloves.

If possible, PPE must be thoroughly cleaned and sanitized after every use. PPE that cannot be thoroughly cleaned and sanitized should be desig-

nated for use by a single employee, and it should not be shared.

Growers also may need to adjust transportation methods at the farm to maintain social distancing.

If possible, workers should refrain from driving personal vehicles to production areas.

If that is unavoidable, the farm needs to provide a designated parking area away from harvesting activities. All vehicles need to be cleaned and sanitized frequently.

Supervisors must continue to review and enforce proper hand-washing and educate workers on recognizing COVID-19 symptoms.

Finally, it is recommended that supervisors

and owners monitor and document the health of their workforce.

A daily health check could include ask ing workers prior to their shift if they are experiencing respiratory illness symptoms or using a touchless thermometer to take their temperature.

Supervisors should use PPE to limit the spread of COVID-19 if they are within 6 feet of employees during these health checks.

“Our best chance for having a healthy labor force to bring in the crops

Onions harvested by a farm employee. at harvest time is to start at the beginning of the season by aggressively managing and monitoring

the health of our workers,” said Scott Monroe, food safety extension educator for Purdue Extension.

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Wine Fest rescheduled for Oct. 17 INDIANAPOLIS — A favorite day of wine aficionados from throughout the Midwest has changed its traditional date, as well as its name.

The 21st annual Vintage Indiana Wine Festival has become Vintage Indiana — Harvest Festival for 2020 and will move from its usual first Saturday in June to Saturday, Oct. 17.

Military Park in Downtown Indianapolis remains the venue.

This signature event of the Purdue Wine Grape Team attracts well over 10,000 fans of wine, food, music and good times annually.

“A tremendous amount of planning goes into an event the size and scope of Vintage Indiana,” said Katie Barnett, Purdue Wine Grape Team marketing specialist.

“We’re two months out from the event right now and still grappling with so many uncertainties associated with the coronavirus pandemic. Instead of delaying a decision concerning Vintage, we believed it was in everyone’s best interest to take necessary steps now to make the move, hopefully to when this is behind us and we’re all ready to gather with family and friends at an event that’s beloved.”

As always, nearly 30 wineries will be on site in the park on Oct. 17 to sample more than 300 of their finest wines and sell bottles for take-home. Guests also will discover day-long music, numerous Indiana artisans’ booths and a wide variety of tasty foods to explore.

Tickets for Vintage Indiana — Harvest Festival are on sale now at VintageIndiana.com. Tickets purchased earlier will be honored for Oct. 17.

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When will things return to normal?

By Matilda Charles

Surely our world will be back to normal this summer ... right? Surely we’ll be able to get out of the house without fearing every person who comes near us.

We’ll be able to leisurely wander through the grocery store, which will be stocked as it used to be.

We’ll stop to talk to friends on the street and sit in coffee shops and chat.

We’ll attend church, go to our meetings, stroll through the neighborhood admiring the flowers and take part in our exercise classes.

Surely we’ll be able to do those things again, right?

Yes. We will.

But first we have to get there. To get back to where we used to be, we have to stay healthy now.

We need exercise to stay healthy. Even if you can’t go to a class, you can find plenty of them for seniors on YouTube.

Look through the offerings and bookmark a few.

Rotate through them on a daily basis so you don’t get bored.

Go to youtube.com and put “exercises for seniors” in the search box. Some of them are even broken down by age.

It’s been difficult to get grocery store deliveries in a lot of areas because they have little stock.

However, if you get delivery of your prescriptions — many pharmacies are providing this service now — call to ask whether they can add a few things to your order.

Many drugstores carry soups, crackers, milk, canned fruits and vegetables, bottled water and snacks. Some even carry a limited supply of fresh fruit. © 2020 King Features Synd., Inc.

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Print ‘roses in bloom’ with celery stalk stamp

NO-COOK EMERGENCY PANTRY RECIPES Whether you’ve been hit Overnight Oats: Mix rolled with lockdowns and quaroats with water and let sit antines, work and school overnight on a counter. In closures, bad weather or the morning, add peanut power outages, or you butter, raisins or other dried just need to stock your fruit, and a little cinnamon. pantry for the times you’re Power Bean and Grain Bowl unable to shop, here are or Wrap: Combine drained some ways to create an canned beans with a emergency pantry using pouch of precooked grains, canned goods as staples. drained canned corn, olive A typical emergency oil and any vegetables, pantry: herbs and spices you like. n Dried and/or evapoThis dish also makes a rated milk delicious filling for a wrap, n Pasta, rice, cereals, tortilla or pita bread. crackers Salmon or Tuna Stuffed n Jars of processed cheese Avocados: Combine chunks spread of canned salmon, tuna or n Granola bars, Pop Tarts Create a corn salad by combining drained canned corn with any canned smoked trout with vegetables you have on hand. n Canned fruits and vegchopped tomato and cuetables cumber. Toss with a dressperature changes occur. scratched or bulging. n Canned meats and fish ing of lemon juice or white Store metal cans off the Home-canned foods (chicken, ham, tuna) vinegar, olive oil, paprika, floor because moisture n Canned fruit, vegetable should only be made and salt and pepper. Stuff may lead to rust. using research-tested juices in avocado halves, use to procedures, equipn Always use the FIFO, or top lettuce greens or as a n Peanut butter ment and recipes from first-in, first-out, method n Canned bean, potato sandwich filling. sources such as the when it comes to taking salad Chunky Gazpacho: U.S. Department of foods from storage so that Combine a can of diced n Unsalted nuts Agriculture website. you are sure to use your n Canned baked beans tomatoes with the juice, Here are some tips for oldest cans first. If you n Canned chili, hash, spachopped onion, chopped creating and stocking an see that a can or jar has a cucumber, a little Tabasco ghetti, soup emergency pantry: broken seal or is rusting, n Dried fruits sauce or cayenne pepper, bulging or dented, discard and a dash of salt and n Choose foods your n Instant beverages it. If any food does not family enjoys. Good opn Baby food and formula pepper. You also can add tions include low-sodium look or smell right, throw chopped red or green (if needed) it out. canned beans, vegetaAdditional supplies: peppers if you have them. n Non-electric can opener bles, fruit packed in fruit n Keep at least six gallons Drizzle with olive oil and juice, breakfast cereal, of water per family memn Paper towels top with fresh parsley or cipeanut butter, pouches ber to be prepared for one lantro if available. To make n Foil of fully cooked whole week. Store water in airn Medications (prescripthis a heartier dish, add a tion and nonprescription) grains, nuts, whole-wheat tight, food-grade storage drained can of chickpeas. containers. Replace water that family uses on a regu- crackers and shelf-staCorn Salad: Combine ble milk or plant milk, every six months. lar basis drained canned corn the kind sold in aseptic Here are a few recipes n Paper goods (toilet with any vegetables you boxes in the grocery using ingredients that paper and tissues), naphave on hand — tomatoes, aisle. should be in every emerkins, plates, bowls, cups peppers and onions, for gency pantry — grains and example — chopped. Add n When buying canned n Plastic cutlery beans. Beans and grains foods, choose low-son Bar soap (if sanitizers drained canned black are nutrient dense, packed beans if you like. Toss dium or no-salt-added or liquid soaps are unwith protein, versatile and with a dressing made of products and choose available) are very filling. n Food and water for pets fruits packed in their 1 part apple cider vinegar These no-cook emerMany people have ques- own juice or water inand 1 part olive oil, fresh gency pantry recipes, stead of syrup. tions about selecting and or dried basil, and a little n Store canned goods in a courtesy of Trisha Calvo, storing canned goods. salt and pepper. a writer for Consumer cool, dark, dry area away First, start with a quality Reports, are simple and product. Choose cans that from furnaces, pipes and Angela Shelf Medearis is easy to prepare. other places where temare not rusted, dented, an award-winning children’s author, culinary historian and the author of seven cookbooks. © 2020 King Features LEGAL NOTICE Synd., Inc.

By Angela Shelf Medearis

NOTICE OF PROPOSED CLASS ACTION SETTLEMENT Hornbeck, et al. v. Orscheln Farm and Home, LLC, et al., Case Number 18-00941-cv-W-BP (W.D. Mo.).

By Donna Erickson

Earth Day, celebrated on April 22, is a good annual reminder to imagine creative ways to reuse what we typically throw away, even little things.

Here’s one that may lurk in the produce bin of your refrigerator: a celery-stalk rose just waiting to be revealed with some ink or fabric paint.

Curious? When you prep celery for your next recipe, cut through the stalk about 2 inches from the core end, grab that end in your hand and instead of tossing it into the compost bin, take a look at the rose-like pattern the stalks make nestled together.

Use it as a natural stamp — it’s an ideal size and shape for young children to hold — for printing artistic rose designs.

As you prep your printing station for this crafty idea, ponder all the things you can decorate.

Think Mother’s Day. Why not stamp rose prints all over tissue paper that will pop out of a gift bag for mom, grandmother or a special friend? She’ll be oohing and aahing over the “roses in bloom” before she even gets to the gift tucked inside.

Keep stamp, stamp, stamping the blooms on gift tags, lunch bags, placemats, a playroom wall.

You name it.

Here’s the stuff you’ll need for printing on tissue paper: n Celery stalk n Kitchen knife n Plain sheets of white or light-colored tissue paper n Acrylic paints or stamp inkpads in colors of your choice for roses and leaves n Paper plates, if using paints

The size of the celery base is easy for little hands to hold and the texture and print that’s left behind from the celery stalks makes it look like the petals of a flower.

n Markers for outlining the stamped shape (optional) Here’s the fun: First, make your celery stalk rose stamp. For a nice design, cut evenly through the entire stalk of celery, about 2 to 3 inches from the core end.

Wipe off moisture on the cut ends. For leaves, cut a 3-inch length from one of the celery ribs. Wipe off moisture on one cut end.

Pour a puddle of paint on a paper plate and lightly dip the cut end of the rose stamp in the paint, or press on an inkpad. Stamp onto tissue paper. Voila. C’est la rose, a clever design by nature Continue printing all over the tissue paper.

Embellish by dipping a cut rib in paint for leaves and stamp lightly around the “roses.” Let dry.

Use markers to outline and embellish the designs, if you wish.

To find more of Donna Erickson’s creative family recipes and activities, visit www.donnasday. com. © 2020 Donna Erickson distributed by King Features Synd.

READ THIS NOTICE CAREFULLY. YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS ARE AFFECTED WHETHER YOU ACT OR DO NOT ACT. A settlement has been reached in a class action lawsuit that alleges the following “303 Tractor Hydraulic Fluid Products”—CITGO-manufactured MileMaster 303 Tractor Hydraulic Fluid; CITGO-manufactured H-K 303 Tractor Transmission Hydraulic Fluid; Orscheln Premium 303 Tractor Hydraulic & Transmission Fluid; and/or CITGO-manufactured SuperTech 303 Tractor Hydraulic Oil—did not meet the equipment manufacturer specifications stated on the label. The Defendants deny they did anything wrong and state further that the labels were truthful and adequate. The Court has not decided who is right. Instead, the parties agreed to a proposed settlement to avoid the expense and risks of continuing the lawsuit.

You are Settlement Class Member if you have purchased, not for resale, one of the following products sold in the United States during the stated Class Period: Product MileMaster 303 MileMaster 303 MileMaster 303 H-K 303 H-K 303 Orscheln 303 SuperTech 303

Size 3/2 gal.

5 gal.

55 gal.

3/2 gal.

5 gal.

5 gal.

5 gal.

Start Class Period Jan. 23, 2017 May 25, 2013 May 25, 2013 May 25, 2013 May 25, 2013 Sept. 3, 2014 Feb. 17, 2016

End Class Period Present Present Present April 30, 2016 March 21, 2019 Aug. 16, 2017 Feb. 10, 2018

The settlement establishes a $18,825,000.00 “Class Settlement Fund” that will be paid to Settlement Class Members as: (1) cash awards of up to 100% of the purchase price paid for the 303 Tractor Hydraulic Fluid Products and (2) reimbursement for the costs of any repairs, parts, and specific equipment damage that a Settlement Class Member claims resulted from, in whole or in part, the use of the 303 Tractor Hydraulic Fluid Products during the Class Period. You may need to submit a Claim Form to receive your award, which can be obtained at www.303settlement.com or by calling 866-742-4955. The deadline to submit a Claim Form is August 31, 2020. Class Counsel will seek an incentive payment of $5,000.00 for each of the Class Representatives. Class Counsel will ask that the Court award up to $5,900,000.00 in attorneys’ fees and expenses. This amount will not be paid from the Class Settlement Fund.

If you do not want to be legally bound by the Settlement, you must exclude yourself from it by August 31, 2020. If you do not exclude yourself, you will not be able to sue Defendants for any claim relating to the lawsuit. If you remain a Settlement Class Member, you may object to the settlement by August 31, 2020. The Court will hold a hearing on October 13, 2020 to consider whether to approve the Settlement and a request for attorneys’ fees and expenses. This date may be moved, canceled, or otherwise modified; see www.303settlement.com for more information.

This notice only summarizes the proposed settlement. For additional information, including the precise terms and conditions of the Settlement, please see www.303settlement.com or call 866-742-4955.

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Statewide value unchanged for excellent quality farmland

By Tom C. Doran

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BLOOMINGTON, Ill. — Farmland values in the Prairie State remained stable through 2019 despite extreme swings in the commodity market.

The findings were released March 19 in the Illinois Society of Professional Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers annual farmland values survey.

“Farmland remains a stable, safe investment in volatile times as we’ve seen so recently. Our survey data shows the farmland price trends in the state continues to exhibit a stable pattern with little deviation from a year ago,” said David Klein, First Mid Ag Service vice president and Illinois Farmland Values Survey and Conference chair.

Survey details were delivered via a webinar after the annual conference was canceled.

“In our year-end survey we capture the sentiment of what appraisers and farmland real estate brokers believe they are seeing,” Klein continued.

The statewide average for excellent quality farmland from Jan. 1-Dec. 31, 2019, was unchanged at $10,500 per acre.

Good quality farmland sales averaged $8,600 per acre, down 1%.

The survey found the sales of average quality farmland from the beginning to the end of the year drop by 3% to $6,700 per acre. Fair farmland statewide averaged $5,200 per acre by year’s end, a 2% decline.

Excellent rated land has a productivity index of 133 and above; good rated land’s PI is 117 to 132; average, 100 to 116; and fair, less than 100.

The survey noted the general

trend indicated a stable market at year-end for high quality farmland. The central belt of Illinois seems to have the most consistent position of a stable-toslightly-higher farmland market.

Characteristics of farm sales in the data set for 2019 were slightly smaller in size and higher in quality compared to 2018. Challenges exist, especially in the northeastern part of the state and the lower quality soils in southern Illinois.

Settling estates was the top reason for selling farmland and estimated as the reason for the sale 58% of the time. This has been statistically the same for several years.

While estate sales are estimated to be 44% of the volume of farmland sold in 2019, active farmer selling was estimated at 10%, 7% higher than the 3% estimated in 2012 when farmland values were nearing their peak.

Farmers accounted for 59% of the farmland purchases made last year.

AROUND THE STATE Here are some of the survey findings by geographies.

Region 1 — Will, Kankakee, Kendall, Kane, DeKalb, Grundy, McHenry, LaSalle and Boone counties: Excellent quality farmland sales averaged $9,766 per acre, good sales averaged $8,023 per acre, average farmland was $6,334 per acre and fair at $4,821 per acre.

With current commodity prices and 2020 crop speculation, land values did not seem to reflect this less than ideal outlook. Over the entire Region 1, all land classes remained stable from the prior year with an average amount of land transactions.

Region 2 — Bureau, Carroll,

Stephenson, Jo Daviess, Whiteside, Lee, Ogle, Winnebago, Bureau, Henry and Mercer counties: The farmland market in the region showed a slight decline for excellent tracts while good and average tracts indicated a slight increase.

Fair quality tracts showed stable to slightly declining in 2019.

However, limited fair tract sales data makes it difficult to determine any definite changes in the market.

The median price per acre of all land classes was $8,977 in 2019 compared to $8,532 per acre in 2018. The number of sales in the region is steady when compared to 2018.

Region 3 — Stark, Peoria, Warren, Henderson, McDonough, Knox and Fulton counties: Excellent productivity land sales averaged $10,800 per acre, good land ranged from $8,000 to $8,500 per acre, average land sold in the $5,750 per acre range, fair farmland averaged $3,000 per acre and recreational lands $3,500 per acre.

Region 4 — Livingston, Woodford, McLean, Tazewell, Mason, Marshall and Putnam counties: Excellent productivity tracts sold averaged $10,514 per acre, good was $8,586, average was $6,981 per acre and fair — only 3 tracts — at $7,240.

Sales seemed to be steady throughout the year instead of concentrated at the beginning and end of the year as typically seen. Though the overall average was steady, similar land saw a variety of prices when located in different areas. This led to seeing more sales at both ends of the range for the given land classification.

Region 5 — Champaign, Douglas, Coles, Edgar, Vermilion, Iroquois and Ford counties: Farmland values

for excellent and good productivity were down 5.7% and 6%, respectively from the previous year, while average productivity land increased 15%.

Excellent productivity land sales ranged from $9,500 to $11,500 an acre, good was $7,000 to $9,000, average productivity was $5,000 to $7,000 and recreational was $3,500 to $4,500.

Region 6 — Macon, Logan, DeWitt, Piatt, Moultrie, Shelby and Christian counties: Values for excellent and fair productivity farmland sales were up slightly from the previous year and down slightly for good and average land.

The per acre sales for excellent rated farmland averaged $10,835, good was at $8,839, average farmland was $6,705 and fair $5,995.

Region 7 — Greene, Calhoun, Sangamon, Macoupin, Morgan, Scott, Montgomery, Cass and Jersey counties: Farmland values remained steady to up 2% to 4% in the region, but overall sales were down “quite heavily” during 2019 before picking up speed going into 2020.

The report notes excellent productivity tracts averaged $11,338 per acre, good land was $8,565 per acre, average farmland was $5,192 per acre and fair was at $5,406 on limited sales.

The lack of supply might have helped give certain types of lands the gains they saw.

Region 8 — Madison, Bond, St. Clair, Clinton, Washington, Monroe and Randolph counties: The region saw a broad range of prices across the board compared to the previous year. For example, excellent productivity land sales ranged from 17% lower to 6% higher.

Limited sales for excellent and good productivity farmland

averaged $12,780 and $10,080 per acre, respectively. Most of the region is made up of average productivity soil types and those sales averaged $7,486 per acre.

Fair land sales averaged $5,861 per acre.

Region 9 — Clark, Cumberland, Lawrence, Wabash, Edwards, Fayette, Effingham, Richland, Marion, Jasper, Crawford, Wayne and Clay counties: The overall trend for the farmland market in this region was steady year-overyear.

Typical per acre sales were noted as $8,350 for good productivity land, $7,000 for average, $4,800 for fair and $3,200 for recreational land. There were not sales of excellent productivity land in 2019.

Region 10 — Gallatin, Hamilton, Massac, Pulaski, Saline, White, Alexander, Franklin, Jackson, Jefferson, Williamson, Union, Johnson, Hardin, Perry and Pope counties: Good productivity land value increased 2% from 2018 with typical sales around $7,550 per acre. Year-over-year average productivity farmland sales ranged from a 10% increase to 3% decline, ranging from $4,450 to $7,500 per acre.

Fair productivity land typically sold in the $3,500 per acre range, a 3% decline from the previous year and recreational land sales of $2,800 per acre were up 4%.

Good productivity farmland transfers which are few in the region indicated values were unchanged or slightly up. The volume and acreage transferred were down.

Tom C. Doran can be reached at 815-780-7894 or tdoran@ agrinews-pubs.com. Follow him on Twitter at: @AgNews_ Doran.

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Many farmers are planting fields early to take advantage of increased yield potential. But early planting has its challenges.

Once corn is planted, the waiting game begins for moisture and heat to coax seeds into germination and emergence.

Corn seeds require adequate moisture and a soil temperature of 50 degrees or above to germinate and between 90 and 150

growing degree days to emerge from the soil.

If corn seeds are planted into Lakin cold soils that become saturated, emergence will likely be delayed or stopped entirely.

If cold, wet weather persists in Indiana, seedling emergence may be uneven, seedling vigor may be weakened, and diseases like Pythium, Rhizoctonia and Phytophthora root rot may colonize. Ultimately, these adverse conditions could cause the expected plant population to diminish.

When seedlings do finally break through the soil crust, your Channel Seedsman will conduct the Seedling Stage of the Field

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Knowing the state of the crop at this stage allows you to get a clear understanding of the yield potential of the emerged stand.

This stage is also an excellent time to scout for insect pressure, evaluate the effectiveness of your burndown or pre-plant weed control program and begin to make plans to fight weeds during the Vegetative Stage.

It’s important to keep a record of planting dates and note product names and maturity planted in all fields. This information will help establish the relationship between the estimated number of days needed to reach a growth stage in your planted corn products and GDD. Safe and timely applications of herbicides and fungicides are dependent on growth stage and help determine when additional fertilizer, like side-

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Purdue phenotyping facility named for Ag Alumni Seed WEST LAFAYET TE, Ind. — On April 2 the Purdue University Board of Trustees approved naming of the Ag Alumni Seed Controlled Environment Phenotyping Facility to recognize Ag A lumni Seed’s partnership with the College of Agriculture in expanding the breadth of plant research.

Ag Alumni Seed, a seed technology company specializing in hybrid popcorn, will fund a second growth chamber that will more than double the facility’s plant holding capacity.

The 7,300-square-foot phenotyping facility — open since February 2018 — complements Purdue’s field-based phenotyping capabilities by allowing a rapid, non-destructive alternative to exploring plant traits under precise

environmental control.

The original design included a 256-plant chamber with space allocated for a second chamber.

More space means researchers can increase the scope of their experiments and run experiments simultaneously that require different environmental conditions.

The current chamber controls light, temperature, humidity and monitors CO2 levels. The new growth chamber will come with CO2 enhancements, expanding these capabilities.

The feature will allow researchers to change CO2 levels as they take a more realistic and comprehensive look at potential climate change impacts.

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This program is a partnership between ISA, ICMC, ISDA, Purdue Extension county offices and local Soil and Water Conservation Districts.

The USDA grant will

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This funding will be used to provide farmer participants with soil health assessments, soil chemical tests and tissue samples in

the fields enrolled in tillage, cover crop or nutrient management trials.

Funding will provide enrollment into sustainability benchmarking tools such as Land O’Lakes, Truterra. Agronomic technical assistance and incentive payments to farmer

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MOLINE, Ill. — John Deere, in collaboration with the UAW, the Iowa Department of Homeland Security and the Illinois Manufacturers’ Association, announced it is producing protective face shields at John Deere Seeding Group in Moline.

Deere employees will initially produce 25,000 face shields to meet the immediate needs of healthcare workers in several of its U.S. manufacturing communities.

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John Deere Seeding Group employees are supporting the special project and are utilizing extensive and robust safety measures adopted across the company to safeguard employees.

“This is a very proud day for the UAW and our UAW members,” said Rory Gamble, UAW president. “I want to recognize the hard work that Secretary-Treasurer and Agriculture Implement Department Director Ray Curry and Region 4 Director Ron McInroy contributed to this effort.

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LICK CREEK, Ill. — A ndrew Ba n k s, who farms with his wife, Sarah Newman, at their 36-acre Five Hen Farm near Lick Creek, jokes that the state’s stay-at-home order and social distancing practices really haven’t changed his lifestyle.

“We already kind of lived in self isolation, and the day to day of the farm really hasn’t changed that much,” Banks said.

Banks and Newman started their farm journey with five Rhode Island Red hens and a chicken coop that was a Christmas gift in 2011 from Newman’s father. That small flock also became the namesake of their farm.

Today, they have 500 laying hens and raise about 3,500 broiler chickens, as well as turkeys, meat ducks and pastured pork.

T hose products are sold at farmers markets, at a store at their farm, through their online store and through the LEAF Food Hub, an online farmers market.

Farmers markets throughout the state closed after Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s stay-at-home order went into effect on March 21.

That was the first hurdle that Banks and Newman had to navigate.

“We were very dependent on farmers markets, and the winter market we were attending canceled their last three markets of the season,” Banks said.

While sales tend to drop off during the winter months, they quickly pick up as spring approaches.

The COVID-19-related closures and social distancing focus delayed a needed boost in sales.

“We were coming out of the winter a little bit low on cash, but needing to make our sales,” Banks said.

They decided to open up their on-farm store earlier, and they also saw a jump in their online sales, through their own online site, w w w.fivehenfarm. com, and through the LEAF Food Hub, an online farmers market that brings products from local farmers together on a single online store, where customers can make orders and then pick those orders up at various scheduled pickups in the Carbondale area.

“We have seen a pretty good response from the farm store, but we have seen about a 2,000% increase in online sales.

With LEAF and our online store, it has been a tremendous response by customers for our products,” Banks said.

He said they have been encouraged by that business and expect that some of those new customers may become regular customers even after the COVID-19 event passes.

“They may not have

shopped locally or much at all before all of this and now that they are, they realize the value of it, realize that they play a part in the food system and we hope to keep them as customers,” Banks said.

One lingering concern is how to move the massive supply of eggs they now have on hand. Banks and Newman supply eggs to some local restaurants, which closed due to COVID19.

“We are starting to get a little bit backed up on eggs. I feel like we will sell them, but if the shelter-inplace order stays and these restaurants don’t open back up, if that April 30 date gets moved back to May, then we will have to start deciding what to do.

The meat can stay frozen, but the eggs do have a shelf life,” Banks said.

Donating the extra supplies of eggs is an option for Banks.

“It’s important that we stay viable as a business, but it’s also important that we support the community that has supported us over the last five years,” he said.

SLAGEL FAMILY FARMS When it comes to the impact of restaurant closures on local meat producers, Louis John Slagel of Slagel Family Farm in rural Fairbury knows that pain. Slagel Family Farms beef, pork and poultry can be found on many well-known restaurants throughout Chicago.

With many of those restaurants closed or serving reduced menus on a curbside or takeout basis, Slagel has felt the pinch.

“We had been selling the products we raise to restaurants, so unfortunately that is not doing very well at the moment since most of the restaurants are closed,” Slagel said.

But in addition to the restaurant trade, Slagel diversified into selling product to local retail grocery stores and butcher shops, and several years ago, he purchased a butcher shop in nearby Forrest, Slagel Family Meats.

That side of the business has seen a huge jump in sales.

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Andrew Banks and Sarah Newman started their poultry and egg farm with five hens and a Christmas gift chicken coop. Now, in addition to son, Otto, and daughter, Maeve, they have 500 laying hens and will raise around 3,500 broiler chickens. ple of weeks and we sell to two different grocery stores and three different butcher shops and those have all been extremely busy the last few weeks, selling more retail product,” Slagel said.

Last fall, he started an online store — https:// sourcetotable.com — and that has seen a big increase in traffic.

“It was fairly slow in January, but we’ve seen a big jump in business.

We’ve been shipping product local, to Peoria and Chicago, but we also have been shipping to California, Nevada, New York, Michigan, through the website,” Slagel said.

He looks on those sales as a positive, despite the big hit from the lost restaurant business.

“Our total volume of sales has dropped a lot because our main customer base was restaurants, but if you want to try to find a bright side, the website is getting a lot more traffic,” he said.

Slagel’s family, his parents, brothers, sisters and sister-in-law, all work on the farm and in the butcher shop on different tasks. The farm produces beef, pork, lamb, goat, chicken, duck, rabbit, turkey and eggs.

One old custom that Slagel is seeing make a comeback is the practice of buying halves and quarters of beef and halves of pork to fill freezers.

“People are suddenly interested in buying quarters and halves of beef. It used to be a lot more popular 10, 20 years ago, and then as families got smaller, I feel like it became harder and harder to sell halves and quarters. We’ve had quite a few orders for quarters and halves of beef and halves of pork,” Slagel said.

WEST LAFAYET TE, Ind. — While people are stockpiling food and products dur ing the COVID-19 crisis, Purdue Un iver sit y Animal Sciences Professor Marisa Erasmus said one thing people shouldn’t stock up on is baby chicks.

Erasmus said people are buying up chicks with the intention of starting their own flocks so they can have eggs because they fear they will be a shortage of them.

Erasmus said she has talked to several people in the poultry industry and there is no shortage of eggs — everybody is just buying them from the store.

“While it sounds like a good idea to raise chicks, people need to do their homework,” Erasmus said.

Erasmus said that raising chicks from a few days of age until they are an adult hen that can lay eggs can take several

months.

Erasmus said if individuals are going to buy chicks and raise them for eggs and possibly meat, they need to know that there are several needs that egg-laying hens need to make sure they are healthy and safe.

“They need to be protected from predators, have enough space and get nutrition requirements,” Erasmus said.

Erasmus reiterated that if people do want to try and raise their own flock of chicks they really need to do their research, including checking city ordinances to see how many chicks are allowed in backyards and an action plan for what to do if their chickens get sick.

Erasmus said not all veterinarians treat poultry.

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We’re doing what needs to be done I have heard many people suggest that great lessons will be learned from the COVID19 pandemic. For many farmers and ranchers, the biggest change in their lives Rural Issues has less to do with physical or social Cyndi Young- distancing or the disease itself, but with Puyear the economic blows that came with it.

We would have to go back to early in the 20th century to find something comparable to what the world is experiencing today. The Spanish Flu pandemic lasted from January 1918 to December 1920, infecting more than 500 million people, which was nearly a third of the world’s population at the time.

More than 50 million people died; 675,000 of those deaths were in the United States.

Eva Vesta Covey, a young mother from west-central Illinois expecting her second child, died after caring for family members who were sick with the flu. She died on her daughter’s first birthday. Her daughter was my mom’s mother.

Walking through the family cemetery on my dad’s side in rural Scott County, Illinois, it is sad to see that family members died days apart from one another. Mothers, fathers, their children — all gone within a week.

Although there are great similarities to today’s pandemic and the flu of 1918, there are also great differences. One hundred years ago, most of the people in this country lived on a farm or in a rural community.

There was no 24-hour news cycle.

There was no electricity or indoor plumbing. There were no antibiotics to treat secondary infections caused by the flu.

Despair is a word I’ve heard used frequently to describe the current environment in many communities.

Deemed non-essential, many small, local businesses have been shuttered to prevent people from coming into close contact with one another.

Some dairy farmers are being forced to dump milk because schools, restaurants and other food service outlets are either closed or have much less need for milk than they did three weeks ago.

It’s difficult to see that happening and hard to explain to the consumer, knowing that shoppers in some areas are limited to purchasing one or two gallons of milk per family because that supplier cannot keep up with demand.

With only four major beef and pork packers in the country, when they have to close down plants due to the pandemic, cattle and hog prices drop and producers are forced to make the tough decision of whether to hang on in hopes for better prices or sell at a loss. The first loss is supposed to be the least loss, right? In recent days, several local auction barns have stopped holding sales altogether.

There are many uncertainties for farmers putting the 2020 crop into the ground.

I’m certain there was more than enough despair to go around during the flu of 1918 pandemic. There were great losses. There was great sadness. But it did end.

Although we don’t know when, we do know that the COVID-19 pandemic will end. When it does end, I hope we have a better appreciation for those local businesses that make it through. I hope we step back and evaluate milk and meat processing in this country and see the need and support more local and regional facilities. I hope we come out healthy.

I hope we do what needs to be done so we — or the generations that come after us — are much better prepared to handle an event of this magnitude when it happens again.

Cyndi Young-Puyear is farm director and operations manager for Brownfield Network.

Rural America invented social distancing There’s a brittle beauty to this year’s spring.

Amid the swaying daffodils, cotton clouds and already roaring tractors and dust-shaking planters hides a deadly virus with a special fondness for those of us in rural Farm & Food America.

In fact, rural America File is perfectly primed for COVID-19, according to Alan Guebert any epidemiologist worth their student loans. The virus finds its weakest, best targets in elderly Americans with “co-morbidity” factors like diabetes or heart disease.

That’s us.

“Less than 14% of the nation’s population is over 65 years,” noted Megan L. Srinivas in the April 7 Des Moines Register, “but this group represents over 18% of the population in rural areas.”

Those numbers, explains Srinivas, “an infectious disease doctor living in rural Iowa,” have her “terrified… and shaken.”

The reason is simple; she knows the dark math behind them.

For example, if rural Iowa or rural anywhere gets hit by COVID-19 as hard as New York or Chicago, it will be more lethal because while rural America is home to 20% of all Americans, it contains only 9% of the nation’s hospitals, 2% of its hospital beds and 1% of its intensive care beds.

The American Farm Bureau’s official mission statement is something that all of us in Farm Bureau are proud of and work hard to honor. Every word of it is important.

However, you could paraphrase our mission Zippy Duvall statement with just four words: help everyone in agriculture — emphasis American Farm Bureau on “everyone.”

While that statement is short and simple, carrying it out isn’t always easy. Working for all types of agriculture across the country is a challenge that we gladly accept and, I believe, meet, each and every day.

As we deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, we’re mindful of the need to ensure that all sectors of agriculture are included in coronavirus assistance measures.

A good start was made when Congress authorized $9.5 billion for U.S. Department of Agriculture to help specialty crop, livestock and other producers, in addition to the $14 billion authorized to help other crop producers under the Commodity Credit Corp.

Now it’s time for USDA to get that assistance into the hands of farmers and ranchers. We commend the department for its efforts so far to support American agriculture. The sooner we have a timeline for getting this new assistance out, the better.

Farm Bureau has a unique advantage in that we have organizations in every state and almost every county. After extensive

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outreach to Farm Bureau leaders around the country, the American Farm Bureau sent a comprehensive letter to Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue to relay what we’re hearing from farmers and ranchers.

They need help in order to continue putting food on Americans’ tables.

Most of us have seen the pictures of milk being dumped as co-ops and processors cope with a sharp decline in demand from food service companies and schools.

Our letter outlined several steps we are recommending to support dairy farmers, including direct payments, government dairy buys, an indemnity program for producers who have had to dump milk or otherwise forgo compensation and other actions.

We are also assisting state Farm Bureaus in getting word out to producers that dumping milk can have significant environmental repercussions. Producers need to comply with the law if they are forced into this position.

As futures prices for hogs and cattle plummet and poultry producers hear that processors are cutting supplies of live birds, we are recommending that USDA create a special direct payment for livestock and poultry producers, consider purchases for distribution in nutrition assistance programs and monitor the markets to guard against price manipulation.

We’re also advising that catfish, crawfish and aquaculture producers be eligible for assistance, as 60% of their sales comes from restaurants that are now largely closed.

We’ve been working for weeks to

address the labor demands in fruit and vegetable production and ensure government agencies provide maximum accessibility to the agricultural workforce.

But now we’re seeing dumping of fresh zucchini and other produce due to school and restaurant closures.

USDA purchases would help stabilize the fresh producer sector. We’ve also asked USDA to ensure that payments for specialty crop growers get to all producers experiencing impacts, regardless of farm size.

Other agricultural sectors also are hurting. Cotton growers have seen their price fall to its lowest point in more than a decade. Ethanol and biofuel demand has crashed as we all drive less, putting a serious dent in the price of corn and wrecking the supply of distillers dried grains as a cost-efficient source of animal feed.

Other sectors that are affected and need relief include forage crops, nurseries and greenhouses, specialty livestock and equine, tobacco, craft beverage producers and wineries, farmers who depend on farmers markets that are no longer operating, livestock producers whose auctions have been canceled, producers in hydroponics, aquaponics and other indoor production — the list is long.

We’ve worked hard to make sure that we are representing all sectors and helping everyone in agriculture.

Zippy Duvall, a poultry, cattle and hay producer from Georgia, is the president of the American Farm Bureau Federation.

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In tough times, I sometimes think about my all-time favorite movies. Lately, I’ve been thinking about “Smokey and the Bandit.” The theme song particularly sticks in my mind: “We’ve got a long way to go and a short time to get there.”

I think that line pretty much says where we are in today’s dairy industry. We are facing troubles that no one ever thought possible, and we are not fully ready to deal with whatever comes our way.

What we know is coming is bad enough. What we don’t know, or can’t imagine, is even more frightening.

As I look ahead to the coming weeks and months, I see at least three problems that will challenge us all.

First, the workforce at processing plants and for our larger dairies is at risk. An outbreak of COVID-19 at one of these places will be terribly disruptive locally and could well cause problems on a regional level.

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ball rolls into rural America, its growing size will minimize news of other critically important choices that require rural input and monitoring. For instance, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue is sitting on a $50-billion mountain of bailout money for… whom? How? When?

Now would be a good time to have the expert advice from the more than 200 ag economists who left USDA’s Economic Research Service after Perdue ordered most out of Washington, D.C., in 2019.

Since then, according to Politico, “only 41 out of 233 (ERS) positions” vacated under Perdue’s purge had been filled by mid-January.

Given its recent history, there’s little evidence to believe USDA will do better with fewer experts as one of the most wide-sweeping, most deadly health and economic calamities slices through rural America like a scythe.

And, of course, all of this is doubly harsh and demoralizing as it hits farms, ranches and rural communities at the height of planting, calving and school field trips, proms and graduations.

But we rural Americans know how to defeat this. We must stay smart, stay safe and stay home. In short, social distancing.

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And that’s the good news.

The bad news is the numbers get worse. Iowa, for example, “has only 280 ventilators for its more than 3 million residents.” If current predictions hold, “… up to 150,000 Iowans may need those mere 280 ventilators over the next 18 months.”

Note she said months, not weeks.

Age isn’t the only sweet spot in rural America for COVID-19. We country dwellers are poorer than our metro counterparts and many of our jobs — whether well-paying, average or minimum wage in schools, pubs, restaurants, or grain elevators — are now gone, going, or facing cutbacks in paid hours.

That means a higher percentage of rural Americans will face difficult months, even years, ahead in paying for housing, food and, Lord have mercy, lifeand-death healthcare choices.

And don’t believe the blowhards who claim our open spaces and thin population will provide a protective buffer to keep farm and ranch communities safe. It won’t.

In fact, “8 in 10 U.S. counties “are under lockdown orders,” the Wall Street Journal reported April 6. “They represent nearly 96% of the national output.”

A day later, the New York Times reported that America’s countryside was on the same path the newspaper’s hometown was a month ago: “This week, the case rate in rural areas was more than double it was six days before.”

Equally troubling is that as this snow-

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Second, plants are seeing demand turn on a dime as restaurants close. A plant set up to serve the restaurant trade cannot always easily switch to provide products suitable for grocery stores to sell.

Third, smaller dairy farms are less vulnerable to labor disruptions, but they are leaving our industry at an alarming rate.

While labor issues hang over our larger farms, market issues threaten smaller ones.

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Here there is some good news. We have a Federal Milk Marketing Order system that has been working for decades to, among other things, assure the orderly marketing of milk. More than ever, orderly marketing in a time of potential chaos is what we need.

The FMMO system has two problems, however, that must be addressed before it can fully do its job. First, the system is now a patchwork of regional orders that does not cover the whole country.

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Market data Downward spiral in FOR WEEK ENDING APRIL 10, 2020

Futures Prices This Last This

week week Chg. week CATTLE HOGS APR 20 94.00 88.32 5.68 APR 20 42.80 JUN 20 84.37 80.85 3.52 MAY 20 43.42 AUG 20 90.75 84.30 6.45 JUN 20 48.67 OCT 20 96.65 88.50 8.15 JUL 20 54.75 DEC 20 100.30 92.35 7.95 AUG 20 57.00 FEB 21 104.27 97.02 7.25 OCT 20 52.27

Last week Chg. 40.22 41.22 48.32 52.72 54.57 49.77

2.58 2.20 0.35 2.03 2.43 2.50

MILK CLASS III APR 20 13.56 MAY 20 11.43 JUN 20 12.82 JUL 20 14.49 AUG 20 15.64 SEP 20 15.89

14.07 12.18 13.13 14.08 14.62 14.91

-0.51 -0.75 -0.31 0.41 1.02 0.98

CORN SOYBEANS MAY 20 3316 3306 10 MAY 20 8634 JUL 20 3366 3366 0 JUL 20 8710 SEP 20 3416 3422 -6 AUG 20 8734 DEC 20 3506 3506 0 SEP 20 8722 MAR 21 3622 3620 2 NOV 20 8756 MAY 21 3690 3682 8 JAN 21 8786

8542 8594 8620 8604 8614 8624

92 116 114 118 142 162

CHICAGO WHEAT MAY 20 5564 5492 72 JUL 20 5574 5450 124 SEP 20 5612 5470 142 DEC 20 5676 5542 134 MAR 21 5724 5600 124 MAY 21 5726 5580 146

K.C. WHEAT MAY 20 4920 JUL 20 4990 SEP 20 5056 DEC 20 5154 MAR 21 5242 MAY 21 5304

4720 4784 4864 4994 5102 5170

200 206 192 160 140 134

BRENT CRUDE OIL JUN 20 31.48 34.11 -2.63 JUL 20 34.18 35.48 -1.03 AUG 20 35.66 36.39 -0.73 SEP 20 36.66 37.02 -0.36 OCT 20 37.44 37.49 -0.05 NOV 20 38.00 37.83 0.17

ETHANOL MAY 20 JUN 20 JUL 20 AUG 20 SEP 20 OCT 20

0.864 0.907 0.910 0.910 0.910 0.910

0.074 0.062 0.062 0.062 0.062 0.062

FEEDER CATTLE APR 20 119.52 MAY 20 118.95 AUG 20 128.87 SEP 20 129.37 OCT 20 129.90 NOV 20 129.95

108.25 108.10 114.42 115.80 116.90 117.55

11.27 10.85 14.45 13.57 13.00 12.40

0.938 0.969 0.972 0.972 0.972 0.972

Stocks of Agricultural Interest

This Last 52-wk week week high

This Last 52-wk week week high

ADM 37.58 34.65 47.20 Corteva 27.93 22.62 32.78 AGCO 52.10 43.50 81.39 Dupont 40.78 31.87 83.72 BASF 12.95 10.95 20.98 Deere 145.75 135.52 181.99 Bunge 40.83 37.17 59.65 FMC 90.00 70.88 108.77 CF 31.01 25.77 55.15 Mosaic 12.97 9.94 28.01

Export Inspections (MIL BU.) This Year Cumulative Cumulative Cml.

week ago this year year ago % diff.

WHEAT 320.371 556.180 20802.89 19407.084 7.19 CORN 1271.481 1062.381 19334.20 30742.386 -37.11 SOYBEANS 298.124 888.772 31893.42 30168.723 5.72

Livestock Summary % diff.

This Last Year week year

week week ago ago ago Hog Slaughter-est 11000 HD 2407 2565 2393 -6.16 0.59 Cattle slaughter-est 1000 HD 536 626 638 -14.38 -15.99 MEAT PRICES This week Last week Change Pork Cutout Bellies Loins Hams Yld Gr 3 Choice Beef Select Beef 5-Mkt Fed Cattle Live 5-Mkt Fed Cattle Carcass

60.72 -8.79 51.93 29.12 33.50 -4.38 89.46 96.45 -6.99 37.42 36.33 1.09 224.39 231.95 -7.56 207.53 221.01 -13.48 105.00 111.08 -6.08 168.00 178.78 -10.78

OKLAHOMA CITY This week Last week Change FEEDER STEER Low High Low High Low High 4-5 Wt Mf 1’S 5-6 Wt Mf 1’S 6-7 Wt Mf 1’S 7-8 Wt Mf 1’S 8-10 Wt Mf 1’S

143.00 171.00 149.75 175.00 -6.75 -4.00 122.50 151.00 125.00 171.00 -2.50 -20.00 119.00 137.75 114.00 146.00 5.00 -8.25 105.50 123.50 101.50 130.50 4.00 -7.00 92.50 111.50 100.00 129.75 -7.50 -18.25

CASH HOGS, CARCASS PRICES, WEIGHTED AVERAGE BASE PRICE This week Last week Change National

39.03 42.83 -3.80

Eastern Corn Belt Direct Feeder Cattle Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Kentucky and Ohio Reported sales this week, 834; last week, 0; last year, 423.

Demand light. Supply included 100% over 600 pounds, 78% heifers.

Feeder Steers Medium, Large 1-2

Avg. Avg. Delivery Head Wt. Price (FOB) 58 860 102.00 Current Feeder Heifers Medium, Large 1 330 725 103.20 Current

Feeder Heifers Medium, Large 1-2

Avg. Avg. Delivery Head Wt. Price (FOB) 65 750 99.00 Current 67 725 89.60 May 334 725 92.10 Jun

USDA National Grain Market Review Compared to last week, cash bids for wheat and soybeans were higher; corn was mixed For the week ending April 2, an increase of 72.8 million bushels of corn export sales for 2019-20 were reported, with an increase of 19.2 million bushels of soybean exports sales, and an increase of 9.5 million bushels of wheat export sales. Sorghum export sales showed an increase of 14.7 million bushels.

Ethanol production for the week ending April 2 reported a decrease of 168,000 barrels per day to 0.672 million barrels a day. Ethanol stocks increased 1.4 million barrels at 27.1 million barrels.

Wheat was steady to 28 cents higher. Corn was 6 3/4 cents lower to 3 cents higher. Sorghum was 3 to 11 cents lower. Soybeans were 2 3/4 cents higher to 6 3/4 cents higher.

CORN Kansas City US No 2 truck Yellow Corn was 1 3/4 cents lower from 3.26 3/4-3.31 3/4 per bushel.

Omaha US No 2 Yellow Corn was 2 to 3 cents higher from 3.09-3.17 per bushel.

Chicago US No 2 Yellow Corn was 1 3/4 cents lower from 3.31 3/4-3.37 3/4 per bushel.

Toledo US No 2 rail Yellow corn was 6 3/4 cents lower at 3.21 3/4 per bushel Minneapolis US No 2 Yellow corn rail was 3 3/4 cents lower at 3.05 3/4 per bushel.

OILSEEDS Minneapolis Yellow truck soybeans were 2 3/4 cents higher at

8.39 1/2 per bushel.

Illinois Processors US No 1 Yellow truck soybeans were 4 3/4 to 6 3/4 cents higher from 8.68 1/2-8.78 1/2 per bushel.

Kansas City US No 2 Yellow truck soybeans were 4 3/4 cents higher from 8.43 1/2-8.58 1/2 per bushel.

Illinois 48 percent soybean meal, processor rail bid was 16.60 lower from 292.50-295.50 per bushel.

Central Illinois Crude Soybean oil processor bid was 1.17 higher from 26.81-27.66 per cwt.

WHEAT Kansas City US No 1 Hard Red Winter, ordinary protein rail bid was 28 cents higher from 5.775.87 per bushel.

St. Louis truck US No 2 Soft Red Winter terminal bid was 15 cents higher at 5.72 per bushel.

Minneapolis and Duluth US No 1 Dark Northern Spring, 14.0 to 14.5 percent protein rail, was 3 1/2 to 8 1/2 cents higher from 6.32 1/2-6.47 1/2 per bushel.

Portland US Soft White wheat rail was steady to 5 cents higher from 6.05-6.10 per bushel.

SORGHUM US No 2 yellow truck, Kansas City was 3 to 4 cents lower from 5.92-6.46 per cwt. Texas High Plains US No 2 yellow sorghum (prices paid or bid to the farmer, fob elevator) was 4 to 11 cents lower from 5.21-5.83 per cwt.

OATS US 2 or Better oats, rail bid to arrive at Minneapolis 20 day was 10 1/4 cents higher from 2.74 1/4-3.44 1/4 per bushel.

Futures Prices compiled by faculty and staff of the Ag Economics Department at the University of Missouri. Direct Feeder Catttle from USDA Dept of Ag Market News, Oklahoma City. Grain Market Review from USDA Dept of Ag Market News, St. Joseph, Missouri.

crop, livestock prices American Farm Bureau analysis

WA SH I NG T ON — Updated analysis by the American Farm Bureau Federation shows crop and livestock prices falling to levels that threaten the livelihoods of many U.S. farmers and ranchers.

Shuttered schools, universities, restaurants, bars and cafeterias are no longer buying milk, meat, fruits, vegetables and other food, causing a downward spiral in crop and livestock prices.

Futures prices for nearly all the major crops have dropped by double-digit percent a ge s.

P u shed down by a 40% plunge in ethanol prices, corn prices have fallen 15%.

Soybean prices are down 10%, while the price for cotton, which is heavily dependent on foreign manufacturing capacity,

sank nearly 30%. Buoyed by demand in the United States and China, wheat prices have declined only 3%.

On the livestock front, since the beginning of the year, both beef and pork futures prices have declined more than 30%.

Milk futures prices have also fallen sharply, with the price for milk used to make cheese down 28% and the price for milk used to make nonfat dry milk falling by 34%.

“The resilience of farmers and ranchers has been nothing short of stunning, but we must not take for granted their ability to hold on with prices spiraling, taking all hope of breaking even with them,” said A FBF P resident Zippy Duvall.

“I stand by my assurance that our food supply remains strong, but America will have fewer farms and ranches supplying it unless USDA acts

quickly to deliver aid and our economy is released from the grips of this pandemic soon.”

The drop in demand is pushing the prices farmers would get paid for their crops to lows that may make it very difficult for them to justify putting another crop in the ground this spring, said John Newton, AFBF chief economist.

“While the whole country is optimistic there is an end in sight, the question of when the economy will be healthy again is fueling further market uncertainty,” Newton said.

“It’s worth noting that these prices are in no way tied to what shoppers pay in the grocery store. There are a lot of hands through which these commodities pass from the farm to the fork, so a drop in prices paid to farmers very rarely, if ever, translates into lower consumer prices immediately.”

USDA extends loan maturity WA SH I NGT ON — Agricultural producers now have more time to repay Marketing Assistance Loans as part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s implementation of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act of 2020. The loans now mature at 12 months rather than nine, and this flexibility is available for most commodities.

“Spring is the season when most producers have the biggest need for capital, and many may have or are considering putting commodities under loan. Extending the commodity loan maturity affords farmers more time to market their commodity and repay their loan at a later time,” said U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue. “We are extremely pleased that

USDA can offer these marketing flexibilities at this critical time for the agriculture industry and the nation.”

Effective immediately, producers of eligible commodities now have up to 12 months to repay their commodity loans. The maturity extension applies to nonrecourse loans for crop years 2018, 2019 and 2020.

Eligible open loans must in good standing with a maturity date of March 31, 2020, or later or new crop year — 2019 or 2020 — loans requested

by Sept. 30, 2020. All new loans requested by Sept.

30 will have a maturity date 12 months following the date of approval.

The maturity extension for current, active loans will be automatically extended an additional three months. Loans that

matured March 31 have already been automatically extended by USDA’s Farm Service Agency.

Producers who prefer a nine-month loan will need to contact their local FSA county office. Loans requested after Sept. 30 will have a term of nine months.

Eligible commodities include barley, small and large chickpeas, corn, upland and extra-long staple cotton, dry peas, grain sorghum, honey, lentils, mohair, oats, peanuts, long and medium grain rice, soybeans, unshorn pelts, wheat, graded and nongraded wool and other oilseeds, including canola, crambe, flaxseed, mustard seed, rapeseed, safflower, sunflower seed and sesame seed. Seed cotton and sugar are not eligible.

Job loss leads to collapsing demand and hospitality The most sector of the recent Labor economy, which Department accounts for 67% employment of the total U.S. report was stoneGross Domestic cold bearish for Product. the economy.

The agriculture Unfortunately, sector of the U.S. the data was gathered before Commodity economy was already hit hard by stay-at-home Insight the Trump trade orders were imwar with China plemented across Jerry Welch that began in the nation due 2018 with tariffs to coronavirus.

Thus, the next jobs report and other trade barriers.

It was not until January is likely to bring even 2020 that the United more bad news.

States and China signed The report this week an agreement to end the showed a loss of 701,000 war. jobs. However, those apBut in late January, the plying for unemployment benefits rose a staggering first case of coronavirus 10 million in just the past surfaced in the state of Washington, and within two weeks. the blink of an eye, it According to the became a national and New York Times, “the global pandemic, impactdecline in employment ing every economy on the last month was the bigglobe. gest monthly drop since Business Insider comthe depths of the Great mented on the jobs report Recession in 2008-2009.

It was paced by a net loss with a few terse statements: of 459,000 jobs in the “The report surprised leisure and hospitality economists as it showed sector.” that the U.S. economy Those in agriculture lost 701,000 jobs last should understand that month compared to the the leisure and hospitality sector of the economy 100,000 expected.”

“The report also includes, hotels, restaudidn’t include the last rants, entertainment, two weeks of the month sporting events, cruises and other tourism-related in which 10 million Americans filed for unservices.

The dramatic job losses employment insurance.”

“The report was disled to collapsing demand, mal and showed that which in turn sent cattle economic pain stemming and hog futures, leading indicators for cash cattle from the coronavirus started even earlier than and cash hog prices, to people expected.”

10- and 18-year lows, reNo doubt, U.S. agrispectively. culture is and has been In addition, the CRB under an enormous index, weighted towards amount of financial stress grain and livestock and long before coroprices, fell to a 21-year low. The Goldman Sachs navirus reared its ugly head. The farm crisis of commodity index and the 1980s was bad, but crude oil hit an 18-year the situation today is far low. worse.

The pandemic associThe crisis in the 1980s ated with coronavirus began because record created stay-at-home orders, which in turn has ag production, or supplies, arrived just before devastated the leisure

exports, or demand, collapsed due a grain embargo against Russia.

It was a combination of burdensome supplies and lack of demand that led to the farm crisis — which, of course, is similar to what we are facing today.

In my column last week, entitled “Unprecedented Times,” I posted a quote from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Here it is again: “As of now, disruptions are minimal as food supplies have been adequate. But price spikes are more likely for higher value products like meat and perishable commodities rather than for major staples which are still in adequate supply.”

All my work suggests loudly the FAO is right about food supplies and the potential for price spikes while the globe is in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.

And why, you ask, do I expect price spikes for meat and perishable commodities while all other markets are cratering?

Because in 2008 to 2010 when the Fed embarked on a stimulus package called QE1, the money was dumped into the financial markets sending the bond and stock markets dramatically higher.

The current Fed stimulus package due to coronavirus is targeted to help individuals and families that will spend the money on basics such as meat and perishable commodities before all else.

The huge coronavirus stimulus package initiated by the Fed is going into the hands of people and families, not financial institutions. History shows that such a policy should lead to bouts of stagflation or inflation for foodstuffs with prices spiking higher at various times.

Ag Economy Barometer Sept. 2019

121

Oct. 2019

136

Nov. 2019

153

Dec. 2019

150

Jan. 2020

167

Feb.2020

168

March 2020 121 Source: Purdue/CME Group

Farmer sentiment plummets WEST LAFAYET TE, Ind. — The Purdue University/CME Group Ag Economy Barometer recorded its largest onemonth drop in sentiment during March.

The barometer dipped 47 points to a reading of 121, as concerns over the impact of the global pandemic on the agricultural economy weighed heavily on farmers’ minds.

The Ag Economy Barometer is based on a midmonth survey of 400 U.S. agricultural producers and was conducted March 16-20 as the coronavirus crisis escalated in the United States and around the world.

Both the Index of Current Conditions and Index of Future Expectations also recorded their largest one-month declines.

Farmer sentiment regarding current conditions fell 43 points to a reading of 111 and future expectations fell 49 points to a reading of 126.

Collectively, this month’s decline in the barometer and its sub-indices pushed the index down to levels last seen in September 2019, when weak commodity prices and an unresolved trade dispute left many farmers concerned over their financial futures.

“First and foremost, the U.S. farmers we surveyed said they were concerned about how the coronavirus will impact their farms in 2020 leaving little doubt that it was the leading driver for this month’s drop in sentiment,” said James Mintert, the barometer’s principal investigator and director of Purdue University’s Center for Commercial Agriculture.

Stockment joins Hoosier Ag Today ZIONSVILLE, Ind. — Hoosier Ag Today welcomed Kim Stockment to its team. Stockment will be managing local and regional sales activities for HAT and its sister network Michigan Ag Today.

She Stockment will be working closely with agribusinesses and organizations to help them deliver their messages and information to the Indiana and Michigan farm communities via their extensive radio and digital networks.

An alum of Purdue College of Agriculture, Stockment has most recently worked for Purdue Online as the program administrator for the program support team. She also has experience as a conference coordinator and event planner.

“I am excited to join the team at Hoosier Ag Today.

My passion for agriculture is part of who I am. I grew up on a row crop operation in northwest Indiana, and my greatest pleasure is seeing my kids’ faces light up when we get to help out on the farm. I am a 10-year 4-H member and served the Indiana FFA as state president in 20002001,” Stockment said.

Stockment is a volunteer with her local FFA and 4-H chapters and lives with her husband and three children in Brookston.

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