Now Available at Your University Extension Center Federal Agricultural Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 FAIR Sign-up . . . Generally an Easy Decision An Editorial Comment on FAIR . . . Information Ag Connection is published monthly for Central Missouri Region producers and is supported by University Extension, the Commercial Agriculture program, the Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station and the College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, UM-Columbia. To send a message to an author, click on the author's name at the end of an article. But making money at these prices requires selling at these prices.
Many producers are typically reluctant to make early sales of a growing crop.
There are always risks of selling too early and this year is no different. No one is sure how much they or anyone else will actually produce. Prices are good, but new crop corn is discounted considerably when compared with the old crop prices. There are also risks of waiting too long to make sales. Prices may have over reacted to the high side in order to ration demand.