Something to Watch
One of the projects we were working on this summer was our videos talking about SCIS and who we are. »
New Insurance Products and Sorghum Update
John Duff talks with Tony St. James about farm policy, new crop insurance products, DOE investments in sorghum and sorghum exports at the Southwest Beef Symposium in Roswell, NM. The full interview can be found here. Advantages for Sorghum in the 2014 »
Sorghum makes comeback
Exceeding expectations is now an annual occurrence for U.S. sorghum producers. Since the drought of 2011-12, each year means another record broken or another challenge overcome. This progression is nothing new for an industry often thought of as on the brink »
Ethanol use boosts sorghum demand
Ethanol plants used 145 million bushels of a 597 million-bushel sorghum crop during the 2015/16 marketing year. This record utilization followed the previous year in which ethanol plants, unable to compete with extraordinary Chinese demand, used only 15 million bushels of »
Profitable Opportunities Exist if Producers Know Costs and Watch for Rallies
Since July 1, 2015, the December 2016 corn contract has traded at or above $4.40 per bushel on 15 different trading days. For producers, these rallies represent a window during which they could have sold 2016 sorghum or corn at a »
With insurance, let program do math
In 2007, the U.S. Department of Agriculture Risk Management Agency (RMA) rolled out a pilot crop insurance program in the rolling plains surrounding Abilene, Texas. The pasture, rangeland, forage (PRF) program as it has come to be known insures against a »
