Time to plan for 2016!

Jan 12, 2016

Focus on efficiency, productivity, profitability with precision agriculture

If you are looking for ideas on ways to farm smarter or more efficiently, the 2016 Farms.com Precision Agriculture Conference and Ag Technology Showcase may help you to learn how to make adjustments to your existing farm plan, so that you can be more efficient, more productive, and more profitable in 2016 and beyond.

senseFLy eBee Drone, Ag Business & Crop Inc.

senseFLy eBee Drone, Ag Business & Crop Inc.

Where else can you investigate cool technology like UAVs and laser technology for soil sampling, as well as attend strategic sessions geared to provide you with information to fine tune your farm, and network with like-minded farmers and precision agriculture experts. Interested in learning how to get all of the yield potential out of your planning? Or learning what the three keys to higher yields are?

The Precision Agriculture Conference also features a number of exhibitors, so that you can easily check out precision agriculture products and services available to farmers in southwestern Ontario. These companies include: 360 Yield Center, A & L Laboratories, Affinity Management, Ag Business & Crop Inc., Apline Solutions , Delta Power Equipment, Deveron UAS, Devolder Farms, Farmers Edge, Farm Credit Canada, GPS Ontario Hensall District Co-op, Huron Tractor, LaserAg Inc., Practical Precision, Premier Equipment, PRIDE Seeds, Scotia Bank, SGS Agri-Food Laboratories, Shea Ag, Stoltz Sales & Service, Stratford Agri Analysis, Stratford Farm Equipment, Unmanned Systems Canada, Weather Decision Technologies – Skywise, WinField Solutions and XS Inc.

Speakers include international experts such as Expert & Data Strategy Consultant Lisa Prassack, soil agronomy expert Jacques Nault of LaserAg, precision ag analysis and reporting expert Ben Gist of XS Inc., and Professional Agrologist and a Certified Agricultural Consultant Robert Saik, Founder of The Agri-Trend® Group of Companies.

Early Bird registration has been extended to January 17, so register now before it is too late:

http://www.farms.com/photo-gallery/precision-ag-conference-registration.aspx

And don’t forget to book your hotel room by January 15, 2016 to ensure special conference rates

For more information about the 2016 Farms.com Precision Agriculture Conference and Technology Showcase:

http://www.farms.com/precision-agriculture/conference-2016/

Video: Is China Buying US Soybeans + USDA Nov 14th Crop Report could be “Game Changing”

After a week of a U.S./China trade truce, markets/trade is skeptical that we have not seen a signed agreement nor heard much from China or seen any details. There are rumors that China is buying soybean futures & not the physical. Trust in Trump?
12 MMT of U.S. soybean purchases by China by year-end is better than 0 but we all need to give it more time and give it a chance to unfold. China did lower the tariffs on Ag and is buying U.S. wheat and sorghum.
U.S. supreme court could rule against Trumps tariffs, but the Trump administration does have a plan B.
U.S. government shutdown is now the longest in history at 38 days.
But despite a U.S. government shutdown we will be getting a USDA November crop report next Friday and it could be “game changing.” If the USDA provides a bullish surprise with lower U.S. corn and soybean yields and ending stocks that are lower than expected both corn and soybean futures will break out above their ceilings at $4.35/bu and $11.35/bu respectively.
The funds continued their selling in live and feeder cattle futures on continued fears that the Trump administration want to lower U.S. beef prices. The fundamentals have not changed, only market psychology has.
Stocks markets continue to worry about a weak U.S. job market, but you can blame ChatGPT for that. In the future, we will have a more efficient, productive and growing economy with a higher unemployment rate until we have more skilled AI workers.
After 34 new record highs in the S & P 500 and 124 new records in the NASDAQ in 2025 we are back to a correction and investor profit taking as AI valuations may have gotten too stretched near-term ahead of NVDA’s 3rd quarter earnings announcement on Nov. 19th. But this is not an AI bubble.
75% of Tesla shareholders approved a $1 trillion pay package for Elon Musk!
It has rained in South America in the last 7 days, but both the American and European models agree that Central Brazil remains dry in the next 14-days!

Farm fatality occurs in Alberta

US Farmer Publication Acquired