Grain Markets - Summer 2024
With lower corn and soybean prices, we are in a cycle of tight margins... It is always critical to formulate a marketing plan and to take advantage of summer price volatility, until the grain trade is more certain of the 2024 production.
Growing Towards a Sustainable Future
From classrooms to farmland. Hertz clients Nancy and Henry Coan share their story of farmland ownership and building a farm legacy that will last for generations.
May 2024 Wallace’s Farmer MarketPlace Extra
As we learned in Econ 101, when the supply of something is large, relative to the demand, the price normally softens; and when the supply of something is scarce, relative to demand, the price normally rises. This simple relational idea carries over into the farmland market.
Planting Season 2024
Let's discuss soybeans and look ahead to October's harvest. Two things determine soybean yield: the number and size of the beans.
David Krier, AFM, Earns Highest Professional Status
Hertz Farm Management is proud to announce that David J. Krier, AFM, has been awarded the Accredited Farm Manager (AFM) designation from the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers® (ASFMRA®).
April 2024 Wallace’s Farmer MarketPlace Extra
I often think of crop input prices as the ingredients to the recipe for growing a crop. Whenever we have either more ingredients and/or more expensive ingredients going into the recipe, it can impact the outcome.