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Farmer stays the course through market changes

Western Missouri farmer Kyle Durham tells Brownfield it’s early in the planting process to get a solid projection of what will actually be planted.

“It’s encouraging that prices reacted the way that they did when the report came out,” Durham told Brownfield Ag News, referring to sharply higher commodity prices following release of the report, “and I think in a couple weeks’ time we’re going to have a really good grasp on what those final numbers may look like.”

Durham, who chairs the Missouri Soybean Merchandising Council, says he sticks with his crop rotation despite temporary market fluctuations tied to government reports.

“The things that do ultimately shift acreages for us,” said Durham, “are largely weather events and having a rainy April or something that really prevents us from getting corn on acres that we wanted to.”