Are You Facing Obstacles Like
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Low Commodity Prices Combined with Rising Input Costs?
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Uncontrollable Weather Throughout the Growing Season?
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Feeling Discouraged With Today's Farming Environment?
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How to Expand the Farm & Leave a Legacy for the Next Generation?
Learn How Farmers Like You Are Having More Success Despite the Difficult Farming Conditions
Why Red Barn Enterprises?
When it comes to farming, many producers struggle with rising input costs, low commodity prices and unpredictable weather. At Red Barn Enterprises, we help you customize a plan to achieve your long-term goals; to not only make your operation more profitable, but ultimately to ensure that your farm and your legacy are here for generations to come.
We believe that with clear focus, you can make better decisions and achieve long-term success.
For the past decade we've been helping growers "Farm Differently" by focusing on the variables that are within their control. At the end of the day, we’re not here just to sell you seed. Instead, we want to help you achieve your long-term goals, support our rural community and make sure the farming way of life is passed on for generations to come.
It’s time to stop feeling stressed & frustrated over the lack of control you have in farming and instead take charge by following a proven plan to Farm Differently.
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Are You Happy with What You See This Year? | November 2, 2022
As harvest wraps up, farmers continue to think about their crops and how they yielded. They begin to notice certain things that impacted the crop in each field during the growing season that are now more visible as the crop matures. Stalk quality, disease levels, plant health, drought tolerance and management are all indicators of the kind of growing season it has been. As a result, what comes to the minds of most growers is, which varieties were best at resisting those problems and will yield the most. They start deciding which ones need to be eliminated from their program. However, that line of thinking is most often misdirected. It's fall, the time when every field in our area is displaying the results of a sometimes-challenging year. The impact of the 1,000 variables on the crop has effected each field’s overall performance in some way. Some of the affects were positive, and some were negative. In addition, the grower’s own attention to detail really paid off this year by making sure the crop, and field were protected as much as possible from those variables. We know growers with even the best intentions and attention to detail were negatively impacted at points throughout the season by certain uncontrollable variables. Lack of rain, hot weather, spider mites and other factors can sometimes overwhelm all human efforts. When you judge a field this time of year it can tell you a lot. It may tell you what a great job you did. It may show you areas you can improve on, or it may tell you there is nothing else you could have done. The results in the field will reflect that. So, give yourself a pat on the back where things went as planned because of the actions you took to protect the crop. Give yourself a mild kick in the shin where you could have done better and the crop is telling you that. Or, simply shrug your shoulders where mother nature got you and there was nothing you or anyone else could have done about it. As you wrap up this harvest season, review your notes on what you learned. Every one of my customers does a great job. But we all have things we can improve on as new challenges are thrown our way every year. We will continue to discuss those improvements as we finalize your cropping plans for 2023 planting.
