What is your favorite commodity to grow?

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Corn? soybeans? wheat? cotton? rice? hogs? cattle?chickens?  Other?

And why is it your favorite?

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Corn for me.. I’d like to raise beans but were in a corn an cotton zone..sorghum is easy to raise no money in it.. or for anything else right now for that matter.. lol

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Sugar beets. I enjoy the challenge. We harvest them 24 hrs per day and run a large crew compared to what the same acres of corn would take which is extremely stressful but exhilarating at the same time. I don’t know how long it will last as people about 50 and over say beets are a young mans game lol.

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Sweetcorn!  Easy to grow and profitable

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Soybeans.  They have been the moneymaker like raising hogs were in the last century.

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Corn

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Malting Barley. It is a relatively new crop to me so I am learning more each season. It also always me to get a 2nd crop after the barley which is a plus.

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Cover crops!   Cash crops are boring plus the covers help the cash crops.

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I’m doing chickens, turkeys and quail this year.

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Beef Calves

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peanuts

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Toss up between wheat and canola I'd say. Wheat is maybe more fun to grow but also harder to make money at. Canola in June is always hard on my patience! But by the time it's blooming it's better and harvest is nice- not itchy, easier on the cart and trucks, less storage. Plus the big cheque when you haul in is nice.

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Alfalfa in small Square bales. I liked the customers. I Love hay but it doesn't love me back.  Government started opening up the CRP every time the pointy toed boots and stetson hat crowd cried that they had no hay.   Sold the balers, wagon, rakes and small tractors for $.25 on the dollar and moved on.  Still not financially in a place where I can buy new pickups yet but still farming.

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Popcorn it’s just like raising corn but everyone relates to it. Sweet corn also but it’s more labor-intensive for us.

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Rice farmer through and through here!  I love getting to drive across the countryside here and see all of the flooded acres.  It looks like money, both coming in and going out!  The smell of the flooded fields always reminds me of home!

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Pumpkins 🎃 , only drawback is these are very labor intensive.  But definitely fun to grow!

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Alfalfa hay is my favorite crop.  When you get it put up right the smell of the hay in the barn is reward enough. The money is good too.  The worst part of hay making is incompetent weather forecasters that are wrong 50% of the time and still get to keep their jobs.  All they really care about is if city people can get out on the golf course or mow their lawn.

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Kids cause how it starts out and the government seems to pay well on them.....and practice is always fun but besides that corn since we are feedlot heavy and easy to imagine the process starting to the finished product

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