Agricultural Outlook For Nebraska

Author : United States Department Of Agriculture
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780366846894
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (468 download)

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Download or read book Agricultural Outlook Forum, 1999 written by United States Department Of Agriculture and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-09-12 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Agricultural Outlook Forum, 1999: Speech Booklet 4 I am a third generation farmer. My great grandmother moved to Nebraska in 1889. She was a widow and moved to Nebraska along with her 12-year-old son my grandfather. They lived in a dugout through their first winter in south central Nebraska. So, my family's roots are deep in the soil of Nebraska. I farm with my father, two brothers and two sons. We raise irrigated corn, soybeans, specialty crops (popcorn and white corn), and wheat. We have a cow and calf operation and we have finished cattle in area feed lots. I sit on the Agriculture Committee in the Nebraska Legislature and am chairman of the Natural Resources Committee. I would like to give credit to University of nebraska-lincoln agricultural economist Professor Roy Frederick for much of the statistical information contained in this speech. Dr. Frederick, who previously served as Director of Agriculture for the State of Nebraska, is currently with the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska Lincoln. Many of the statistics I will cite have been generated by the Nebraska Farm Business Association, an association of 480 Nebraska farms who input and share data with the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources for the mutual benefit of the association's members. Historically, Nebraska is third overall among states in the production of corn and second in cattle on feed. We are an agricultural state. The state of the agricultural economy in Nebraska is not good. When final totals become available, 1998 net farm income will have been the lowest since the 1983-84 period. We continue to see about 3% annual attrition in the total number of family farms. I believe this percentage will increase during 1999. As you know, the major problem is low commodity prices. Prices for most commodities produced in our state corn, soybeans, wheat, sorghum, hay, fed cattle, feeder cattle and hogs have been below year-earlier levels since about July 1, 1998. These price comparisons are even more meaningful when you realize that Nebraska net farm income in 1997 was down 40% from the previous year. In other words, what we are seeing is a continuation of a downward trend in what were already low prices. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.