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Keep in Touch For Grain Marketing Tools

CHS Eastern Farmers continues to develop and tailor grain marketing programs for your farm. A great example is CHS Pro Advantage. The past couple of months your CHS Eastern Farmers grain merchandising staff has been offering this CHS Pro Advantage contract. This new program allowed producers to diversify marketing while taking the emotion out of selling. This was a way to take advantage of professional pricing for a portion of their crops using trading experts with a track record of success based on deep market intelligence — especially during times of volatile or low-priced commodity markets.

How does it work?CHS Pro Advantage allows a grower of corn, soybeans or wheat to pledge a specific quantity of bushels for a producer-defined delivery destination. These bushels would be priced by the commodity professionals at CHS Hedging/Russell Consulting Group over a specific period of time.

RCG Corn and Soybean PerformanceThe settlement price to the grower will be based on the performance of the futures and options hedges traded by our commodity professionals.

CHS Pro Advantage specifics:• Basis decision remains with the grower.• Cost to the grower was $0.10 per bushel enrolled for the 2016 program and $0.12 for the

2017 program.• There is no minimum for bushels.• Bushels may be rolled forward as per the buyer’s policy.• A price-out option is available to the grower at any time during the pricing period.• Grower receives monthly e-mail updates with marketing progress.

Also watch for tools like Compass Contracts, merchandiser analysis, market projects and off farm trucking programs in the future by staying in touch with your CHS Eastern Farmers merchandisers & grain location staff.

Challenges Bring OpportunitiesPlant in the dust and your bins will bust. That seems like a perfect phrase to sum up harvest in our part of the country.

Seed  Placement  Decisions  for  the  2016  Season

By  Brad  Farrell

My  grandpa  used  to  say,  “You  only  get  one  chance  to  plant,  so  you’d  be9er  do  it  right.”    When  most  people  hear  a  phrase  like  that,  they  think  of  proper  planAng  depth  and  correct  plant  spacing.    But  when  I  hear  it,  I  also  think  of  making  the  proper  hybrid  and  variety  selecAons  for  the  year.

One  of  my  favorite  parts  of  my  job  is  to  help  growers  make  seed  placement  decisions  for  their  operaAons.    Each  grower  has  different  prioriAes,  goals,  and  variables  that  go  into  making  their  seed  decisions,  making  each  scenario  a  unique  challenge.    

The  first  step  is  to  examine  results  from  this  past  year.    What  worked  on  their  acres,  and  what  didn’t?    Are  there  hybrids  or  varieAes  from  last  year  that  won’t  be  available  for  next  year?  What  did  we  learn  in  our  plots  and  yield  trials?

The  next  step  is  to  evaluate  each  field  for  things  like  soil  type,  ferAlity  levels,  and  yield  goals.    The  seed  companies  that  we  work  with  evaluate  all  of  their  hybrids  for  different  variables  like  populaAon,  rotaAon,  fungicide,  and  ferAlity.    

The  final  step  is  to  use  the  informaAon  gained  in  the  first  two  steps  to  put  a  plan  together  that  fits  the  grower’s  needs  and  expectaAons.      At  CHS  Eastern  Farmers,  our  agronomists  are  experts  at  building  seed  plans  with  a  variety  of  opAons.    We  can  walk  through  step  by  step  to  help  you  find  the  proper  hybrids  and  varieAes  for  your  acres.    

CHS commits $200,000 to SDSU research facility

CHS has committed $200,000 toward the new Cow-Calf Education and Research Facility at South Dakota State University, scheduled for completion in early 2016. The facility plans include a multipurpose building for maternity and livestock evaluation pens, a monoslope research building and replicated pastures for grazing management research. “The cattle industry is a large part of our business,” says Jerry Jueneman, sales and business development director, CHS Animal Nutrition. “We are proud to support this state-of-the-art facility that will benefit our rancher-owners and allow the next generation of cattle ranchers to gain practical experience for their future.” Jueneman and Bob Goetz represented CHS as SDSU Department of Animal Science department head Joe Cassady and Barry Dunn, South Dakota Corn Utilization Council Endowed Dean of the College of Agriculture and Biological Sciences at South Dakota State and Director of SDSU Extension, recognized the gift at the Sept. 27 Beef Bowl game at Coughlin-Alumni Stadium.

Variable Soils + Variable Yield Goals + Variable Fertility = Variable Rate Planting!

Who  wouldn’t  want  to  save  3-‐6%  along  with  the  poten7al  to  make  that  much  more?  With  variable  rate  plan7ng  that  is  exactly  our  goal.  Using  today’s  leading  soBware  programs  and  our  agronomic  exper7se  we  can  offer  a  CHS  YieldPoint  farm  plan  and  variable  rate  prescrip7on  which  includes  hybrid  placement,  popula7on  assessment,  response  to  addi7onal  nitrogen  and  fungicides,  and  es7mated  produc7vity  using  historic  yields  and  10  other  soil  aHributes  for  your  Dekalb,  Croplan,  NK  and  other  brand  corn.  

Typically  stay  within  one  to  two  thousand  plants  per  acre  of  your  current  plan7ng  rates,  from  there  we  discuss  what  areas  we  would  call  our  low  and  high  zones  of  yield  poten7al.    Analyzing  hybrid,  soils,  and  yield  goal  we  vary  popula7ons  from  28-‐38K  in  good  soils  or  18-‐30K  in  difficult  or  sandy  soils.  A  new  market  that  is  coming  in  to  play  is  variable  ra7ng  plan7ng  soybeans.  We  adjust  popula7ons  from  120K-‐200K  and  save  an  addi7onal  $10  per  acre.  CHS  YieldPoint  VR  Prescrip7ons  will  take  full  advantage  of  seed  and  maximize  poten7al  of  lower  yielding  zones  and  raise  yields  in  our  best  producing  zones.    Think  of  it  this  way:    Every  500  kernels  of  Corn  is  about  $2.00  per  acre  and  every  10,000  seed  beans  is  about  $3.50  per  acre.  It  is  very  easy  to  see  that  on  those  poorer  producing  areas  we  can  quickly  save  $10,  $20  or  even  $40  per  acre!

CHS  Eastern  Farmers  has  the  exper7se  to  make  variable  rate  plan7ng  maps  for  any  and  all  planters  including,  John  Deere,  Case  IH,  and  Kinze.    Put  a  CHS  Eastern  Farmers  Agronomist  and  CHS  YieldPoint  Specialist  on  your  schedule.  Together  we’ll  craB  a  variable  rate  plan  for  your  farm.

Variable Soils + Variable Yield Goals + Variable Fertility = Variable Rate Planting!

Who  wouldn’t  want  to  save  3-‐6%  along  with  the  poten7al  to  make  that  much  more?  With  variable  rate  plan7ng  that  is  exactly  our  goal.  Using  today’s  leading  soBware  programs  and  our  agronomic  exper7se  we  can  offer  a  CHS  YieldPoint  farm  plan  and  variable  rate  prescrip7on  which  includes  hybrid  placement,  popula7on  assessment,  response  to  addi7onal  nitrogen  and  fungicides,  and  es7mated  produc7vity  using  historic  yields  and  10  other  soil  aHributes  for  your  Dekalb,  Croplan,  NK  and  other  brand  corn.  

Typically  stay  within  one  to  two  thousand  plants  per  acre  of  your  current  plan7ng  rates,  from  there  we  discuss  what  areas  we  would  call  our  low  and  high  zones  of  yield  poten7al.    Analyzing  hybrid,  soils,  and  yield  goal  we  vary  popula7ons  from  28-‐38K  in  good  soils  or  18-‐30K  in  difficult  or  sandy  soils.  A  new  market  that  is  coming  in  to  play  is  variable  ra7ng  plan7ng  soybeans.  We  adjust  popula7ons  from  120K-‐200K  and  save  an  addi7onal  $10  per  acre.  CHS  YieldPoint  VR  Prescrip7ons  will  take  full  advantage  of  seed  and  maximize  poten7al  of  lower  yielding  zones  and  raise  yields  in  our  best  producing  zones.    Think  of  it  this  way:    Every  500  kernels  of  Corn  is  about  $2.00  per  acre  and  every  10,000  seed  beans  is  about  $3.50  per  acre.  It  is  very  easy  to  see  that  on  those  poorer  producing  areas  we  can  quickly  save  $10,  $20  or  even  $40  per  acre!

CHS  Eastern  Farmers  has  the  exper7se  to  make  variable  rate  plan7ng  maps  for  any  and  all  planters  including,  John  Deere,  Case  IH,  and  Kinze.    Put  a  CHS  Eastern  Farmers  Agronomist  and  CHS  YieldPoint  Specialist  on  your  schedule.  Together  we’ll  craB  a  variable  rate  plan  for  your  farm.