- The annual Pro Farmer Crop Tour got under way Monday, with all the usual fanfare and hoopla associated with a circus coming to town.
- We already know the commercial view of 2024 US soybean and corn crops by tracking spreads since last September.
- As for the soybean crop, the market has already told us there were more acres planted and that the crop associated with those acres keeps getting bigger, with yield estimates irrelevant.
In case you missed it, the Pro Farmer Crop Tour is taking place this week. It’s understandable if you hadn’t heard the news, as it is a quiet little research outing done with little fanfare for the sole purpose of expanding the public’s knowledge of US crops. And if you believe any of that, I’ve got a mountain villa in south central Kansas to sell you. The reality is it’s a weeklong circus geared toward flooding social media with pictures and posts of every field stopped at along the way, despite nearly all of them looking identical. There is also plenty of “Corn Porn”, meaning thousands of photos of corn ears that didn’t fill out to the tip. And if that weren’t enough hard-hitting data for you, there is also pictures of what everyone has to eat and drink EVERY MEAL OF EVERY DAY. Intriguing stuff, right? I always get a laugh picturing some of the city slicker interns sent out as scouts wearing their high dollar “field” clothes while looking for a fancy coffee shop and café for their daily couscous salad. While it is a far cry from what we used to call “Drunks Across Kansas”, the end result is still the same.
