Brian Specht has a pragmatic view of farming.
“It’s either feast of famine,” Specht said on a sweltering afternoon this week when he took a break while cutting corn northwest of Iola.
Specht referred not only to crop yields but also prices that newly harvested grain fetches. And his analysis even could apply to differences between crops.
This spring many farmers harvested bumper wheat crops and with its cutting in high gear, corn production promises to be just as robust. The outlook for soybeans, depending on what the weather…
Grain not so golden
