What’s Your Grain Sold Percentage?

An article on Farm Progress

Summer still means work and play, but it also becomes an important checkpoint. It’s a time to sit down and honestly ask: Did I hit the goals I set at the start of the year? What targets are still in play? What do I need to do to adjust for the back half of the marketing year?

Those are the questions each of us should ask. Let’s start with this: How has the first half of the year gone?

• What percent are you sold on old and new crop?

• How did your spring input costs compare to your original projections?

• Where does your current breakeven sit? Have you adjusted it since planting?

• Are your projected yields still realistic, or is it time to adjust?

Now, plenty of questions are worth sitting with as we head into the back half of the year and those vary from operation to operation.

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