18 November 4, 2014 2014 LOGAN COUNTY FARM OUTLOOK MAGAZINE LINCOLN DAILY NEWS.com
Will corn
producers make
money this year?
A look at 2012’s low yields
and high prices versus 2014’s
high yields and low prices
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sk a Logan County grain producer
if he is going to have a profitable
year in 2014, and the answer you get
will be “yes, no, maybe, but probably
not.”
It may seem contradictory, but the fact
of the matter is, all these answers are
going to be correct in this upside-down
harvest. Based on cash corn prices at
country elevators on October 24th, the
likelihood that even the farmer with the
best yields is going to show a profit this
Story by Nila Smith