EXTREMES REFLECTIONS INNOVATIONS and KC Graner, Senior Vice President of Agronomy
The previous Connections magazine was published 6 months ago. This was before a bevy of events which have now worked in concert to redirect the agricultural industry on its path. While not a necessity to remind readers, the past six months have presented the opposite extremes to last year’s drought, new geopolitical occurrences that impact trade flow and valuations, and a volatile election sequence that will shape commodity markets moving forward.
The entire CFS trade territory ended up being classified in either ‘drought’ or ‘extreme drought’ categories as the growing season concluded. Spring 2024 decided to swing the pendulum back and offered every weather-reporting district across Southern MN, Northern IA, and surrounding areas their wettest 60- day span in the past 132 years. There is no doubt that Spring 2024 and early summer 2024 were amongst the most stressful for CFS patrons in recent memory. The agronomic impacts of this pattern are undeniable: moisture and fertility stress due to poor root development, fungal disease pressure, elevated insect pressure, and inconsistent crop maturity are all factors witnessed in this growing season.
Last fall, our geography saw unilateral stress due to drought in crop year 2023.
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