'I have done this for 39 years, farming, and this is the most expensive crop in my experience.'
If you are a row crop farmer, you kind of get one paycheck a year. You put seed in the ground and say a prayer.“If you are a row crop farmer, you kind of get one paycheck a year,” said Kron, a farmer and the Indiana Farm Bureau president. “You put seed in the ground and say a prayer.”
Stalks of field corn reach for the sky on an Indiana farm. Farmers across the region are facing one of their most difficult years in decades as inflation sends costs soaring and there are shortages in supplies.Commodity prices at the beginning of the season were at a strong level for farmers, but have been trending down in recent weeks.
The growing challenges can squeeze out some farmers, Kron said, particularly some of the smaller ones. Land prices are also through the roof, just as home prices have been across the country. Land that used to be between $5,000 to $7,000 is now upwards of $12,000. These high prices also present a serious obstacle for younger generations to get into farming. When they see the high prices, the stress, the difficulty of finding land and the “reward” at the end of the year, it’s challenging for them to want to stay on the farm.
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