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Missouri Farmers Hopeful for Lower Costs, More Profit This Year
Missouri Ag Connection - 03/17/2023
We're only a few weeks out from farmers planting new crops in Missouri.
Mike Moreland is hopeful this year is better than the last.
"Farmers are always optimistic — next year is always better," he said. “We’re just a few weeks away from planting. So we’re fine-tuning all our planters, and our tillage equipment and getting ready to put fertilizer on.â€
Moreland Farms produces corn, soybeans and raises cattle.
"Commodity prices, weather, you name it, we've lived through all of it," Moreland said.
Last year, he saw record-high costs for inputs like fertilizer, fuel and feed.
“What we’re looking at anxiously is fertilizer prices," he said. "They were record-high last year. Now some of them have come down, but a lot of them are still way too high."
Besides high prices, farmers in the region also battled drought.
Source: kshb.com
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