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Tuesday edition · Vol. 12, No. 259 · 4 min read

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River traffic doubles, grain bids hold — and the timber haulers roll right through it all

Two flatbarges out of Savanna cleared Saturday. Bids barely moved. Out in the Lake State pine, the chip vans haven't stopped since August.

Barge tops were $1.95 over the board at Savanna, and the inland basis finally cracked a dime wider for the first time since June. Elevators that spent July buying nothing are calling drivers again.

The timber story is bigger than the grain story this week: two mills went to double shift on pine pulpwood, and landed cost per ton is the number every logger between Alexandria and Jasper is quoting at the coffee counter.

What ties them is labor and iron — half the new combines delivered this fall leave the lot with a chipper hitch, and the local logging crew is hiring. Both halves of this market run on the same hands.

Autor: Field desk · 4 min read

Notatki z pola

Również nadesłane przez redakcję

  1. Livestock

    Cow herd liquidation slows for the first quarter in eight

    Slaughter cow kill is down 4% year on year. Feeder supply tightens, and backgrounder bids are answering.

    Mon · 3 min czytania

  2. Forestry

    Beetle-killed timber auction sets new per-Mbf high in the intermountain

    Salvage volume keeps climbing. Two buyers now running their own fellers instead of bidding.

    Sun · 5 min czytania

  3. Policy

    Road maintenance levy on loaded logging trucks advances out of committee

    Would fund county haul routes. Both the grain carts and the chip vans pushed for it.

    Fri · 2 min czytania

Almanach

Przypięto dziś rano

Sun
6:58a / 7:49p
Moon
Waxing gibbous, 71%
Soil
Root-zone 54° at 4 stations
Wind
12 mph S, easing by dusk

Depesze

Czas centralny

  1. 07:42 CT · Market desk

    Kansas elevators quoting $6.90/bu on HRW, up a penny on export talk.

  2. 07:15 CT · Crop desk

    Corn rated 6% poor on Sunday's walk-throughs — beans holding at 78% good.

  3. 06:58 CT · Forest desk

    Lake State mill moves to double shift on pine pulpwood run.

  4. 06:30 CT · Weather desk

    Frost tube out again for the northern townships Thursday dawn.

  5. 06:02 CT · Livestock desk

    Cattle cash rang $1.87 dressed at four interior plants yesterday.

  6. 05:40 CT · Market desk

    Gulf barge out 36k tons corn; no new tenders posted overnight.

Prognoza

Pięć dni · cztery regiony

Central Plains prognoza pięciodniowa
Central PlainsTueWedThuFriSat
Maks. / min., na dobę82°58°85°60°87°61°84°59°76°55°

UwagaHarvest window: four dry days starting Thursday.

Lake States prognoza pięciodniowa
Lake StatesTueWedThuFriSat
Maks. / min., na dobę68°47°71°49°52°31°60°42°64°45°

UwagaFrost watch Thursday — lows near 31° in low ground.

Pacific Northwest prognoza pięciodniowa
Pacific NorthwestTueWedThuFriSat
Maks. / min., na dobę61°50°58°48°63°49°69°51°66°50°

UwagaWind advisory through Wednesday — spray calls off.

Gulf Coast prognoza pięciodniowa
Gulf CoastTueWedThuFriSat
Maks. / min., na dobę88°72°86°71°90°73°92°74°90°73°

UwagaBelt of rain 2–3 in over the eastern parishes.

Tablica

Notowania opóźnione · nie jest poradą

  1. WHRW wheat/ bu$6.90▲ +0.08
  2. SSoybeans TSU/ bu$11.42▼ -0.06
  3. CCorn, no. 2 yellow/ bu$4.31▲ +0.03

Linia to ostatnich osiem rozliczeń — zapis, nie prognoza.

Garaż maszyn

Technologie nadsyłane z garażu maszyn

  • Ag techWeed-mapper drones pass field calibration at three co-ops

    Spray-on-sight rigs hit 94% spot-kill in side-by-side plots. Burn-down passes are down a third. The setup that beat the boom sprayer in replicated trials last season held up across three co-ops this fall: a push-nozzle rig, a camera gantry, and a shared mapping drone that sends the prescription to both. Growers on the walk-through kept saying the same thing — the tech is finally boring, which means it works.

    Mon · 6 min czytania

  • IronBattery backhoe puts up a full dig-day on one charge

    1,400 dig-cycle count at the county fair display lot. Noiseless digging was the real crowd-pleaser. Two utility contractors ran the machine side-by-side with a diesel backhoe on the same trench course. Same cycle count by 4 p.m., same hole. The operator's complaint: quiet machines get ridden harder because nobody feels the shift change.

    Sat · 4 min czytania

  • ForestryAutonomous feller-buncher pilots on a private Lake State circle

    Operator sits in the landing shack on a tablet — one machine at a time, nine hours a day. The pilots are careful and honest about the limits: no live standing timber in wind over 15, no frozen ground yet. Land owners want it for the steep ground nobody wants to walk. Haul contractors want it because a machine that runs 9 hours is a machine that feeds the chip plant steady.

    Thu · 7 min czytania

  • Weather techSoil-moisture mesh in four watersheds goes public

    Free API, hourly readings, honest gap notes. Your frost model will like the 2 a.m. numbers. Four watershed districts pooled grant money for tube probes and cellular backhaul, and the feed is now open to any resident with an email address. The dashboard even shows what's offline — a first on a public ag weather page, and the reason the counties trusted it.

    Tue · 3 min czytania

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