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

Raportul dublei lucrări ale solului

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.

De Field desk · 4 min read

Note de teren

Transmise și ele de redacție

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 de citit
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 de citit
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 de citit

Almanah

Fixat în dimineața asta

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

Ultima oră

Ora centrală

07:42 CT · Market desk
Kansas elevators quoting $6.90/bu on HRW, up a penny on export talk.
07:15 CT · Crop desk
Corn rated 6% poor on Sunday's walk-throughs — beans holding at 78% good.
06:58 CT · Forest desk
Lake State mill moves to double shift on pine pulpwood run.
06:30 CT · Weather desk
Frost tube out again for the northern townships Thursday dawn.
06:02 CT · Livestock desk
Cattle cash rang $1.87 dressed at four interior plants yesterday.
05:40 CT · Market desk
Gulf barge out 36k tons corn; no new tenders posted overnight.

Prognoza

Cinci zile · patru regiuni

Central Plains prognoză pe cinci zile
Central Plains	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
Max. / min., pe zile	82°58°	85°60°	87°61°	84°59°	76°55°

AtențieHarvest window: four dry days starting Thursday.

Lake States prognoză pe cinci zile
Lake States	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
Max. / min., pe zile	68°47°	71°49°	52°31°	60°42°	64°45°

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

Pacific Northwest prognoză pe cinci zile
Pacific Northwest	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
Max. / min., pe zile	61°50°	58°48°	63°49°	69°51°	66°50°

AtențieWind advisory through Wednesday — spray calls off.

Gulf Coast prognoză pe cinci zile
Gulf Coast	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
Max. / min., pe zile	88°72°	86°71°	90°73°	92°74°	90°73°

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

Tabloul

Cotări întârziate · nu constituie recomandare

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

Linia reprezintă ultimele opt închideri — o însemnare, nu o prognoză.

Șopronul

Tehnologie transmisă de la șopron

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 de citit
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 de citit
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 de citit
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 de citit

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

Cow herd liquidation slows for the first quarter in eight

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

Road maintenance levy on loaded logging trucks advances out of committee