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Nebraska farmer says 2021 issues will spill into next year
A Western Corn Belt farmer says the issues that plagued producers in 2021 aren’t going away in the new year.
“American farmers feel like they are kind of getting backed into a corner.”
Andy Jobman who farms in South Central Nebraska says supply chain disruptions, part shortages and record input costs might get worse.
But, he tells Brownfield that’s not what keeps him up at night. “Right now, we’re just kind of hoping that we don’t have a variant that comes out that shuts downs world markets because then farmers will be faced with high inputs they’ve already purchased and plummeting crop prices because we won’t be able to do any trade.”
And, he says, “If the markets dry up to sell our crop and we’ve purchased big inputs, boy we’re going to have a really hard time in agriculture. We all try to sell ahead a little bit right to protect ourselves and we do have to make big purchases but we’re not selling 100 percent of our crop right now because we haven’t even go the seed in our sheds to put in the ground yet.”
Jobman says “something must give” to put farmers in a better position to ensure profits in 2022.
Brownfield’s Amie Simpson contributed to this story.
Andy Jobman, President of the Nebraska Corn Growers Association:
