discusses gift giving for the cowboy's best friend. u.s. farm report - brought to you by the dependable, long lasting, chevy silverado.now for the news that moved the markets this week...the dow chemical company and dupont say they're joining forces. a merger that makes it one of the biggest chemical and seed companies in the world. in a press release, both ag giants says their boards of directors unanimously approved the agreement. the new company will go by the name dow dupont...and will spin off three fully independent publicly traded companies over the next 2 years. analysts say its a must for regulatory reasons. the split expected to create an agricultural powerhouse--combing seed and crop protection from both pioneer and dow. analysts say the new company would sell almost a fifth of the world's pesticides and more than 40

dowdupont company would have a market size of roughly 130 billion dollars. the american farm bureau is wary of mass layoffs or reduced research spending--ultimately meaning less choice for farmers. usda releasing it's latest world supply and demand numbers this week. the report without many surprises for market watchers. usda lifting new-corn ending bushels to nearly one-point-eight billion. that's up 25 million from last months estimate. it cut corn exports by 50 million, but boosted ethanol demand for corn by 25 million bushels. soybean and wheat stocks were both un-changed. argentina elections factoring into the latest wasde report. it pushed higher grain exports for the country the same week as new president maurico macri took office. he ran on promises to eliminate or curtail export taxes on grains. usda raised argentine wheat exports by a million tons to six million. export sales boosting grain prices a bit this week. corn

export sales....usda says december 3rd net corn sales topped 1 million metric tons..beating trade expectations. soybeans also edging higher with oilseed sales totalling 1 point 5 million metric tons. wheat futures getting a boost from investor action--short coverings pushing wheat near a 3 week high. all cotton production is forecast to fall 20 percent this year to 13 million 480 pound bales. per acre yields also expected to be lower. production is just one of the many topics discussed this week at a house agriculture subcommittee hearing in washington. cotton growers and bankers expressing the significant challenges facing the industry in the year ahead. u.s. cotton acreage is at its lowest level since 1983 however world production and carry over pushing prices to their lowest level since 2009. "the world carry over is the biggest challenge as far as on the ballance sheet. we're carrying almost a whole crop carryover

continue to take it on the nose. december live cattle futures trading below 1-20 this week. january feeder falling below 1-49. the sterling profit tracker says feed yards are now in uncharted territory. american cattle feeders now losing more than 6-hundred dollars per head. last week's 5-area cash price was a dollar 23 per pound....brekevens were calculated above 1-70. el nino kicking into high gear out west. torrential rains have pummeled parts of the west coast, causing mudslides, flooding roads and knocking out power. the sno-qual-mee river left its banks in rural king county. that's east of seattle. dairy's and cattle owners spending the week moving stock to higher ground more storms are expected. those are the headlines...meteorologist cindi clawson is in for mike hoffman this week. cindi the end of last week seemed to be more active? how about weather in the week ahead? well clinton, i think we are still going to see some active weather this week, but let's start off with the u.s. drought monitor. we have seen some big changes, obviously in

especially by the coast and california is getting a little better, still pretty bad, we have a long way to go there, but one thing that we might notice is that we actually don't have any drought in new mexico or texas and it's been years since we have actually seen that happen. we do see drought expanding a little bit into the great lakes, into indiana and into michigan, so it is getting a little bit drier in the eastern part of the country. heading through the week, we do expect to see some pretty good rains in the eastern part of the country, a little bit of snow, especially in the upper great lakes, some sunshine in the nation's mid-section, another system though bringing some rain and upper elevation snow to much of the rockies, but notice a little bit of rain there, with another system coming on shore there. by wednesday, we are going to be seeing, yep, more rain and upper elevation snow for the pacific northwest and that system that was off in the west moving through the eastern half of the country, so look for rain some snow over towards the great lakes, with some slightly

on wednesday in much of the plainstates and down into the four corners region, as far as friday goes a little bit of lake effect snow possible in the great lakes, some rain down into the southeast, but most of the country actually seeeeg some quiet conditions for a change. i will have more weather coming up in the next half hour.thanks cindi. stay with us, mike florez and joe vaclavik join me next for this week's round table discussion. you're watching u.s. farm report with host tyne morgan, commentator john phipps, agribusiness director al pell and meteorologist mike hoffman. u.s. farm report. trted.

florez of florez trading and joe vaclavik with standard grain. gentlemen, let's talk about that report that came out from usda this week, and we'll start with you, joe. what was y yr

very, very few changes. the domestic corn balance sheet just saw some numbers moved around. they upped their ethanol projection, they reduced their exports by just a little bit. soybeans and wheat they left the domestic balance sheets totally unchanged, so all in a a not a market movov and not really a surprise to anybody. >> do you agree with him there, mike? >> i do. there really wasn't much to talk about. the markets didn't really have much a reaction to it either, so it's we've been going sideways for a while in grains, and i think we're probably going to kind of stay in that range for a while until probably end of the winter. >> yeah. now, you do momo technical trading on your side. talk a little bit about what the charts are telling you right now, mike. >> well, i think right now i think that you want to error on the side being short the market on any rallies, but be a trader. i don't think there's a big break coming in the market, especially like in corn. it feels like it's kind of done what it's going to do. my cycles, a long term cycles, i think we're going to put, set a pretty good low in next year and probably towards the end of the

2016. but in the meantime i don't think there's a lot on the upside right now. >> yeah,h,ot pretty but maybe an ending there. what do you think, joe? >> well, fundamentally speaking the news has obviously been bearish for some time now, and you've got to believe that a lot of that's baked into the market at this point. we've known that the dollar's been strong for a long time. we've known that expopos have suffered, so i think a lot ofofhe poor demand nene, a lot of the bearish, fundamental stuff is probably priced into this thing. the one thing that i see as being a real negative factor in the rowcrop markets is that farmers are just sitting on a ton of grain, corn in particular. that's something that could support basis, could support spreads, but it's not friendly to flat price. >> not even not long term especially, right? >> no, not long term especially. when farmers are holding a large percentage of a huge crop that's not a friendly factor. >> talk a little bit about wheat, mike, because you've been tracking that market a little bit. >> well, yeah, the fundamentals of

wheat around, but you have to look beyond just the fundamentals, and i'm really interested in the makeup of who's long, who's short. and right now the funds are near a record short again, and they'd like to be short wheat. and this is five times in the last four years they've gotten this short, and each time that they've gotten this short a rally has ensued. and those raraies are anywhere f fm 75 cents to $3.50 over about a threemonth time period. so i don't know when to exactly buy wheat, but i think it's coming up very, very soon. so that's the market technically for me that looks the best shape to give you a rally. >> so a tough market right now but maybe go ahead. >> if wheat goes up that will pull corn and everything will get pulled, but i think wheat will be your leader. it will be the thing as markets go up they tend to go up further because shorts have to cover and more buying ensues. so it will be out of nowhere, but it's going to happen soon. >> what do you think, joe, you think? >> well, funds are e ort

like mike said you need we^ll probably need some kind of catalyst to spark a rally, whether it's something in the currency markets or weather is the normal culprit in these types of markets, but, yeah, the short covering especiaiay in the wheat can really take the market a long way when maybe it shouldn't fundamentally. >> real quick, exports. what do you think? is that enough? are we getting enough exports to try we had a couple big sales this week. >> we've had some decent or an improvement in activity in corn and soybeans, but overall we're still running below projections. we're running below last year. the fact we haven't seen a decent improvement at lower prices is very troubling. >> yeah, real quick, mike, your thoughts on south america and what could happen there and how that could impact >> so far their weather's okay, bubuthat's always a changing situation. it's early in the season, so it's a wait and see on that. >> all right, thank you both. we'll be back with more round table discussion here on u.s. farm report in just a couple of minutes. find your next piece of equipment at machinerypete.com and enter for

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acla let's start by talking about the macro economy, mike, ananwhat you see as like the drivers around the world really driving all of these markets. i'm guessing oil has to be one of them. >> oh, yeah. oil's going to zero it looks like. saudi, i don't know understand their policy of overproducing like this to try and drive america's out of business. i don't know that much about oil, but if those welel are closed, can't t ey reopen them if prices go back up again? >> you would think. >> so i don't understand the strategy, but anyway that's what they want to do, so that's keeping -- obviously is going a lot lower and putting pressure on a lot of different markets. >> yeah, what do you think, joe,

next week it is assumed that thehefed is going to hike rates for the first time in a number of years. it's in all likelihood not going to be a big rate increase, but it's going to be a game changer in that we haven't seen a rate hike in a long time. intereststates, the fed fund rate has been essentially next to zero for a long, long time. i think as it relates to farmers and people in agriculture the biggest thing will be any impact on the currencies. >> okay. >> you know, fundamentally a rate hike should be maybe a little friendly to the dollar, but historically the dollar's actually backed off after major rate hikes in the past. so a softer dollar would be the best thing that a farmer could ask for right now given poor exports of corn, soybeans and wheat. >> yeah, what do you think, mike? do you agree? >> yeah, i've heard some talk recently out of europe that their fed governors are saying that we've probably done about enough as they're going to do over there. their leader is pushing for more stimulus, but i think the board members are kind of backing off from that, so it could be the

stabilize. >> does an interest rate hike affect a bigger part of ag? what do you see? >> i don't really think so, you know, i don't really think so. whaha fed funds are doing and what farmer gets money for, they're two different things, but i think it's a process that has to start. i think it's good for the u.s. economy, so ultimately you have to have you can't have zero interest rates forever. >> yeah, that's right. let's talk switch gears rere quick and talk a aittle bit about livestock because especially if you're looking at the cattle markets another tough week in cattle. feed yards losing plus $600 a head. where does this stop? and is there a floor here? >> well, the cash market in the cattle tells you that the market's not out of line in what it's doing. we're fairly priced in the future. some people could argue that you're even overpriced in some of the deferred contracts in live cattle at least relative to where the cattle market is. so, yeah, it's an ugly deal and the volatility in the market

has made things very, very difficult for the cattle prododer to hedge, to useeoptions, to really d danything. it's really turned into an ugly deal after a couple really good years. >> yeah, and we're seeing that. even traders struggling to get through the cattle market. >> yeah, it caught me this week. i dipped my toe in the water for the first time in many a week, and you know, you can lose so much money so quickly in cattle that it's really not worth trading it at all. if you're going to trade it use options. it's just difficult to control your risk. >> yeah, have we walked away from the fundamentals in this market or no? >> no, not necessarily. i mean, like i said the cash market, the beef market, the cashfeeder cattle market tell you that we're not doing anything out of line relative to fundamentals, so, no, i'd probably argue that we're in bearmarket trend. there's bound to be rallies within this kind of bear market, but no, i don't think we're outside of fundamentals at all. >> okay, real quick, 2016, what are you guys watching as we move forward? >> welllli think the bear markets in grain will end.

sudden start getting good again in prices, that's going to affect so many other different sectors of the economy. so look for a low to come probably late winter, early spring for grains, and i think '16 will be a much bebeer year than '15. >> what do you think? >> weather. it's going to be all about weather, south american weather and more importantly next summer u.s. weather. the u.s. we're coming off really two you could argue three good years, '13, '14 and '15 weather wise and crop size. so to dodohat four years in a row, sure, it's dedenitely possible, but weather's the name of the grain in these markets, and unfortunately for the farmer we've had some really good run of weather here recently, and that's good for the crops but not good for prices. >> yeah, we'll see in a warm winter translates intnta warm summer. we'll be right back with markets now and get your final thoughts right after this. receive a free trial of the daily market letter and gain knowledge about current market conditions from the professionals at bower

begin with mike florez. >> well, i guess i would have to say that if you're a holder of grain i would use the strong basis that you got now, especially in the eastern part of the country to maybe loosen up, sell some of it. but i would also hold back some because i thinknke're going to bototm in 2016, so i don'n' know how good we're going to get, but i think we're going to set some good lows that last for several years. so i guess i would say that the worst is pretty much we're at the worst right now. >> all right, joe, what do you think? >> a farmer in the u.s. is undersold, especially in the corn market. they're holding onto a lot of physical grain. they're gambling going into next year. there's no question about it. i couldn't give you a bullish or a bearish argument right now, but i'll tell you that they're gambling on higher prices, and that can be very, very dangerous. it's dangerous to try to pick bottoms

into next year. at risk of sounding like a a oken record, options are cheap. buy your insurance, guys. >> all right. tough year ahead, but get prepared is what i hear from both of you. thank you both for being here. we'll be right back with john phipps in just a moment. u.s. farm report is brought to you by basf, grow smart with basf and get the momo acre after acre, season after season.

tool to have on the farm. just go to usfarmreport.com and click on the link to get details. deadline is december 16 so don't delay. no doubt you've noticed a few ofjohn's projects underway in his shop. in john's world, and likely in yours, the final product is worthwhile but the job of finishing is often

over my shoulder, i have been making slow progress on the slant front desk for my daughter-in- law. at this point roughly two years behind schedule my fitful progress has been less a source of concern than an running gag at family gatherings. but i am entering the part of the construction process that i have been slow to learn how to enjojo finishing. one big realization for me over the years in the shop has been when the cutting and gluing and routing is done, you are only about halfway to completion. there remain many incredibly dull hours of sanding, staining and finishing. these steps aren't nearly as muchchun as inflicting steel on cellulose and there aren't many shortcuts to make them faster either. worst of all, a mistake at this final stage can make all your effort up until now much less impressive. those of you who have ever built a house may recognize this mistake as

completed. farmers face a similar finishing problem. after the crops are harvested and the machines are stored, you may be facing some long delayed paperwork. the final accounting can seem like as much work as the actually growing the crop. while i know many of you are far more diligent about keeping financial records up to date, some of us do what is necessary to keep going day-to-day, and at the end of the year condemn ourselves to a considerable task of summing up the sums. years like 2015 may be a little worse because maybe we suspect what the bottom line is going to look like and don't mind postponing the confirmation as long as possible. but finishing a desk or finishing the numbers may be showing us what the future of our work is going to look like. technology and tools are decreasing the time and effort for actual production,n,o soon the finishing "touches" could be the biggest part of getting the job done. this realization may be one reason i stretch out the

tedium. here's hoping your efforts to complete your work in 2015 are c cracterized by patience, attention to detail, and a well-crafted conclusion to a year of hard work. and here's hoping you don't have any drips, gouges or blotches. perspective...from john's world. thanks john. still to come in the next half f ur of u.s. farm port: researchers in west texas are looking at the calves of clones for potential in the feedyard. baxter b@ack has gift giving tips for your four lekged friends. and al pell fires up an old john deere 50. stay with us...we'll be right back.the chevy silverado is the official news gatatring vehicle for farm journal television.

report. here's what's ahead on u.s. farm report. cool borders--canada and mexico prepare retalitory tarriffs over the u.s. country of origin labeling law. future feeders--could cloning really result in higher quality beef at the grocery store? researchers hope to find out. a lawsuit legacy--what does the saw in john's shop have to do with class action cash? and dearly beloved-- a john deere 50 works

brought to you by the all-new chevy silverado. 2014 north american truck of the year. now for the headlines...the world trade organization opening the dooror trade retaliations against the u.s. this week over country- of-origin meat labeling. the wto announcing monday it would allow mexico and canada to enact retaliatory tariffs on u.s. goods totally just over $1 billion dollars. that's much less than the near 3 and half bill the countries asked for. canada and mexico have set a meeting for december 18th to ask for the go ahead on riffs. mexico has pledged to enact $228 m mlion in tariffs on u.s. products canada could impose $780 million. a previous canadian list of products included beef, pork, apples, rice, and corn. the swine industry celebrating big news out kansas state and the university of missouri. researchers developing pigs resistant to t t porciine reproductive and respiratory syndrome--also known as the prrs virus. that virus alone has cost the pork industry more than 10 billion dollars since arriving in the country back in the 1980's. the break through came when scientists targeted a gene

editinintechnologies to disrupt that gene so that there is no protein produced. these pigs are lacking a single protein and they appear to be perfectly healthy. when we challenged them with the prrs virus, with our collaborators at kansas state, the pigs acted like they never saw the virus. they were in a pen with other wild type pigs that got sick, that coughed, that coughed on these pigs, but these pigs showed noign of infection." "to put it in a nutshell, we were able to make pigs that are resistant to an otherwise incurable disease, an untreatable disease. this could save the industry hundreds of millions of dollars every year."? the researchers say they'll continue to develop the technology. that say it could be about 5 years before the animals are available for farmers. from our newest reporting partners at the packer...usda's latest supply demand report showing big implications for floridadarange

2015-16 crop to 69 million boxes. that's nearly 30 percent less than last season and the smallest more than 50 years. the sharp decline due mostly to citrus greening. the last time production was at that level wasasback in 1963 and 64. that's it for news...meteorologist cindi clawson joins us again with our longer range forecast. cindi it's been a pretty mild start to december. ok, you are not kidding, it's been very, very warm. we still continue to see some warmth, at least in the eastern part of the country, but we are going to see some pretty big troughs moving through and that will really cool things down for a lot of folks, especially in the north central and north eastern united states. we are going to see some systems that bring us some cold air and even some snow chances for parts of the north central, north eastern part of the country. by next weekend though, it looks like we have a little bit of a warm up i ithe east but still l ol temperatures in m mh of the northwest. now, as far as our 30 day temperatures are concerned, we really haven't seen much change. we are looking

above normal for the gulf coast states, for most of them anyways, all the way up to the northern plains. it looks like a little bit more on the cool side down towards the four corners region and the southwestern united states. here's a look at your precipitation for the next 30 days, it looks like wet along the mid-atlantic, the gulf coast states, into the four corners region and of course along the northwestern coast, the west coast, a little dry for the northern plains. thanks cindi. last week we heard about plans in china to build a factory that rolls out a million cloned cattle a year. in the u.s. livestock clones have been around for quite sometime. and in today's farm journal report, tyne morgan takes a closer look at new research into clones and their potential to impact the feedyard. a thick black coat, nice depth of body.... these may look like your typical calves, but it's their genetics that makes them unique. these are not cloned animals, these are products of cloned animals.> you're looking at the first calves to be born to two cloned animals and the product of

amarillo. we're sesecting for a genotypic trait, instead o oa phenotypic trait like a lot of cloning projects have done. that means the researchers want the animals for the quality of their meat. we wanted to improve the quality of the beef carcass in the national, the prime yield grade 1 carcass, it happens .03% of the time in the population, so we wantededo see if we could improve that. just thelightest bit would help out the industry" since the clones aren't entering the food chain, this is nothing more than a normal breeding project." the project started in 2012 by cloning their first bull named alpha. we took a carcass off ththline, and it was a prime yield grade 1 carcass, we took a tissue cell from that carcass, from the muslce and we cloned that animal on teh prime yield grade 1 trait." from there, they had three heiffers from that same dna line. that group they call gammama. and these calves are a product of both delta and

product ath you want with typical and traditional breeding techniquest. what we're doing is we took the ccarcass off thel ine and we're kind of working backwards on that. so we get the finished product that we're looking for quicker than traditional methods.> while carcass quality was the goal, the unexpted occurred... they've just been really, really healthy calves" to be a prime yield grade 1 means they could have not of ever really stumped their toe, gotten sick, had any treatments, their vigor at birth was outstanding, they're rate of gain has been really good. i weighed all summer, every two weeks to get grwoth data on them, an dtheir average daily gain has been outstanding, up near 3 on most of them, all through the summer'the hope is to make the dna available for reproductive purposes across the entire industry. the hope is

that producers across teh nation could get semen and eggs from and be able to produce some outstanding calves and genenetions beyond that."while that still mayaye years in the making, the possibility is there. if the product does nothing more than shift a greater percentage of cattle towards the choice quality grade, it's successful"i think it's really promsing. i mean if you can tell a producer, i meaea asasroducers know, when they take somethingngo harvest or even a feedlot, they get paid at harvest for different premiums on prime, high choice whatever they're looking for. so if you can say, hey, we're going to promise that more of your animals are going to grade better, then it will be a huge deal for hte producece"as the sun rises, bringing a new day, it's the prospect of better quality cattle that's helping this university improve the future of the industry. reporting from canyon texas, i'm tyne morgan with u-s farm report. thanks tyne. while cloning work has been ongoing

dolly the sheep --that began a cascade of advances in the technology. next week the farm journal report takes a closer look at the catfish industry and recent changes in federal oversite. stay with us, john phipps is next. "the viptera lawsuit, is it just free money?" join us this year as we talk to growers about this year's growing season and the decisions they're making on their journey to harvest healthy fields higher

yngenta and it's viptera seed traits. and of course viewers want to know what john phipps thinks about it. his answer from the customer support desk. john. this week we have a problematic query reagrding thsyngenta viptera lawsuit from a viewer

syngenta then instead of suing them shouldn't we just quit buying their products? wouldn't 20,000 farmers refusing to purchase any syngenta product do more harm than a lawsuit? if one of these lawsuits eventually grinds through our l lal system and a large settlement is awarded, then won't syngenta just pass that along to the farmer in higher seed and chemical prices? surely dupont and all other seed companies would have to raise the cost of their products to cover the cost of any future litigation? i have avoided addressing this issue. the anonymous viewer was not the first to ask my opinion, although i doubt its value. and the reason for my reluctance is literally right in front of us..he is referring to ongoing litigation efforts against syngenta regarding the premature

china, allegedly resulting in a loss of market share for american producers. we've been here before. back in 2004 i signed up for the starlink class-action lawsuit kind of on a whim. while i have been critical of our excessively litigious legal system, when it came down to it i threw those principles out the window as free money appeared to be a possible outcome. wawai in fact economicicly harmed by the trade kerfuffle that resulted? those injuries are easy to imagine and hard to prove. in the end, however, my slice of the 70-odd million dollar settlement amounted to about $3 acre or to put it another way, this 1 1 left-tilt jet cabibit saw, which i had been longing for for years. what's weird is i still think of it that way i not quite like finding a wallet full

agree that such lawsuits are perhaps more about legal fees than justice, i am evidence of the lure of unearnedealth. the idea of punishing vendors by not buying their products only works if you are buying them in the first place. in fact, any retaliation method has a downside. and yes, these costs, like all costs eventually come from sales or out of shareholder pockets. there is no guarantee the current lawsuits will buy anyone a table saw, but if history is any guide many of us will be signing on just in case. and if there is a settlement, i suspect we'll be just as conflicted about the outcome as i am about this faithful companion. thanks john. and if remember if you have thoughts, comments or feedback on this or other parts of the program be sure to send them to the farm report mailbag. that mailbag at u.s. farm report dot com. miss any of today's show? head to usfarmreport.com to watch the program online. u.s. farm report, the spirit of

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the mosttant people in your life is always a rewarding challenge--whahaabout those dear friends of the four leleed variety. baxter black has some thoughts... one of the most difficult questions every christmas for horse lovers is what to get for that family member that brings you the most joy--he's always there when you need him and underutands you better than anyone. no. it's not your horse clinician, or your barista, or pilate's personal trainer. no, it is your horse. this is not to diminish your affection or your hubby, or your children, or your parents, or your gal pals, but in those

their fears, you rub their necks, you let them cry on your shoulder, but whose shoulder do you cry on? and who do you tell your deepeststecrets to? and who never calls you sillllor tells you that you snore or talk back? not your dog, that's for sure. dogs are too needy. and cats aren't much better, they're more like husbands. you pour your heart out to them and both of them look at yououhe same way when you're done--blank. now, i know people who have an aquarian or a gerbil or wind chimes to turn to in times of need, but in most cases they might as well talk to a 2 by 4--at least a 2 by 4 doesn't fidget, but a horse is the best listener you will ever find. he never questions your ridiculous worries or bad habits or your dreamy wishes, you can lean on a horse. try leaning on a cat. horses can take you for a ride. sure, dogs will take you for a walk, but it's just not the same. try stroking a goldfish or feeding a

vocabulary is...gimme five. christmas shopping for a dog is easy--something to chew on, for a cat something to play with. but a horse would rather that you got something for yourself. new chaps jog purrs, hat, boots, and braided rains, see that's how your horse thinkz. he wants you to look god, he wants you to feel pretty and to shine and people could learn a lot from horses. this is baxter black from out there. a special part of the family. thanks baxter. of course you can see, hear and read more from baxter online at baxter black dot com. hey a quick reminder...christmas is coming--now just a couple weeks away. and this year we'r'rgiving our viewers a chance at a beauty of a gift...a yamaha kodiak 700 just like this one. whether

around the farm or ranch--the kodiak 700 is a great fit. it's yamaha's newest model coupling mpact size with plenty of 'muscle' -- fit for any terrain. it also sports a 1 1hundred pound towing capacity. to win, you have to enter online at us farm report-dot-com. look for the kodiak 700 on the mepage. entries close soon. we'll announce the winner the week of december 18th. good luck. when we come back, tractor tales and our country church salute...please stay with us.

report. for today's tractor tales, we're heading out to the pacific northwest for a look at some classic iron. getting this john deere 50 looking good and running properly was no easy task for leon meyers. but with hard work, and a few of his own modifications along the way, he made this tractor something to

years ago. it had a tricycle front end on it when i bought it. and when i pretty well g it ready to paint and everything a gentleman from waptu county bought a corn picker and he had a tractor he wanted to put on it but he didn't have a wide front end and i said hey, we traded this straight across and that was a good deal for me and good deal for him. had to get the engine bored out, had to get the heads redone had to get the transmission gone through. but now it's had the 90 thousandths out to get all the rust out of the bore. it had sat for 8 years with a rust, water running down it. but anyway its a great tractor now. we e have a plowing day in the spring, out in the farming country and anyone that wants to go out there an plow can. ive just got about 8 acres and ive pulled harrow with it and done small work but with cow pastures you

once in a while and stuff like that. but it's kinda the handy thing around the place in case i need a tractor. i was raised in idaho with my dad had a john deere d. we farmed three hundred and some acres, dry farm. which youre only working half of it each year. so i spent a lot of years _n that d trying to get all the work done. every spring just to get planted and everything so i put a lot of years out in the field when i was a kid.d.nd from our friends out east, we have a special tribute from patrick eimers. this is his grandfather's 1941 h. robert eimers bought it new in westfield new york to grow cucumbers on his farm in ripley. patrick and his father merl restored this tractor in 2006, finishing the work in 2009. while it's working days e done, the eimers bring it out to

original bill of sale with grandpa robert's signature! thank you for sharing your photos and family history with ususthis week, we're paying tribute to the l lcaster christian church located near sigourney, iowa. this small country church celebrated 100 years in the 19-50's-- the building burned down in the 70's, was rebuilt and is still rving the community. our thanks to karen rounce-ville for submitting the church. even though she moved out of state and no longer attends, she says she has fond memories from her time there as a little girl. as always we want to learn about your home church as well... salutes can be sent via email to mailbag at us farm report dot com or reach us through our facebook page. stay with us - cropwach is next.

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in jackson county iowawafarmers tell our p ptners at agweb that in east central l wa the 5 to 10 percent of corn harvest is dragging on. first it was 10 inches of snow now several decent rains are keeping fields wet--even in the mild temperatures. this farmer says folks are pushing hard to try and get done. scott simmons sent us a photo of some cotton left on the south plains. he says there isn't a lot left in the fields, but more than he expected. simmons says the area received some rain over the last coupleeeks. now growers are running hard to finish the harvest. more than 80 percent of texas cotton is now harvested. brenda cox sent this photo to our facebook page. she lives in mountain home arkansas...where life is obviously harmonious. she snapped a picture of her dog enjoying a little chow with resident chickens. jan h hdley also caught a perfect pet picture... her kitty cat on a lazy day a top a round bale near her home in nah-voo alabama. thank you for sharing and of course if u'd like to see friends, family or farm on crop watch be sure to snap and send a picture with a short description to mailbag at us farm report dot com. or you post it to our facebook page or find us on twitter. and that is going to wrap us up for another week here on u.s. farm report. for tyne morgan, cindi clawson and all of us here at the farm...thanks for watching and have a wonderful week. as always, we want to hear from you, send comments to mailbag-at-u- s-farm-report-dot-com or check

for another week here on u.s. farm report. for tyne morgan, cindi clawson and all of us here at the farm...thanks for watching and h he a wonderful week. the chevy silverado is the official news-gathering vehicle for u.s. farm report. i'm

good morning. twisters in texas. wild moments in the lone star state when the tornado touches down, crossing a ahighway. snapped trees, downed power lines, homes severely damaged, while the east sees record-breakininineat once again today. what is behind this wild weather? cruz control. a major shakeup in iowa.