entry into a major export today, on "u.s. farm report", the u.s. pork industry regains entry into a major export market. after a momentary blip, iowa farm values continue their climb. and the struggle isn't over for the dairy industry despite hopes for higher prices. >> "u.s. farm report" brought to you by chevy and their award- winning cars, trucks and crossovers. hello. welcome to "u.s. farm report". i'm john phipps. it's not an easy thing to remember in the middle of a crisis, but many of the

problems we face never get solved or get out right. we simply outlive them. this is especially true when business information is based on faulty information. our pork industry has struggled against misplaced fears for h1n1. the consumer reaction is abating. as al will share, foreign customers are returning as well. i wish there were other ways of immediately quelling unwarranted fears, but sometimes nothing works but patience. time for nose headlines and here -- for those headlines and here is al pell. thanks, thel hello, everyone. a critical market for u.s. pork is open for business. after months of negotiation, the chinese government has agreed to accept pork products from the u.s. they imposed serious restrictions on u.s. pork after the h1n1 outbreak. china was the seventh largest beyer of u.s. pork accounting for 6% of total export sales.

the value of prime iowa farmland continues to tick higher. it's n its latest update, the realtors land institute says values climbed nearly 6% during the period ending march 1. all nine the reporting districts showed an increase with those in central iowa showing the biggest interest. it credits a number of factors for the improvement including favorable interest rates, lower crop input costs and strong cash rents. pasture and timberland values improved up more than 4%. ag department economists are getting more bullish on the dairy market thanks to an improving supply-demand outlook. in the latest update, the usda says herd consideration will continue through the --contraction will continue through the end of the year and demand is xed to climb as our exports. it is averaged more than $16 up from $13 in 2009.

california leads the nation in milk production, so the milk down in 2009 was particularly painful for the golden state. in all of san diego county, there are only four dairies still in business despite an improving outlook, dairymen remain in a fight for survival. >> financially, it's been miserable. emotionally, it's been miserable. you know, in just recently in december 2009 and january of 010, those -- 2010, those were two break even months for me and i was amazed at emotionally how happy somebody could be just to break even. how light you felt breaking even. it's really changed the face of the industry. it's been miserable. >> in all, california lost more than 100 dairies last year.

that's it for the headlines. let's sent send it back to -- send it back to january john for crop watch. >> in crop watch, we head first to southwest south dakota a grower there says he started planting spring wheat midweek. it's wet, but they're mudding through it. in nebraska a-producer says his fields are drying out nicely and he's getting early field work under way. planting should be on schedule if it stays like this he adds. a wisconsin grower says he's been rung his chisel plow on some of his slope fields. they're dry enough, but his flatlands are too wet. when "u.s. farm report" returns, al steps in to talk markets with adam shisle -- andy schissler and brian dougherty. it begins in just 2:00. please, stay with us. helexgt herbicide, glyphosate with residual control that stays in your field all season long so you

don't have to. more recently, sophisticated computer techniques perfected by google and other information companies are rewriting business plans one of the buzz words of the day is "u.s. farm report" round table marketing this week, our guest andy schissler and brian dougherty from stuart-peterson. brian, i know you were look at what the markets were doing on this friday before you came down here. tell us. give us a summary on the main things on markets what's happening. >> sure, we've had a pretty rough weekend -- week in the corn market dropping yesterday over 10. what the market is doing is

looking at a informal factors. they can't find anything friendly for corn right now. consequently, you're seeing liquidation both from farmers, from corn going out of condition as well as technical traders. we just descreent lot of momentum -- we just don't have a lot of momentum right now. >> how did they come up today? >> soybeans are up 8-10 cents. you have a strong export market. strong pace this winter. china has continued to buy. they have canceled very little u.s. beans. they are in need of inventory and they continue to look for beans in the u.s. has had strong production, but the inventory numbers are dwindling downward. >> anything else you look at? >> a lot of things. south america will look at argentina, brazil. they've got to push beans into the pipeline. that will happen, but china's demand, that asian demand is key right now. >> the asian demand. andy? >> i think the biggest issue aside from grain fundamentals right now is what's going on in

europe. we hear a lot of talk about the dollar index and i think that confuse a lot of farmers out there on what that actual he leamons -- actually means and what affect that has. >> a rot of -- a lot of farmers believe the bean being below helps our exports, is that ?riew. >> yeah, we've been doing the op si. the dollar has been going up as they have the crisis in europe. you have six countries. the big one is greece where they're in such a big problem financially that they're trying to get a bailout and what's going to happen here is if they decided today the. i mf might be involved in a bailout of greece. i did a whole bunch of research on the imf and how all these cases look. it's not very good if you go into the imf. the imf was created the international monetary fund was created in 1944 by roosevelt. they wanted to create a program

that put -- it's a new york- based system and it is based on the dollar. if the imf is going to be involved in europe, all these bailouts are going to come throughout dollar t makes the dollar go up a bunch and our new york baimtion banks will be involved -- banks will be involved in the financing and interest rates on these bailouts which is really bullish for the stock market. people have been scratching their heads why is the stock market so strong. i think it's the imf and whole situation. i think it is. >> let's go back to something else. i don't know how many times we said we're in a real world market at this point in time. if the dollar value goes up a lot, it's more costly, are we going to be able to maintain our exports and next question what's that's going to do to the use in the country for our products? >> yes, we can maintain the exports. dollar will go up, but from the long term historical perspective, it's relatively cheap back at the turn of the

millennium, it was 1.20. it's cheap overall. the world is shrinking. the need for protein and feed continues to grow. our technology is barely up with demand. we're kind in no man's land with corn and beans as far as prices and supply. we'll probably see prices decline. if we have anything left big crops or perceived weather issues, markets will rally quickly. point is we'll see a lot of volatility with the potential for a lost volatility that will change overnight. >> i heard you say inbetween the words we'll have to have about as big a crop as we had last year. >> that's what i'm saying. the market is in this mind seth that we can grow corn seed in a gravel pit or pond and have record yields. i think that's a mistake to assume that. the fact is we've had a lot of issues last couple of years. what we've also had is rains make grain. we've had a lot of yields and a lot of production. priors recognizing that now through a decline this winter, but whether starts all over again right now.

>> andy, you were nodding your head when he was saying things on there. what were you nodding about? >> i think in general the market, the demand side of it won't change that much. it's pretty strong demand. we need big crops here in the usa for corn and a big crop in china, too. it takes a lot of good luck to get those done each year. i think you have to have some hope. >> really, we're going to have to pull together. we are in a world market, no question about that at this point in time. we'll come back with more on the "u.s. farm report" in just a moment.

guests on round table this week, andy schissler and brian dougherty. andy, what should a producer, i'm talk about agriculture producer here in the united states be doing now besides wishing they could get in the

field? >> i think look at your situation and understand that yesterday we had a pretty bad day in the market. sort of shook up the client base of a lot of groups and makes farmers really nervous and the emotion gets in there and makes them want to sell grain on the lows and you see this negativity and maybe you lose hope and things like that. you know, this is one of those times i think you step back and just prepare yourself to sell rallies and don't get caught up in the emotion when prices are down and when they're bad. just find something else to do whether work on your planner or something else. we just had a sell signal on beans earlier in the week. our sell signals haven't been lasting very long. our sell signal on beans is like three days. our sell signal on corn i think we had the end of february was like one day. our markets relatively weak and the opportunities are less and our markets are contracting. i think be ready to sell the rallies you're getting, but don't sell stuff on the hole,

but just be ready to sell if the future. >> you said earlier in the first segment we were in the milled of corn and beans at this point in time. the other side of it is, i'm going to ask you the same question i asked andy. what should a producer be doing -- >> you i think most producer like to have a -- producers like to have a profit. let's look at it from a profit stand pint sometimes the market doesn't offer you a profit. sometimes you have to be deceptive of your marketing alternatives and strategies. right now we can sit back and say let's not do anything. when you look at a corn chart, we've bumped up against resistance twice in the last month and we put a head and shoulders formation. everything points to lower right now. you can sit on your hands and wait which might work, or if we have good planting conditions and things don't get better, price could continue to erode and erode. when we look at the market, we look at different scenarios that could play themselves out. i would be encouraging producers to not chase the

market with cash sales because you should have cash sales in place for 2010. i would approach it defensively with some type of an option strategy or option play by december puts. you can buy a 390 put. 410, less premium and work some type of strategy so as the bearish scenario continues to play out, you've done a good job protecting yourself. >> ok. so the idea is you can use the market in order to make money as opposed to -- >> make money or let's go this route. if we have a bearish scenario in the strategy that i put out, you're going to put yourself in position where you may not make money. if you're going to store that grain regardless, on a drop of three dollars a bushel, apply that to that price and use less of a rally in fall or beyond to recover those dollars back. >> we usually get a handful of sell signals a year. we're in the very beginning of our marketing season. i think -- >> you think there will be more? >> i think there will be more opportunities. we almost always do. i understand we're coming from

a protective down side. we don't do as much trading as that. we don't take a lot of margin position. i do mostly cash sales and i pick three or four times a year to sell the cash. we're look for one or two more. >> let's look for livestock is our number one user of corn in this country and wheat and so on. number one, how is the livestock picture look in terms of using corn this year? you're smiling. >> the numbers are down. for instance, the dairy market has been hampered significantly with low price. you're going to see more cow slaughter and those type of numbers so your livestock feed usage numbers are down. livestock market has significant rally in the last three months, cattle and hog. consequently with that, there's good profits out there. you'll start to seat perception that these herds are going to expand. usage will be down compared to previous years when we had bigger herds. everything is cyclical. it will be down, but it will start to grow and market willperceive that. >> it will start to grow.

how about guys on their inputs this year. should she be look to go thin right now? >> i think inputs are about as low as they're going to be. you look at lock in inputs. i really don't like to lock a lot of deferred inputs unless i can get price put together with it. that was the catastrophic mistake of a lost farmers thinking this price of an input was the right price to lock in and the futures in corn when you get there aren't what you thought they were going to be. i see that as a problem. going back to the demand side, high cattle prices is a really good thing for our farmers in corn right now and i see beyond our country go over into china, i believe they're going to need around 55 million metric tons more of all grains this year. it puts the overall demand picture pretty good. >> ok. thank you both for being here today. we'll be back with more "u.s. farm report" in just a moment. congratulations to tom thurman of fremont, nebraska,

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"u.s. farm report" weather is brought to you by mana, mana is the right crop protection partner because our proven products and value price give you better choice. that's why mana makes sense. >> welcome back to "u.s. farm report". most areas east of the continental divide really not seeing any problems as far as the drought monitor. there are still dry areas especially northern sections of wisconsin, a few surrounding states there. it's really western areas that are on the dry side. even these looks are not that bad for this time of the year in most areas because a lot of sections already start the year

dry. typically, typically this time of the year. that's something we'll be watching. most of you are concerned about the wet fields, the wet topsoil than the long term drought situation. here is the jet stream as we head into the week. still a trough. this is a shot of arctic air. it's going to skim through the northern tier of states rand the great lakes and the northeast and then middle of the week, that will move away a ridge builds into the great lakes and eventually the northeast as we head through this week. another trough coming in out west. that will be another shot of cold air coming into the western plains as we head into friday and saturday. that could be a fairly wet system the way it looks right there. that's something we'll be watching as well as you're trying to get into the fields and parts of the plains. let's go day by day. you can see on monday we'll is a system in the eastern sections of the country. showers and thunderstorms in florida. rain up and down the eastern seaboard a little bit of snow in the far northern fringe of that. again, pretty cold air with this system. that's continuing to move eastward. another front coming into the pacific northwest with rain and

mountain snows out there. by wednesday then, that first front kind of moving slowly through the plains states. not very wet yet either. a lot of sunshine there and much warmer temperatures in the lower great lakes and ohio valley. another system coming in out west will cause rain and a little bit of mountain snow with that a little moisture, scattered thunderstorms in parts of the southeast. by friday, that front doesn't move very far. everything is kind of coming together there. there is going to be a strip of rain and maybe snow in the far western areas t continues warm and dry -- it continues warm and dry farther east. we'll continue the forecast in our next half hour.

one of the business buzz words of the day is disintermediatation. this is an awkward mouthful meaning eliminating the middle man 'em especially in the

service industry. technology is make entire job description obsolete or much less in demand. when we buy airline tickets or stocks on-line, we bypass travel agents and stockbrokers for example. this lowers costs for consumers, but presents a stark future for the workers involved. more recently, sophisticated computer techniques perfected by google and other information companies are rewriting business plans for media and advertising. it is insurance information technology that things could really change at our local level. while older consumers like me have gotten used to having someone handle paperwork and sort through the option, i suspect this business model is dated. the success of companies like geico and progressive is change the landscape for car insurance. i see little reason why it could not do so for similar productsment for farmers, it's hard not to envision buying crop insurance on-line at much lower costs. as efforts to reduce the subsidy to crop insurance build under budget pressure, the

ballooning agent commissions seem like a prime target and internet delivery looks like the perfect bullet. please, let us know what you think. send e-mails to info@-- usfarmreport.com. coming up in our -- info@usfarmreport.com. coming up, a family log in their dna. stay with us. the next half of "u.s. farm report" is coming up.

"u.s. farm today on "u.s. farm report", the need for increased food assistance may impact popular ag programs. the fcc pushed for broad band coverage is good news over the last 5%. milk producers wonder if the dale dairy rally is over. "u.s. farm report" brought to you by chevy and their award- winning cars, instruction and crossovers. hello and welcome to "u.s. farm report". i'm john phipps. it is unreasonable, of course torques expect public programs to be perfect. the recently passed health care reform is an example. while it will reduce the number of uninsured drastically, it will not get to 100%. last 5% or so of everything is usually too expensive to

accomplish. unfortunately, rural residents are often in that 5%. the recently announced push to make our broad band service in the u.s. more competitive could help many of us who are constantly looking for better and faster internet. i realize we are costly to serve, so every time i see such efforts aimed at that last 5%, i recognize with gratitude the cost involved. let's get started now with the headlines and al pell. thank you, john. hello, everyone. legislation that would fund childhood nutrition programs could come at the expense of a popular conservation program. the healthy hunger free kids act of 2010 was passed by the senate ag committee this week. it was set aside $4.5 billion over the next 10 years to fight childhood obesity. with part that have funding coming from the environmental quality incentives program which is better known as equipped. if passed, the legislation would crete create new standards for school lunch and

breakfast programs naights nationwide. every day, more than 30 million kids take part in the national school lunch program. rural broad band will get a boost from the american recovery and reinvestment act as a price tag of $150 million. the ag department says it will fund 12 infrom a structure projects and eight -- in eight states aimed at expanding broad band connect test across farm country. states that would benefit include alaska, arizona, illinois, kansas, north dakota, oklahoma and texas. following months of depressed prices, the national farmers union is calling on the usda to step up assistance to dairy producers nationwide. with prices hovering below the cost of production for more than a year, president roger johnson says the usda must "increase dairy support prices to a level that will provide relief to producers to insure our nation continues to have a viable domestic milk supply." johnson notes more than 2,000

dairies have gone out of business due to low prices. that's it for news. mike hoffman joins us from the maps now with our national forecast. "u.s. farm report" weather is brought to you by mana. mana is the right crop protection partner because our proven products and value prices give you better choices. that's why mana makes sense. we're going to start the week with a trough still in the eastern parts of the country. that will mean it's going to be on the chilly side all the way into the southeast. pretty cold air in the northern parts of the great lakes. most of this system still going to be rain the way it looks as we head into the first part of the week a little snow in the far northern tip and showers and thunderstorms into florida. we start to see a warmup into the southwestern plains. that will be expanding as well. next system coming into the pacific northwest with rain and mountain snows that. doesn't blast eastward. you'll notice by wednesday that trough in the east is being

replaced by a ridge that's building farther eastward much warmer air into the middle mississippi valley even the ohio valley and the lower great lakes probably going to see some of that big warmup. these are just scattered afternoon variety thurmts thunderstorms, parts of florida -- thunderstorms parts of florida into the gulf coast states. you'll notice a trough digging in out west and that intensifies as we head into friday with a pretty good trough into this area. that's going to mean some rain for parts of the southwest, western texas on up into the northern plains states. a little bit of snow in the western fringe and higher elevation in the rockies and another system coming into pacific northwest. let's take a look at the temperatures next week. that will be for april 4- through the 10th. we'll go above normal for a large chunk as you can see. most of the areas from the continental divide to texas, great lakes even into the appalachian chain even maybe farther east of that normal temperatures in the southeast. the only below normal area probably the western quarter of the country. precipitation for next weekend

below normal up and down the eastern seaboard a little moisture coming into the northwest and into the northern plains, western great lakes. we'll go above normal in those areas. 90-day outlook for temperatures near normal for a good chunk of the area. we'll shove that below normal we've seen a lot in the east all the all the way down to the gulf coast area, above normal for the pacific west coast. from about ohio river valley on into florida otherwise near normal for most areas a little bit of above normal -- below normal i should say montana and north dakota. john? >> thanks, mike. i like it. when "u.s. farm report" returns, thinking smarter and smaller fuel success for a mississippi logging company. "spirit of the heartland" is next. when it comes to

running a successful logging operation, being the best doesn't when it comes to running a successful

orr when it comes to -- >> when it comes to running a successful logging operation, being the best doesn't necessarily mean you have to be the biggest. in this report from mississippi university, they introduce us to family that proves this point. >> reporter: like many loggers, terry owen on the right and jim owen on the left learn their dpraft their dad, walt owen who is standing in the center between them. terry and jim had left their dad and uncle's company and formed their own logging

operation in may 1998. from the beginning, the brothers shared a different philosophy than their dad about logging. it was about having a life outside of the woods. the owen brothers started small and have remained small on purpose. a local timber beyer they have -- buyer they have worked with from the beginning found a good reason to cut fewer trees and have a shorter workday. >> we changed from a books operation, owen logging. i run a criew. we do 12, 14 loads a day. my little brother run a criew. they were doing basic lead same thing. we went to work with lane. he didn't want a ohio production -- a higher production operation. coming up, my family, my dad, he was always working. never had time to come see a ballgame, and so i didn't want to be like that with my family.

>> i thought the quality of work meant a lot of repeat business. we talked, we discussed it. we kicked it around and decided about six load a day, three-man crews is where you need to be. days longer hours and need more wood, you can up it. in hard times and quotas and slow times, you can get by. >> owen brothers log something known for respecting the land and promoting use of best management practices. the crew host add teachers' conservation workshop on a job site in recent years to explain their work inside a stream side management zone. both terry and jim owen are fully trained in all modules of the sustainable forest initiative and follow those principles on every job. >> we know to stay back from runs, try to keep debris out and we're trying to help mother nature. you know, as long as we do that and we keep replanting and we select cuts, only clear cut

when it's needed. you know, that's the only thing i can say our future generation will still have trees. you know, they might be in debt from the government over the head, but they'll still have trees. >> terry owen does wonder who will be harvesting the trees in the future. he thinks there needs to be an organized effort to educate young people about a career as a logger and why it's important to the environment and our economy. >> logging in the '60s and '70s, you were proud to be a part of that. you could find folks that wanted to work and enjoyed it. now young people don't have interest in this type work. they want to sit behind a computer or some kind of degree job. what the answer is? i don't know. the way it's looking 10 years

from now, it won't be very few loggers. nobody wants to get into it. i guess you have to have pine tar in your blood. >> owen brothers logging makes a positive contribution to the forest industry in the state every day and has now for over 11 years. the crew also does its work in an extremely safe manner. there has not been one reported accident winn since owens brothers was formed since 1998. i'm lleyton stan reporting. for their efforts, owen brothers logging was named the outstanding logger of the year for the state of mississippi. when we come back, we hear from baxter black. please, stay with us. >> if you grow corn, you're eligible to wane honda big red muv. to enter g-to muv sweepstakes.com sponsored by dupont prequel herbicide.

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weekly visit from time for a weekly visit from baxter blafnlgt today, he has a -- black. today, he has a story of a denture-stealing dog. it's not easy being missionaries distributing religious pamphlets door to door. homeowners will go to extremes it seems to avoid listening to you. audrey and her husband, walter, from british columbia around frazier lakement they're cattle people and run the place pretty much by themselves. walter had gone out to check the cows one morning. after doing breakfast diss, audrey headed out to the -- breakfast dishes, audrey headed out to do something. she was surprised and hit the gravel six feet away. in the time it took her to blink, daisy, her new pup raced in and scooped up the dentures and was off like a shot. here, daisy, here daisy. good dogment you're a good

puppy. come, daisy. sit, stay, daisy. come here, you miserable, little excuse for a mongrel offspring. your cat chasing, sorry, no good -- here, daisy, no, no, get over here before i pound you into taco meat! daisy and the old dog, blue, were making big circles in the yard with audrey hot on their heels ultimately coaxing and cussing the canine teeth thief. they raced to the -- she raced to the backdoor porch and dived n audrey followed till she was waist deep and wrestled the precious dentures from daisy. just as she started to back out, she heard gravel crunch and a car door slam. footsteps to the backdoor. the voice of two women were introducing themselves and asking audrey personal questions about her religion. actually, they were talking to

audrey's protruding backside. audrey had her teeth in her handment they were slippery, sticky and covered in dirt. she had a short conversation from inside the dog house and very quickly the ladies departed. as audrey breathed a sigh of relief, she heard one of the ladies say "you know, some people will go to any length." this is baxter black from out there. >> next week, baxter offers his opinion of what a two-man job covers. until then, check out his work on-line at baxterblack.com. when we come back, it's time for trals and -- for "tractor tales". miss any of the story? head to usfarmreport.com. i knew it wasn't gonna be easy. some things take awhile to come back.

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we head back to southern california this week for a unique "tractor tales". actually, we're featuring a truck, euclid track truck may look a little rough, but it's had a very rich history. >> this is a 1934 euclid. we estimate the year is around 1934. we're not entirely positive. this is the same yu clid company that -- euclid company is famous for manufacturing all sorts of off-road equipment, bulldozers, large dump trucks. this was their first for ray into the -- foray into the off- road truck market. before that, they had never tried trucks before. this was originally about a 7 1/2 cubic yard capacity dump truck. it was a model they referred to as their track truck because of the way the rear wheels were originally designed on it. they had large paddles on them to assist in traction. this model was initially developed for use on boulder dam to compete with the mack model a. p.'s and some of the other trucks that were offered

by different manufacturers that was international. it is a shaft dry unit with a plan terry reduction rear axle, duel reduction rear axle. it's not chain drive. if i remember right there, 517 cubic inches. sometime around after world war ii, it was purchased by a construction equipment operator up in the los angeles area. this fellow started amassing different bitz and piece of equipment over the years. this trum truck was one of them. we don't know if the truck was converted by him to the boom truck configuration or it had been con vertd. that's the automatic overload device. before the the way that the boom was arranged, it was set at a hire angle and would pickup about seven tons before the front wheels would lift off the ground. we believe the wench on the intak about a 15-ton garrwood wench probably came off a clay

track model mg2 bomber nurse. very likely world war ii surplus. >> what do people say about it when they see it? >> they pretty much cannot believe that it is actually operable. more often than not when i'm showing people around the museum on an off day, i'll just waltz them by this truck and point it out and ask them do you think that vehicle runs? always they answer nope, no way. do you think it can't run? it's such a rusty, ugly mess, it's got to be absolutely horrible. but it runs and it runs pretty well. from 1920 till the 1950s, the euclid company of ohio specialized in building heavy duty trucks for construction work. it was then purchased and converted into a section of general motors. today, we honor the st. john's united church of christ in elmore, ohio. they mark their 150th

anniversary in february. settlers from the reformed and lutheran churches in europe started the congregation and erected the first church home in 1860. it featured an 800-pound bell that doubled as the town fire alarm. present turch church replace that had building in 1920. several other comem commemoration activities are planned including a community choir, banquets and a home coming later in the fall. our thanks to winnie chaften. the second church is in tipton eye waw. although it's been closed since november 2009, former members and the cedar county historical society moved the structure over six miles from town along with the unfortunately named bed bug school and a blacksmith shop, the church was added to a growing pioneer village. as always, we want to learn about your home church as well. salutes can be sent to the address on the screen. please, stay with us. the mill bag is next. -- the mailbag is next.

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closed captioning brought to you by optimum brand innovations from pioneer hybrid. science with service delivering success. time now for a weekly look inside the old "u.s. farm report" mailbag. the e-mail of the month award goes to maple syrup producer in new york. i was wondering if anyone has advised you of the terrible maple sap harvest. the commercial folks must be taking a massive, hard hit. we continue to collect what little is running, but it's cloudy, low sugar and very little. after a good, cold winter, the warm spring didn't allow the cold below freezing overnights we had last year to get the trees pumping.

appalachian new yuck, love the land, hate the taxes. love the sign off. thanks for the crop report. i know nothing about maple syrup production. checking blogs around the country showed 2010 to be one of the poorest to date in some places. maine started three weeks early and results were very spotty. our friends to the north in quebec who produce 80% of the world's maple syrup are just getting started and it looks like a good run. i guess location counts for everything. this winter's strange weather pattern seems to be having strange consequences. the bigger issue for maple syrup producer is how little real maple syrup is in those bottles on our breakfast tables. read the labels, folks. make sure you're buying the new stuff. the tax problem is likely to get worse i'm afraid. as always, we want to matter from you. send comments to info@usfarmreport.com or leave as you voice mail at 800-792- 4329. for al and mike, i'm john

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