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Diversity Helps Manage Margins | A Seed Enterprise Broadens Efficiencies, Revenues
2013-01-17 01:32:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
Keith and Brian Berns rarely get a day off in their corn, soybean and rye/triticale rotation. Their separate entity, a cover-crop seed operation, makes sure of it. But the diversified enterprises provide more overall profit potential in volatile marketing environments. The Berns brothers no-till about 2,500 acres outside Bladen, Neb.; about 30% of those are irrigated. Some of both irrigated and dryland acres are used for cover-crop seed production, marketed through Green Cover Seed. The brothers company, formed in 2009, markets several lines of legumes, broadleaves, grasses and radishes, turnips and other exotic Brassicas. read more
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CHS earnings fall 17 percent, hurt by oil margins
2013-01-11 09:54:14| Agriculture - Topix.net
CHS Inc, the largest U.S. farm and refining cooperative, said on Thursday its quarterly earnings fell 17 percent from a year ago, hurt by lower margins at its petroleum refineries in Montana and Kansas.
Woolworths NZ profit up 29% on increased sales at fatter margins
2013-01-08 08:36:43| Grocery - Topix.net
Woolworths New Zealand, which accounts for about 40 percent of the country's supermarket sales, boosted its annual profit 29 percent as it squeezed more out of increasing revenue.
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Chances for Insurable Margins Again for 2013
2013-01-07 00:15:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
With the likelihood of lower premium rates and better overall coverage, federal revenue crop insurance should provide farmers with tools to potentially insure profit margins for 2013 crops, says Bruce Sherrick, a University of Illinois farmdoc farm management specialist. He stresses that with crop price protection levels likely in the $5.70/bu. range for corn and about $12.75/bu. for soybeans, adequate margins may be insurable again this year. read more
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