Vance Emke
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64 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 13 Jan
Vance Emke’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Glad to be here, Amy.
Well, actually, pretty good.
We had some great apprehension about things because of the very low grain prices that we got out here.
Break-even price cover, all costs on dry land, western Kansas wheat is $7.20 a bushel, and right now we're sitting at $4.30 a bushel.
However, we had career high yields of wheat, corn, and milo.
And that basically saved our bacon because we had very high yields.
That combined with low price, it mitigated the low price.
And so we came out looking pretty good.
No, they are buying some soybeans and small amounts of grain sorghum.
But we'll just have to wait and see.
As we get into January and February here, that's historically when our South American competition soybeans come on the market, like down in Brazil and Argentina.
And we'll just have to wait and see whether the Chinese follow through on their commitments.
Well, it's definitely needed.
Yeah, farmers would definitely prefer to be getting their income out of the marketplace rather than with these emergency payments from the federal government.
But in 2021, 4% of Kansas farmers had negative farm incomes.
And in 2024, that number had jumped up to right at 30%.
The data aren't in yet for 25, but I'm really, really concerned about what we're looking at for 26.
Well, and looking into 2026, I'd say it's going to be more of the same and a lot of it looks pretty grim to me.
You know, you cannot count on having a Grand Slam home run two years in a row.
So, you know, it's going to be pretty bloody out there.
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