From the Corn Belt to cattle country.
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- Bushels
- Pounds & cwt
- °F & inches of rain
Corn and soybeans in September · Bishop Hill, Illinois
Five farm countries in one country.
America farms on a scale few places match, and every region does it its own way. Here is where REALM members grow, graze and trade.
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Corn and soybeans The Corn Belt Iowa · Illinois · Indiana · Nebraska · Minnesota · Ohio Deep prairie soils, corn and soybeans in rotation, hogs and cattle feeding, and a grain elevator on every horizon. Yields are counted in bushels per acre. Harvest: mid-September to November -
Wheat, sorghum and cattle The Great Plains Kansas · the Dakotas · Oklahoma · Montana Wide-open wheat country. Winter wheat is sown in the fall and cut the next summer; Kansas is often called the Wheat State. Wheat harvest: late May (Texas) to July (north) -
Beef cattle Texas & the ranching West Texas · Oklahoma · Wyoming · Montana · Nebraska Cow-calf ranches on big rangeland and calves sold through local sale barns. Texas has more cattle than any other state. Calves sell mostly in the fall -
Milk and cheese Dairyland Wisconsin · Minnesota · New York · Idaho · California Holstein herds, red barns and cheese plants. Wisconsin proudly calls itself America’s Dairyland; milk is priced by the hundredweight (cwt). Cows are milked every day of the year -
Fruit, nuts, vegetables and dairy California’s Central Valley Sacramento & San Joaquin valleys Irrigated orchards and fields: almonds, pistachios, walnuts, grapes, tomatoes and more. California leads the nation in farm sales. Almond bloom in February, harvest in late summer
Fall across America (October)
- Winter
- Spring
- Summer
- Fall
- Harvest: corn and soybeans across the Midwest, cotton and peanuts in the South, apples and pumpkins everywhere.Grain bin capacity
- Winter wheat is sown on the Plains.Seeding rate
- Weaning and fall calf sales; fall-calving herds start calving.Livestock sale value
- Fill the silo and stack the hay before winter.Buy or sell hay
A general guide for the lower 48 states. Timing changes a lot with latitude, elevation and the year's weather; your county Extension office knows your local calendar.
Farm weather this week
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What the farm flags mean
- Frost risk: low of 36 °F (2 °C) or colder
- Heat stress: high of 95 °F (35 °C) or hotter
- Heavy rain: 1 in (25 mm) or more in the day
- Strong wind: 22 mph (10 m/s) or more - not a good spray day
Farm flags are general guides worked out from the forecast numbers only. They are not advice. Always check your local National Weather Service forecast.
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American farmers have always bought and sold face to face. REALM keeps that trust and puts it online, for every county.
- Sale barns & livestock auctionsWeekly sales where cattle go through the ring and bids are made by the pound or by the hundredweight (cwt).
- County fairs & 4-HSummer fairs where young people show the animals they raised, and whole towns come out for the livestock barns.
- Grain elevators & co-opsCorn, soybeans and wheat sold by the bushel against the elevator’s cash bid, often through a farmer-owned cooperative.
- Farm & land auctionsMachinery consignment sales, retirement auctions and farmland sold by the acre, on site or online.
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Photo credits
- Bishop Hill, Illinois: Preston Keres, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Public domain (US government work). Resized and cropped.
- Brownsburg, Indiana: U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Public domain (US government work). Resized and cropped.
- Finney County, Kansas: Chris Thurston, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Public domain (US government work). Resized and cropped.
- Henrietta, Texas: USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, Texas, Public domain (US government work). Resized and cropped.
- Westby, Wisconsin: Carol M. Highsmith (Library of Congress), Public domain. Resized and cropped.
- Hickman, California: Andrewthompson10, CC BY-SA 4.0. Resized and cropped.
- A US livestock auction (Alabama Extension photo): Bruce Dupree, Alabama Cooperative Extension System, CC0 1.0. Resized and cropped.
- Hillsboro, Oregon: M.O. Stevens, CC BY-SA 3.0. Resized and cropped.
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