John Phipps’ Top 10 Book Recommendations

Planting Progress: Soybeans Ahead of Five-Year Average While Corn Lags Behind

While corn and soybean prices continue to march higher, farmers are making progress getting the 2021 corn, soybean and cotton crops in the ground.

John Phipps’ Top 10 Book Recommendations

Most months John Phipps provides a book review for Top Producer. Here are some of his favorites from the past few years (in no particular order).

When Stress Goes Beyond Normal

Stress is normal, and normally stress isn’t a big deal as long as people have a means of effectively dealing with it. Dr. Matt Brosi, a marriage and family state specialist at Oklahoma State University, describes four of the major mental health issues experienced on the farm today.

Windy Conditions for Parts of the Country

Meteorologist Matt Engelbrecht has a look at the latest wind speed forecast and the important role wind will play in the weather for the rest of the week.

Oh Snap! What A Day!

We've all had one of those horrible, no good, very bad days. Well, if you need to see someone else's misfortunes to make yours seem not-so-bad, check out Farm Journal's "What a Day!”