AgribusinessThe John family near Thayer, Kansas, moved its bin site off the farmstead to leave room to grow, and university economists list the fixed and variable costs any farmer should count before building.
AgribusinessFarm manager Michael Lauher says 2026's extremes of flooding, heat and August rain make field-by-field judgement essential, that higher prices do not restore the margins that once justified aggressive rent rises, and that drainage deserves its own line in the lease.
Late rains have left Prairie farmers weighing drying against waiting; Manitoba Agriculture's Darren Bond puts drying wheat from 20% to 15% moisture at about 80 cents a bushel on a $100,000 propane batch system and 57 cents on a $500,000 natural-gas continuous-flow dryer, and says to set that against
