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5 FROM THE MANAGER
Wishing everyone a successful harvest.
EDITORIAL
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Rachael Eilts
ADVERTISING EXECUTIVE
Michelle Popek
UNITED AG
Main Office
911 S. Wharton St.
El Campo, TX 77437
979-543-6284
General Stores:
El Campo
907 S. Wharton St.
El Campo, TX 77437
979-543-7756
Eagle Lake
201 E Hwy 3013
Eagle Lake, TX 77434
979-234-2191
Danevang
11338 S. Hwy 71
Danevang, TX 77432
979-543-6723
grain/cotton
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10 CHANGES
Sale of divisions helped eliminate risk.
17 LEGAL CORNER
Plan ahead to pass down the farm.
6 GRAIN UPDATE
Plan ahead for smoother harvest.
7 CHARTS
Track changes in the markets.
8 POV UPDATE
Sorghum increasing in popularity.
9 COTTON UPDATE
Basis on the rise.
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supply
12 IT’S OPEN!
Doors open for new farm supply store.
14 CATTLE TALK
View weaning as an opportunity.
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15 WEANING OPPORTUNITY
Tools to increase your calf crop’s value.
16 GARDEN TALK
Getting ready for the summer heat.
Edna
1116 S. Wells St.
Edna, TX 77957
361-782-5051
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irst of all, I hope you all recognize the risk
that selling the agronomy department took
off your cooperative. This venture has
taken many hours of planning and working through
contracts to complete the deal. Sanders is still hiring
more agronomists to offer our members the best
knowledge and service available.
As far as other things, many have received beneficial rains, which
really helped the crop. Some received more than enough, with some
fields suffering with cotton and soybeans under water.
The gins have been repaired and we are finishing installing a new
motor control center at the Danevang gin. The electrical was very old
and gave us problems last year and it was hard finding parts for the
old starters and disconnector. We felt it was very unsafe, so this was a
must to continue to make the Danevang gin one of the most productive gins around.
We still have some work to do on the Danevang press which
should be finished in about three weeks. We are also moving the seed
house from the old First Street Gin to Danevang to increase our seed
holding capacity.
In the grain division, we continue to make final repairs to all of the
elevators. We have made significant headway in selling old crop corn
recently. Basis levels are not where we thought they would be at this
time, but corn is moving. We originally thought we would go into this
crop with 2013 crop still in the tanks, but now it looks like we’ll be very
close to empty.
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Our truck dispatch will be moved to Danevang this year. There is a
lot of traffic around Wharton Street and our parking lot was getting
more congested and dangerous. We do need help in getting coordinates to each of your farm numbers if you plan on using the coop’s
dispatched trucks. This information will be in our system, so when you
order a truck we can pull up your farm number and the trucker will
instantly have a map to that field. Please contact our grain department
to help us collect this data. It will make harvesting and dispatch work
very smoothly, and we will have mileage to every farm point to be sure
you are being charged correctly for freight.
Corn markets have slipped quite a bit lately, so be diligent of your
break-even costs and visit with our grain department about where we
can lock in profits if possible.
The biggest news was the much awaited opening of our new farm
supply store. The doors opened with a bang on June 2. All over town
and in the country, this store has caused a lot of anticipation and excitement. Hats off to our great employees who were able to