Good food and good information are on the menu when the Community Foundation of Jackson County and Purdue University Cooperative Extension Service serve up the 21st annual Farmers Breakfast.
The event is set for 7:30 a.m. Feb. 15 at Pewter Hall in Brownstown. Doors open at 7 a.m. Admission is free. To attend, call us at 812-523-4483 or by emailing Lori Miller at development@cfjacksoncounty.org.
Michael Langmeier of Purdue University returns as the keynote speaker. Langmeier is a professor and extension economist in the Department of Agricultural Economics and serves as associate director of the Center for Commercial Agriculture.
He will provide an ag forecast at the meeting. We will hope that Jackson County farmers are looking forward to another strong year of production this summer.
Hoosier farmers reported record-high corn and soybean yields in 2023, according to the Indiana field office of the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Agricultural Statistics Services.
State statistician Nathanial Warenski said in a recent report that Indiana corn production totaled 1.08 billion bushels in 2023, or 11% above 2022, and soybean production across the state totaled 334 million bushels, down slightly from 2022.
Langmeier joined Purdue University in July 2012. His extension and research interests include cropping systems, benchmarking, strategic management, cost of production and technical and economic efficiency.
Most of his research has focused on the efficiency of farms and ranches, and crop and livestock enterprise production costs and efficiency. He has also conducted research related to tillage systems, biomass crops and the tradeoff between crop rotation profitability and water quality.