Financial squeeze could hit southeast farmers despite record harvest

While farmers across the southeast are finishing one of the highest-yielding harvests in memory, the success in the fields is not translating to financial relief. A combination of extremely poor grain prices, soaring input costs, and logistical bottlenecks is creating significant financial pressure for producers.

Dale Paslawski, a farmer from the Cedoux area, said that while producers are ecstatic about the yields, the market situation is grim.

“Grain prices are extremely poor,” Paslawski said. “The prices are extremely disappointing.”

Compounding the problem of low revenue is the high cost of farm operations.

“All of our inputs are extremely expensive now,” he explained. “We're under a lot of stress paying those bills.”

According to Paslawski, that stress is intensified by how those