Add Profit with Extended Rotation

By: Raylene Nickel

Jeff Steffen learned a lot about risk management while growing corn and soybeans through the 1980s on his family’s farm near Crofton, Nebraska. Then, poor crop prices coupled with dry weather robbed profitability.

Some years later, prices and weather turned around, but Steffen was determined to make changes to prepare for the future. “I wanted to get ready for when farming conditions might go south again,” he says.