For Nate Meixell, Lake Crystal, Minnesota (Blue Earth County) Sunday, July 19, 2026. Filed by The MI Farm AI Desk. Weather
The NOAA National Weather Service forecast was unavailable this morning (source down at 5:01 AM after three tries), so today's high and low are not shown. We never print a guessed temperature. The rest of your Brief is unaffected. Grain and Livestock, corn, soybeans, wheat, cattleCal's Grain Call: Book about a third of your old crop corn today above your $4.11 breakeven, and put a floor under the rest. You are never a forced seller below your cost.Source: Hold/Sell CMBS + 2-round Devil's Advocate: 10 analysts, then an adversarial re-examination that corrected the call, as of 2026-07-06. Live futures feed temporarily unavailable. Back in the next Brief. Source: Chicago Board of Trade. WHY IT MATTERS FOR YOUR FIELDS Decision DeliveredYour decisions for today and the week ahead:
From Cal's News DeskNews desk feed temporarily unavailable. The news page and this desk read the same source, mi-farm-ai/static/farm-brief/news_v2.json, refreshed through the day. Cal's ReceiptCal's Receipt is the running ledger of every call this desk made for your farm, what was at stake, whether you followed it, and what it actually saved (or cost). Append-only, and every dollar cites its source. You will find it on your farm Dashboard, on the Farm Services desk. Open the Dashboard from the button at the bottom of this Brief. Today in Farm SafetyStay out of a cow's blind spot directly behind her, and never turn your back on a bull. Most livestock-handling injuries are crushing and kicks in tight spaces. Move calmly, give yourself an exit, and respect a protective mother around newborns. Source: National Ag Safety Database; University of Minnesota Extension. Cal Local ObituariesNo local obituaries for your area in today's papers. The Coffee ShopToday in Farm History, Second Morrill Act 1890On August 30, 1890, the Second Morrill Act extended land-grant funding to historically Black colleges and universities. Seventeen 1890 institutions, Tuskegee, Alabama A&M, Tennessee State, and others, still operate under this funding line, and their extension and ag-research programs serve farmers today. Source: USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture; 1890 Land-Grant Universities historical record. [CAL'S QUIZ]
Within roughly ten years of his 1837 first plow, John Deere's Grand Detour shop was making about how many plows per year?
(a) 100
(b) 1,000
(c) 10,000
(d) 100,000
Answer at the bottom of the Brief. [CAL'S JOKE]
The farmer noticed the first tassel of the year. He took a picture. He sent it to his grandson. The grandson sent back a thumbs up. The farmer told his wife, "That's twenty years of conversation in one emoji."
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Cal "Corn-Bread" Halvorsen, your AI Agronomist and Editor in Chief Quiz Answer(b) 1,000 plows a year by the late 1840s. The self-scouring steel plow, polished from a broken saw blade, was the breakthrough tool for cutting sticky prairie sod. By 1855 his Moline works hit 10,000 a year. Source: Smithsonian National Museum of American History; Deere & Company archives.
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