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Hows does the government expect farmers to grow cotton and be able to make money with the price it’s at? Is there a turn around in this trend? Another thing is how do fertilizer companies expect farmers to be able to pay these unreal prices on fertilize? Input costs are getting out of hand! On the bright side fuel price went down....some.

Josh Vrieze has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After being an engineer for 5 years with a milking equipment manufacturer, he switched his focus to Sales and Marketing, for the next 2 years working with dealers, and farms in Asia, Australia and Europe. Josh has also worked in the manure equipment industry and just recently began working in the employee benefits field. E-mail him at jjvrieze@hotmail.com.

Josh Sylvester is a Certified Financial Planner and member of the Farm Journal Legacy Project team. Through years of working with high net worth clients, Josh has refined strategies that help clients reach their succession goals. He is a Chartered Financial Consultant with the qualifications, ability, and knowledge to design highly personalized succession strategies for each family agribusiness owner. You can contact him by phone at (87)523-7411.

John Petrie (vice president, managing director and head trader for WCHS.) Oversees the daily operations of the Ag Marketing division of Walsh Trading Inc. John began trading in 1998, specializing in advanced options strategies, inter-market spreads and arbitrage between the open-outcry and the electronic futures and options markets. He has spent the last 6 years working directly with top agricultural and livestock producers and end-users to help to manage their risk associated with today’s volatile markets.

The 2008 Farm Journal Forum is being held Dec. 2 – 4 in Washington D.C. This blog will help you prepare for the event, along with supplying photos, video and audio from the Forum. The 2008, entitled What will change bring? Impacts of a New Congress and Administration in the New Era of Agriculture, is likely to be a one-of-a-kind event. Don’t miss it. Learn more at www.FarmJournalForum.com.

Farm Journal’s Machinery Doc brings his tractor-seat common sense to AgWeb Iron. As a full-time farmer and former machinery salesman, Doc knows the value of a good used-equipment buy. He applies his horse sense and farmer perspective to working with IRON Solutions to track used machinery values for his Machinery Doc column. He and his wife, Layna, farm near Pine Village Ind.

Kent Braathen is a custom harvester. With this blog he will cover the harvest trail starting out in Vernon, Texas, continuing on to Kiowa, Kan., Eades, Colo., Phillip, S.D., Onida, S.D. and Minot, N.D. He will also report throughout the fall during soybean, corn and sunflower harvest in N.D. and S.D. Kent and his partner, along with a crew of nine young men from South Africa and a nephew, run five John Deere 9770 combines, two tractors and carts and five semi tractors and trailers.

I was raised in Marshall, MO although I was gone several years to attend college, manage a rock quarry and farm, and then returned to my home. While in college I earned a bachelors degree in psychology and political science and later a masters degree in clinical psychology. For over twenty years I owned and managed a private system of comprehensive clinical mental health clinics in rural Missouri and I manage our family farm, which currently is approximately 1500 acres. Farming has been a big part of my life since I was a child as I started “helping” when I was a ripe old age of 5. I have been married for over 30 years to the most wonderful lady in the world (I hope she is reading this!) and it amazes me that she has put up with me all these years. Jerri Lou and I have three adult children and one granddaughter and a grandson who is soon to join us.

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BHS Energy designs and manufactures biomass briquette fuel presses and is currently taking orders for pre-production Slugger systems for field testing. Normal production is planned to begin in the Summer of 2009. For more information please visit our website at www.bhsenergy.com