New Catalogs and Safflower Crop
Just 3 more weeks until summer officially begins. We’re scrambling to send out our new Des Moines Feed Co. products booklet. This is intended for not only an informational tool for your sales force, but a useful guide for your customers as well. While we don’t expect a retailer to floor stock every item, be [ Read More → ]
Grass Seeding Information
Although a cool and damp spring, lawns and shrubs are greening up. Most noticeable is a fair amount of winter kill, due to extreme temperatures this past winter with relatively less snow cover in those areas. Ironically, the Southwestern wheat-growing areas are in extreme need of moisture. The hard red winter wheat yield expectations are steadily dropping. Time [ Read More → ]
May 2014
Although a cool and damp spring, lawns and shrubs are greening up. Most noticeable is a fair amount of winter kill, due to extreme temperatures this past winter with relatively less snow cover in those areas. Ironically, the Southwestern wheat-growing areas are in extreme need of moisture. The hard red winter wheat yield expectations are [ Read More → ]
March 2014
Another snow and more cold for the Midwest. And California and the Southwestern U.S. are facing severe drought. It seems the length and severity of this winter is impacting the price of sunflowers. Final crop report figures show the 2013 sunflower harvest down 20%. This in turn is forcing the hullers and processors to bid [ Read More → ]
Sunflower Crop Down 20%
Another snow and more cold for the Midwest. And California and the Southwestern U.S. are facing severe drought. It seems the length and severity of this winter is impacting the price of sunflowers. Final crop report figures show the 2013 sunflower harvest down 20%. This in turn is forcing the hullers and processors to bid [ Read More → ]
February 2014
Brrrrr, even the deep South is getting a dose of winter! Not quite what they’re used to, nor the birds. Putting out wedges of fresh fruit, dried fruit pieces, sunflower hearts, and peanut and nut pieces will help them survive. We have a new staff member, Chris Beach, who is in sales and marketing. He’s rolling [ Read More → ]
New Staff Member
Brrrrr, even the deep South is getting a dose of winter! Not quite what they’re used to, nor the birds. Putting out wedges of fresh fruit, dried fruit pieces, sunflower hearts, and peanut and nut pieces will help them survive. We have a new staff member, Chris Beach, who is in sales and marketing. He’s [ Read More → ]
January 2014
Brrrrr, this is winter alright! But don’t you complain—think about the wild birds and wildlife that can’t come inside and sit by the fire! Remember, they are not surviving on the feed we put out for them—they are living on the energy from the feed we give them. Hence the importance of good quality feed [ Read More → ]
Why You Feed the Birds
Brrrrr, this is winter alright! But don’t you complain—think about the wild birds and wildlife that can’t come inside and sit by the fire! Remember, they are not surviving on the feed we put out for them—they are living on the energy from the feed we give them. Hence the importance of good quality feed [ Read More → ]
December 2013
Winter and the cold is on us. Snow forces the wild birds to the feeders more than just cold temperatures as such. We’re hoping the lower grain prices this year will encourage more bird feeding. As an interesting reminder—there are about 50 times the number of birds on our planet as humans. The birds that [ Read More → ]