Editors' Notebook

OMAHA (DTN) -- The temperature in Omaha near noon on Thursday is a brisk 10, but it feels like 4. So it may seem a bit premature to write about spring field work and the upcoming growing season. But for our brethren down South, turning the soil and firing up the planters and drills is just around the corner.

As spring nears so does the launch date for our annual View From the Cab series. In this series, we feature two producers from varying parts of the country. After a weekly visit with each, DTN Special Correspondent Richard Oswald writes up a report on what's going on with their operations -- the trials, tribulations and joys that all farm readers will find familiar or interesting.

Last year's View From the Cab featured Karen and Bill Johnson of Avoca, Iowa, and Jamie Harris from Madison, Florida. The Johnsons produce beef with a 50-head herd, raise hay, and grow corn and soybeans. Jamie works with his father and brother producing 10 crops -- corn, peanuts, soybeans, iron clay peas, oats, cereal rye, triticale, sweet corn, broccoli and blueberries.

We are looking for producers who might want to be featured in the 2015 version of View From the Cab. We are particularly interested in growers who have switched acreages lately -- not just the usual corn/soybean rotation but made some major change such as getting out of a major crop and picking up a minor one, or vice versa. But if you are interested in being featured, don't let the fact that you haven't made any major acreage changes stop you from raising your hand.

Those interested in being considered for View From the Cab should email cheri.zagurski@dtn.com with contact information and a brief description of your operation. I'll share that info with Richard and he and DTN Editor in Chief Greg Horstmeier will pick our two participants.

If you're not interested in a weekly commitment, but wouldn't mind contributing opinions and updates occasionally, perhaps you'd like to be added to my reader consulting group. We share questions and comments via email and some of those I also share with all DTN subscribers via the Editors' Notebook blog or DTN Ag News pages. If this appeals to you, again just email me at cheri.zagurski@dtn.com.

In the two hours it has taken me to write this (including time out for lunch) the temp has risen to 14 in the Omaha area and it feels like 5! Surely spring is just around the proverbial corner.

Cheri Zagurski can be reached at cheri.zagurski@dtn.com

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