June 5, 2013 in The Daily Republic
According to the Kansas City bank’s most recent ag credit survey, climbing input prices, “dampened crop prices” and “high feed and forage prices” have slowed land values a bit.
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May 30, 2013 in The Daily Republic
SD rancher: “Somebody needs to ask why taxpayers are guaranteeing my neighbors $300 and $400 an acre profit through federal crop insurance to farm ranchland when I can’t buy any insurance let alone subsidized insurance Continue Reading
May 23, 2013 in The Daily Republic
It’s one of American agriculture’s best truisms: Only six people in the world understand U.S. dairy policy and none of the six milks cows.
It’s not true, of course. Only four people understand U.S. dairy policy.
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May 9, 2013 in The Daily Republic
The first good corn planting day of spring finally arrived at my central Illinois farmette April 30. Like the month’s previous 29 days, however, no one within 100 miles used it to plant because near-record rains had washed April away.
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May 2, 2013 in The Daily Republic
Cuts to food aid will cut farm sales and profits. Continue Reading
May 2, 2013 in The Daily Republic
Cuts to food aid will cut farm sales and profits. Continue Reading
April 25, 2013 in The Daily Republic
Chicago Cubs baseball fans and American cow-calf ranchers have two things in common. First, they can’t win for losing and, second, they pay heavily for the right to do just that.
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April 18, 2013 in The Daily Republic
Congress needs more open lawmaking and fewer lobbyists, more bottom-up debate and less top-down dismissiveness, more well-lit transparency and less in-the-dark committee work. Continue Reading
April 10, 2013 in The Daily Republic
The money underwriting it all, he claims, is not coming from a healthy, stable economy but from the Federal Reserve’s “egregious flood of phony money” that has “expanded [the Fed's] balance sheet six-fold, to $3.2 trillion from $500 billion,” since the year 2000.
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April 4, 2013 in The Daily Republic
How long will this all last? About 10 minutes longer than the end of mandated ethanol use.
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