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June 17, 2019
by David Widmar After much anticipation and speculation, the USDA’s June WASDE report adjusted 2019 corn acreage and yields lower after a slow, wet spring. This is likely the first of many production adjustments to take place of the summer. We’ve observed a wild range of estimates and speculation about where the prevented planting […]
June 10, 2019
by Brent Gloy The trend toward increasing amounts of total ag sector sales being generated by larger farms has been going on for some time, so I wasn’t planning on being surprised when I looked at table 41 of the 2017 Census of Agriculture. This table reports on the concentration of sales in the farm […]
June 3, 2019
As the bitter reality of a seemingly never-ending trade war crashes down on the farm sector it’s useful – albeit sobering- to think about the economic consequences and impacts.
May 28, 2019
While the 2019 MFP program seems very similar to the 2018 program, there are significnat difference. This post lays out what is known about MFP 2019.