Money Matters: Pot’s Promise, Cartel’s Threats, and Organic Dairy’s Boost
California’s avocado industry questions a USDA decision, which would turn over inspections to Mexico. One of the country’s largest states...
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Brooke Bouma Kohlsdorf
Sep 203 min read
Land Values Defy Outside Forces in Heavy Ag State, New Survey Finds
Edited by: Dave Price The farm economy has been a challenging one for many producers in 2024. It is a continuation of the decline from...
Dave Price
Sep 203 min read
The Fed Finally Acts
“Go big or go home.” That is how the saying goes. The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) decided to go big and then go home. Now we see...
Dave Price
Sep 203 min read
Money Matters: Hemp Lawsuit, Expanding Meat Processing, and Growing Disease-Resistant Grapes
Hemp is a growing industry in part of the United States. One state association is suing because of new “emergency rules.” New federal...
Dave Price
Sep 132 min read
Challenges and Opportunities: Northwest Wildfire Recovery, Expanding Alaska Grains, and Banning Cultivated Meat
A statewide association is working to help ranchers in Oregon recover from wildfires that threatened both their cattle and feed for their...
Dave Price
Sep 133 min read
Money Matters: Farmers' Better Numbers, Seafood's Hope, and Broken Tax Cut Promise
Farmers got welcome news when a USDA report showed income projections would not be as bad as first thought. The seafood industry hopes...
Dave Price
Sep 133 min read
Predicting the Fed's Next Move
After months of speculation, we should soon know how much the Federal Open Market Committee will reduce borrowing costs. The federal...
Dave Price
Sep 62 min read
Youth Movement
Younger Americans may have a better chance to break ground on a career in farming if they had access to expanded crop insurance to...
Dave Price
Sep 62 min read
Challenges and Opportunities: Mega Fertilizer Deal, Agricultural Success by Changing, and Care for Older Farmers
Farmers and investors will find out if a massive fertilizer acquisition will limit their supply options and raise their costs....
Dave Price
Sep 63 min read
Money Matters: Interest Rate Warning, Farm Bill Failure, and Pipeline’s CEO Addresses Challenges
Investors are eying the middle of September when the Federal Reserve Board will meet and decide whether to lower borrowing costs. One...
Dave Price
Aug 303 min read
Challenges and Opportunities: Pipeline Approved, Vaccine Approved, and New Leader
A company hoping to build a five-state pipeline found progress in one state as it pushes for it in another state. A farmland investment...
Dave Price
Aug 302 min read
Money Matters: A Number for the Fed, Smaller Cuts for Cornhuskers, and a Deere Reminder
September looks to be the month that unemployment numbers will spur action that reduces interest rates. One state’s residents won’t see...
Dave Price
Aug 302 min read
Expecting Export Decline
Lower crop prices + limited beef supplies + increased competition from Brazil = a record projected U.S. agricultural deficit, according...
Dave Price
Aug 233 min read
Challenges and Opportunities: Rate Cuts, No Recession, Pipeline Ruling, and Fried Cicadas
Borrowers, future borrowers, and investors could have reason to appreciate a significant revision of the nation’s employment numbers. The...
Dave Price
Aug 232 min read
Failed Again
Raise your hand if you saw this coming. (We suspect many hands just went up.) It seems all but certain that Congress will not pass a new...
Dave Price
Aug 233 min read
Temporary or Permanent?
As farmland owners and investors wait for lower interest rates, they have a much different wait than thousands of Midwest workers: those...
Dave Price
Aug 163 min read
New Opportunities for Beans and Cottons, Future Farmers, and Undecided Voters
Producers in two industries -- soybeans and cotton -- may find themselves part of record harvests in 2024. A university is working to...
Dave Price
Aug 162 min read
Two States' Land Values Heading in Different Directions
Two “I” states are separated geographically by a third, but they are also separated in another way right now: the direction of their land...
Dave Price
Aug 163 min read
Project 25 on Agriculture's Future
Ideas are no guarantee to become policy. Proposals are no certainty to become law. But one that spans more than 900 pages has some...
Dave Price
Aug 92 min read
In Other News
U.S. stock markets, even with Monday’s fall, have produced record after record high. Investors have largely pushed aside dire predictions...
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