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Sep 13, 20243 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 13, 20243 min read

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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 6, 20242 min read

NEWS

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...

Challenges and Opportunities: Mega Fertilizer Deal, Agricultural Success by Changing, and Care for Older Farmers

Dave Price

Sep 6, 20242 min read

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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....

Money Matters: Interest Rate Warning, Farm Bill Failure, and Pipeline’s CEO Addresses Challenges

Dave Price

Sep 6, 20243 min read

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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...

Challenges and Opportunities: Pipeline Approved, Vaccine Approved, and New Leader

Dave Price

Aug 30, 20243 min read

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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...

Money Matters: A Number for the Fed, Smaller Cuts for Cornhuskers, and a Deere Reminder

Dave Price

Aug 30, 20242 min read

NEWS

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 30, 20242 min read

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Expecting Export Decline

Lower crop prices + limited beef supplies + increased competition from Brazil = a record projected U.S. agricultural deficit, according...

Challenges and Opportunities: Rate Cuts, No Recession, Pipeline Ruling, and Fried Cicadas

Dave Price

Aug 23, 20243 min read

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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 23, 20242 min read

NEWS

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 23, 20243 min read

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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...

New Opportunities for Beans and Cottons, Future Farmers, and Undecided Voters

Dave Price

Aug 16, 20243 min read

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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...

Two States' Land Values Heading in Different Directions

Dave Price

Aug 16, 20242 min read

NEWS

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 16, 20243 min read

NEWS

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 9, 20242 min read

NEWS

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...

Dave Price

Aug 9, 20243 min read

NEWS

Cooking Oil Mystery

U.S. producers were already skeptical of used cooking oil entering the country from several other countries, including China. But now...

Dave Price

Aug 9, 20243 min read

NEWS

Protecting Pesticides

Kevin Ross has used glyphosate on his farm, believes in its ability to control weeds better than almost anything else, and he doesn’t...

American Farmland Owner

Aug 2, 20241 min read

NOTABLE SALES

Notable Sales, August 2

Jefferson County, Iowa – On July 17, 465.73 acres just outside the southeast Iowa town of Pleasant Plain were sold at a public auction....

Dave Price

Aug 1, 20242 min read

NEWS

Caught in the Middle

There are so many economic indicators, statistics, trends, cuts, gains, and projections in the agricultural industry. But who feels these...

Dave Price

Aug 1, 20243 min read

NEWS

Pass that Bill

What unites Alabama Ag Credit with the American Woodcock Society? What links Friends of the Chicago River with Georgia Milk Producers?...

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