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...
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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 133 min read
What's Behind Dropping Tractor Sales?
Use a word like “adjustments.” But “panic” or “collapse?” No, those words don’t describe Curt Blades’ feelings or his views about what he...
Dave Price
Sep 63 min read
Greening with Green Methanol
When a computer scientist discovered that software wouldn’t be his preferred solution for his next project that he thinks will benefit...
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
Scouting a Record
Pro Farmer Midwest Crop Tour, where he and a team of 100 volunteers inspect corn and soybean fields across seven states. Grete talks...
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 233 min read
Tough Times Ahead but Optimism Endures
Paul Neiffer is a farm boy by birth. As an adult, he now owns farms in three states. So, he still believes in the future of farmland. But...
Dave Price
Aug 163 min read
Farming a New Future
She is a college student, farmer, emerging social media creator, and fashion designer. And she is 20 years old. But what drives Kate...
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...
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