ELY, Iowa — With inflation and rising input costs for farmers, United States Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack said creativity is the what’…
Updating results
From bread to pasta, wheat is a staple ingredient in U.S. pantries. Wheat farmers are doing their best to grow their wheat crop, but many outs…
Inflation is on the rise. The Consumer Price Index increased to 8.5 percent for the year ending March 2022, and decreased slightly to 8.3 perc…
Inflation has been a hot topic in the U.S. for the past few months. While it affects everyone, farmers and ranchers are seeing higher rates of…
There is little doubt that for many, 2021 wound up being a good year. What we tend to forget is the years prior, in which weather, price, COVID and cost resulted in many food producers truly pondering whether or not that family operation would be able to continue.
As we were driving away with our grocery purchase, Penny said, “You know, there’s not much in those three bags to account for $96.” I had not thought about price versus content but she had a point.
Current times have had many agriculturalists drawing parallels to the 1980s. The summer of 2021 has been compared to the crippling drought of …
Dear Michael: As usual, we did not get our estate planning done in the year 2021 – the same as the past 10 years. We were going to do somethin…
"We need to understand how this once-in-this-generation inflation affects policy that is set by statute every five years and ensure we get the right programs in place to benefit our stakeholders: South Dakota’s farmers."
STATE JOURNAL VIEW: You were paying more a decade ago, and spewing carbon isn't the future
Ag and energy are closely entwined and the energy crisis across the globe has been impacting U.S. agriculture this year.
Dear Michael: We have managed, through hard work and some luck, to amass a good-sized estate. However, we did not have children until later th…
"Price is the great communicator between the producer and the consumer of anything. Price is what balances supply and demand."
While U.S. agriculture has cleared the hurdles of 2020 with little damage, uncertainty looms in 2021. But there is optimism.
Dear Michael: We have been told over the years that our life estate is a safe way to protect our property in the event we need long-term care …
History and economics teach farmers that there will be ups and downs.
Allendale will release its annual yield survey at 10 a.m. CDT today. They indicate that bulls “are looking to demand for the next reason to buy.”
Many of us remember back to the late 1990s when harvesting small grains became almost impossible. Some farmers converted to tracks, others use…
“Things look to be fairly quiet across the HRW wheat belt for much of the next week to 10 days,” the ADM Investor Services research team reported.
Weather concerns in Argentina beyond the near-term forecast and inflation talk supported the rally in soybeans, the Hightower Report stated. T…
The February live cattle contract is “struggling to rally as fed cattle supplies should be on the rise for first-quarter 2018, Allendale said.…
Editor's note: The Federal Reserve said today (Sept. 20) it will keep the federal funds interest rate steady at 1 percent to 1 1/4 percent. Fo…
The Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee unanimously agreed to leave interest rates where they are following a two-day meeting in Washington, according to a statement released this afternoon (May 3).
The U.S. Federal Reserve raised interest rates on Wednesday (March 15) for the second time in three months, citing steady economic growth, job…
NEW YORK – Commodities were lower in December, largely driven by supply surpluses and weather events, according to Credit Suisse Asset Management.
Recently Listed
