September, 2012
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A Lot of Fighting Words Over “Sugar”
We ran across this article on the continued fight between the makers of “natural” sugar (i.e. from cane and beets) and “corn sugar”. The corn processing industry has tried to change the official name of their product from high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) to “corn sugar”. The perception is that the word sugar has a better […]
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Section 179 for 2013
We have gotten a few emails in the last few weeks asking what the Section 179 deduction will be in 2013. The current law is a limit of $25,000 for 2013. However, both the President and Congress have discussed increasing the deduction up to $500,000 with a phase-out starting at $2 million. It appears at […]
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What About Hay?
We seem to write mostly about the main three grain crops in the US (corn, beans and wheat) since they comprise a large portion of US Ag revenues. However, there are several other very important crops that are harvested every year. One of those crops is hay. I have reviewed the data from the USDA […]
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A Decelerating Trend in Farmland Prices
The Chicago Federal Reserve Bank issued their 2012 Second Quarter AgLetter last week and it indicated that the rapid acceleration in farmland prices over the last two years has moderated substantially. For the district, year-over-year prices had risen by 12% in Indiana to a high of 24% for Iowa. However, the increase in prices for the […]