Demographics
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Is Farmland Too Good of an Investment
I have written many times about how farmland has been a good investment for at least the last 10 years or so. Most of this data has been gathered from sources directly related to farming, however, I have started to notice a trend about reporting on farmland as an good investment in mainstream sources such […]
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Some Interesting Wheat Production Facts
Kansas State University has a site called ag manager info and there is always some interesting tidbits that they have on the site. They recently posted an article on the world wheat market supply and demand trends. I thought I would recap the article with what I found interesting. For the current year, total acres […]
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Working Capital – Lifeblood of a Farm
Dave Kohl is an ag economist who writes the Road Warrior of Agriculture for Corn and Soybeans Digest. His columns are usually very insightful regarding economic issues related to agriculture. Back in March, he had an article regarding working capital being the financial shock absorber for farms and business. Working capital is the excess of […]
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Go West Corn Belt
As the old saying goes “Go west, young man, go west”, the corn belt will probably be expanding at least 300 miles to the west over the next few years. As part of the two-day agricultural symposium held in Omaha last week, this was one of the central themes of the meeting. Drought resistant corn […]
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Food Demand Drives Farmland Prices
I try to skim a few of the major Mid-West farm cities and the Omaha World-Herald recently had an article on how food demand is driving farmland prices higher. There was a regional conference in Omaha sponsored by the Federal Reserve of Kansas City. The meeting brought forth various good nuggets of information about the […]
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Owning Farmland Has Provided a Good Return
One of our readers sent me an e-mail yesterday regarding an article posted by www.farmgate.com regarding the return on farmland investment from 1970 top 2009. This post was based upon the research done by Iowa State University. Over the years farmland investment have yielded a very competitive rate of return compared to other investments. However, […]
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Russia is Going for Dominance in Wheat
I had a post from about two weeks ago about the USDA predicting that Russia would become a larger exporter of wheat than the US by about 2019. Bloomberg Businessweek just wrote an article on how Russia is fighting for World Dominance – in Wheat!. The article recaps that Russia is able to sell their […]
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Gen X – Gen Y – How Are You Dealing With Them
In a recent issue of Top Producer magazine, an article was written by Linda Smith about how agricultural managers are dealing with the Gen X and Gen Y generation. I know that being a parent of 4 Gen Y boys that you need to deal with them differently from people from my generation (the baby […]
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Lack of Data Dooms GRIP & GRP in 1000+ Counties
Marcia Taylor with DTN/The Progressive Farmer had a great post recently on the elimination of crop insurance under the Group Risk Income Protection (GRIP) and Group Risk Program (GRP) in over 1,000 counties across the US. The primary reason for eliminating these counties were due to not reporting at least 30 yield reports or 25% […]
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Legacy by Design
One of the shows that I have taped on my DVR each day is AgDay. It comes on in the morning at 6 am and when I get home from work, that is usually the first thing that I watch on TV. The parent of AgDay, Farm Journal Media has launched a new monthly TV […]