Tag Archive: "Top Farmer"
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Top Farmer – Day 2 – Last Session
The final session of the day was presented by Marcos Fava Neves of the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil on the Brazilian Agriculture Perspective. Marcos is based near Sao Paulo which does not have much soybean or corn production in the area. Rather, they are in the heart of sugar cane country and Ethanol plants. Marcos […]
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Top Farmer – Day 2 Session 3
The next session was presented by Jason Henderson who just started with Purdue after being with the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. He presented a series of maps showing farmland values from 1900 to the 1980s using constant current dollars. In 1900, there were no counties that had average farmland values exceeding $3,000. Some […]
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Top Farmer Day 1 – Session 2
My next recap is in regards to the “Crop Markets in Transition” presented by Darrel Good of the University of Illinois. Darrel noted that there is the potential for a 14 billion bushel crop with added production in South America, it may be tough to meet the export estimates by USDA. Ethanol consumption should pick […]
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Top Farmer – Day 2, Session 1
Since I have my laptop with me today, I am going to try to do a separate post on each session for today’s Top Farmer Conference. Yesterday’s sessions were very informative and I hope today is even better. First session today is an update on Ethanol and Bio-Diesel production presented Scott Irwin of the University […]