The Uber Farmer
Last week, the Freakonomics podcast did a piece that reminded me of a DTN column I wrote back in March: https://www.dtnpf.com/agriculture...
The Seasonal Rally, Right On Time
Market to Market from June 10, 2016 -- Always a pleasure to hear Walt Hackney's livestock analysis live and in person
More Sufficient Freight
In recognition of the approval that came this month from the Iowa Utilities Board, which voted to permit the Dakota Access pipeline to be...
February averages of new crop contract prices
The new crop contract averages through the month of February are used as reference prices for crop insurance policies. Looking at 2016 in...
"Be alert and be aggressive but not too greedy."
Mike Pearson, host of Market to Market: "Be alert and be aggressive but not too greedy." Elaine Kub: "There we go. Yes." Thank you, as...
Unraveling Corn's Seasonal Highs
Sell your grain at the seasonal high in the spring. That's good advice, especially in normal marketing years with normal weather, normal...
Manufacturing a Case for Chinese Soybean Demand
Picture in your mind a Fire Monkey. What does it look like? Your guess is as good as anybody's; it's a mythical zodiac creature, but it...
How Many Days Until We Run Out
There have been some excitingly bearish headlines in the energy sector lately. "Oil Prices Sink to Lowest Since 2009;" "Record Crude Oil...
Corn Growing Time Lapse
Little time lapse video I made of one of my baby corn plants in the middle of June. I thought it would be much more dramatic than this....
CRS Farmer-to-Farmer Adventure in Ethiopia
It was my honor to analyze the value chain of maize and haricot beans with the Bora Denbel Farmers Cooperative Union in Meki, Oromia,...