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This year’s wild and crazy ride has — almost by default — set the stage for a more normal 2022. Our friends at farmdocDaily, the Land Grant Extension consortium based at the University of the Illinois, certainly think so. Their updated 2022 crop budgets are more like from the early 1980s.

Looking at the upcoming year regarding corn; soybean and wheat. Alan also remembers the late Sen. Robert Dole.

Good-bye 2021’s high profits; hello 2022’s high costs

Traditional "Howards Christmas" by Alan Guebert.

Guebert: Wait an Arkansas minute, is Tyson Foods, the proverbial Big Chicken of Big Big Meat, warning shareholders of a possible market flop to newly “sophisticated consolidators” like “warehouse clubs” such as Walmart’s Sam’s Club and Costco?

Oct. 2021 SEC filing by Tyson Foods warns shareholders of a possible market flop to newly "sophisticated consolidators" such as Sams Club and Costco.

Guebert talks about the ag podcast he considers to be the best of his current listening.

Guebert: Neil Harl was the latter; he was the smartest person in the room wherever he went and everyone either already knew it or quickly discovered it. Harl knew it, too, and he often used his fierce intellect and equally quick smile to dominate public debates and charm dinner guests.

Alan Guebert writes about Neil Harl, attorney/ag economist, and the smartest man in the rom.

Guebert: Everyone from importers to exporters, farmers to foreign food buyers, and the White House to Santa’s workshop seems chained to the anchors of hundreds of ships waiting to be loaded or unloaded in or near U.S. ports.