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A weekly agriculture opinion piece by Alan Guebert

Guebert addresses the numbers released Feb. 10, 2022, by the Kansas City Federal Reserve regarding a 20% increase in farm land values.

It’s Food Vs. Fuel 2.0, and this time it is diesel versus doughnuts.  Ag economist David Widmar, co-founder of Agricultural Economic Insights says soybean oil prices climbed from about 30 cents per pound to more than 70 cents per pound.  And then...

Farmers have a lot of ball in the air, they are all headed down and need to be caught, which means preparations are imminent for the 2022 corn and soybean

Agriculture column from Alan Guebert

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

It’s an ever more uncomfortable fact for journalists like me that 67 percent of today’s media-consuming Americans do not have one paid-for subscription to anything.

Bloomberg writer Elizabeth Elkin reported on Friday that, "A gauge of North American fertilizer prices soared to a record high, driving up costs for farmers and threatening to worsen food inflation."

Rising energy costs have added to the supply chain disruption and crop failures to worsen an already dire situation with global food prices

(NAFB) – 2020 was an interesting year when it came to trade between the United States and China. Late in 2020, China began purchasing large quantities of American agricultural goods while attempting to meet the obligations of the Phase One Trade Agreement. David Widmar is an ag economist with Agricultural Economic Insights. He says 2021 is picking up where 2020 left off late last year.