“Soil is more important than oil and is as much a nonrenewable resource.” —Wes Jackson Back in March, I wrote one of my most popular posts ever, titled “Is Anyone Paying Attention? We’ve Lost 9.7 Million Acres of CRP Land in Five Years.” The article began like this… The amount of land enrolled in the [...]
Corn exports by major U.S. competitors continue to surge The U.S. is losing its long standing position as the world’s corn export provider. In the above graph, the shrinking blue area represents the shrinking U.S. global corn exports. Twelve years ago, Argentina was the only other major corn exporter, but now Brazil, the Ukraine, and [...]
The above chart has been updated using the latest released stocks-to-use estimated percentages from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. In good news from the FAO, lower international prices and freight rates, together with lower cereal purchases, have pushed down the world food import bill in 2012 to an estimated $ 1.14 [...]
