The following writing by Teri Gafford was published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta today. Her summary of their Birmingham Branch’s recent agricultural meeting is insightful and points to a few emerging trends, some of which apply to areas other than the Southeastern U.S., too.—K.M. Food for Thought I admit it. No matter how [...]
Sometimes I just get lucky. Like a couple of weeks ago when I boarded a 5 A.M. bus for the Denver airport. Whodathunk that the nice pleasant lady who sat next to me would want to talk GPS tractors for the hour? Imagine my surprise when she told me she was headed to China and [...]
The above graph from a new Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City report shows us that net farm incomes are advancing, but so are production costs. The report had a number of interesting remarks about high input costs, which you may find below. Note that some of the high production expense references are to high [...]
