How Will Closing the Trading Pits Affect Market Performance?
CME Group’s recent announcement regarding the scheduled July 2 closing of most futures trading pits has triggered a range of reactions. News stories have covered related issues such as displaced […]
Pork’s Boom-and-Bust Price Pattern
Markets can take your breath away, and the hog market over the past year has left many breathless. A year ago in March, the new PED virus was the talk […]
Dairy Focus: Managing Feed Refusals
To ensure constant feed availability and account for feed refusal or weigh back, you must deliver more feed to a pen of dairy cows than those cows will consume. Common […]
Agriculture Act of 2014: Who Makes What Decisions?
One question on producer’s minds with regards to the Agriculture Act of 2014 is who makes the decisions. The decision to update yields and base acres1 lies with the owner2 […]
Commercial Beef Production Benchmarks for 2014
What is beef production? That question often is asked, and the answers are very varied because of a very diversified beef industry that encompasses vast amounts of space. The saying […]