Ag in the News

07/13/2010

National and International

Report Indicates $3.60-$4.10 Corn Prices
Based on price history since 1997, the July Supply–Demand report suggests corn prices between $3.60 and $4.10 until the August report, according to Bill Fordham of C&S Market Consulting.MORE!

Beef’s Stake in Immigration
If you saw the New York Times piece last week on how the Obama administration is conducting “silent raids,” you might have noticed that Gebbers Farms replaced its illegal workforce with legals. But toward the end, we find this passage: MORE!

Cheese Price Makes a New High, But for How Long?
The anticipated tightening milk supply has yet to take place. Late last year, the proverbial ax was to fall on a number of dairy operations as many banks needed to be rid of bad loans. MORE!

Our Ties to the Land
The footpath of my youth still wends past my grandparents’ smokehouse, through the creaking garden gate to the creek where I spent sun-drenched days searching for fossils and frogs. MORE!