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21 May 2020
Question: "What will this COVID-19 lockdown recession do to land prices?"Answer: Probably nothing. Even an 18-month or 24-month scenario is basically a blip in comparison to a 50-year or longer investment horizon.Q: "Should we be worried about inflation or deflation right now?"A: In theory -- long-term -- inflation. In reality -- right now -- consu...
21 May 2020
By Mary KennedyDTN Cash Grains AnalystandPamela SmithDTN/Progressive Farmer Crops Technology EditorOMAHA (DTN) -- Romulo Lollato skeptically eyed a dark cloud floating overhead as he electronically delivered assessments from the second day of touring Kansas wheat fields. On Wednesday, crop scouts fanned out across the west-central and southwestern ...
21 May 2020
I'm sitting at home with three kids trying to do my part by social distancing. Many professionals, including myself, have either dramatically reduced or eliminated interactions with clients. My thoughts and prayers are with the agricultural community. With a prolonged recession in agriculture and now social isolation/distancing, the economic and me...
20 May 2020
By Mary KennedyDTN Basis AnalystandPamela SmithDTN/Progressive Farmer Crops Technology EditorOMAHA (DTN) -- Wheat scouts zoomed in on the Kansas wheat crop Tuesday in the first day of a "virtual tour." Day one found a highly variable crop in the northwest and north-central portions of the state.Aaron Harries, Kansas Wheat vice president of research...
20 May 2020
The post-Mother's Day week turned out to be a very wet period in the Midwest, notably during the Friday, May 15, through Sunday, May 17, stretch in the eastern Midwest. Rainfall of 1 inch to 2.5 inches with locally 3-plus inches was noted from eastern Missouri through central and northeastern Illinois. That included a four-day rainfall total of a r...