Food prices have been inflated. Food, as a category in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) is no longer driving inflation. The Wall Street Journal reported on November 2, 2024, that grocery distributors are causing food prices to increase and cause … Continue reading →
The United States is losing farmland but productivity and output continue to increase. Last week, the loss of 11 million acres of pastureland to cropland was explored. That blog also examined the over emphasized claims on cattle as an environmental … Continue reading →
I have benefitted from a rich tradition of military service. In 1979, I was part of an exchange work-study program on a potato and hog farm in southern Germany. Working outside of my home environment in the Midwest United States … Continue reading →
My dad, Speed Jenner, was born in 1923, 101 years ago. It is election day, and Dad spent many years as an election judge in our tiny community in Southern Illinois. He was a great American. He set the ‘bar’ … Continue reading →
The Wall Street Journal reported this week that used cars are losing value faster than they have been. The term negative equity was discussed. In the article, car owners were required to settle their loan prior to the full term, … Continue reading →
The first 15 years after high school were spent chasing windmills, because in those early years of adulthood, all the answers were obvious. Go to college and become smart enough to change the world (age 18 to 22). Save the … Continue reading →
Farm management focuses on business decision making for the business unit of the farm. But access to external cash-flows from off-farm income takes some pressure off the total dependence on the success of the farm business unit. Farm Enterprise Analysis … Continue reading →
Biomass Rules seeks out examples of increased efficiency and utilization. This means businesses and economies produce more output from fewer inputs. We have focused our work in research and innovation the last four decades on either developing an innovation, or … Continue reading →
Number 2 Yellow Corn plays many roles these days. Among them both ‘sustainable savior,’ as well as, ‘destroyer of humanity and the planet.’ That is a pretty broad range. Back in the good old days, 20 years ago, corn was … Continue reading →
Biomass Rules takes inventory of locally available, undervalued wastes, and finds higher valued markets through which move these once-upon-a-time liabilities back into the economy. Sometimes straw may be a feedstock into feed, fertility or biofuel products. Biomass Rules is the … Continue reading →
