As an economist, I have been trained to see the world through a lens of critical thinking. As a manure visionary, I have been trained to look beyond traditional monetary values to measure both benefits and costs. If and when … Continue reading →
Cell addresses in spreadsheets, by default are relative objects. This means that when a formula is copied in Excel the relationship to adjacent cells that are included in the copied cell formula, also gets copied. If the cell to the … Continue reading →
Food pricing has many layers. Earlier, it was established that Biomass Rules considers food to be retail consumption of human nutrients. There are exceptions, but this working definition simplifies many parts. It is easy to look at the farm gate … Continue reading →
The first federal census of agriculture was conducted in 1840. It has been conducted for 184 years. The oldest hardcopy of the US Census of Agriculture in the Biomass Rules collection is from 1982. We have been reading and analyzing … Continue reading →
Ok. This is certainly overkill, but I can’t stop sharing. There was a lot of interest in the last post, Midwest Land Prices Only Increase in the LONG View. But it gets EVEN cooler. Two of the lines in this … Continue reading →
Ten years ago, while working for University of Missouri – Extension, I had the privilege of joining a curriculum development team on estate and farm transfers. We developed the idea of a case, or at least believable story, to go … Continue reading →
The emerging bioeconomy is effectively starting at the system level and moving down to individual market activities. A constant for millions of years is photosynthesis. It captures solar energy – everyday for millions of years – and converts it to … Continue reading →
Economic information these days, influenced by election-year passions, spawned economic claims that do not represent actual underlying economic trends. This post looks at the compelling nature of authentic data that does not have any meaningful forecasting value. Biomass Rules is … Continue reading →
What in the farm-data mess is this? …It is a map to providing pathways for turning wastes into revenues. This is Part 4 in stepping through the impact of technology on making the world better economically and ecologically. Recall: Outputs … Continue reading →
Once again, strolling back to the future, this matrix of biomass products was created 20 years ago. It still relevant and ties together the preceding themes nicely on a different level. Outputs are dependent on the inputs, or, y = … Continue reading →
