Paying $3 for a drive-thru coffee is a rational choice when the alternative is no coffee at all. It is also reasonable to pay $4 for a box of corn cereal. If one, 12-ounce box of cereal provides 8 bowls … Continue reading →
Food is as old as dirt. However, in 2024 the word ‘food’ is poorly understood. Pandemics, supply-chain challenges, trade wars, real wars; have all contributed to growing concern about access to food. Clarifying and aligning definitions of food will take … 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 →
In the most recent post, the case was made that in their role as producers, farms transform inputs into outputs more than establish and maintain markets in the final goods and services, retail sector. The 2022 Census of Agriculture also … Continue reading →
Abraham Lincoln commissioned the first census of farm by the Department of Agriculture 180 years ago. Some of the data categories have not changed since then, like specifying a farm of 1 to 9 acres in size. As a culture, … Continue reading →
The last seven years, Greenville University has been building a BS in Agribusiness, in their Briner School of Business. This has required a target market for arming agribusiness graduates, hungry for leadership in their formative careers. This chart from USDA, … Continue reading →
