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  • Sep. 23, 2011
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    Debate Over Feed Costs, Availability Takes Center Stage

    The debate over feed costs and availability took center stage last week at a hearing of the House Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy and Poultry. Representatives of all three sectors discussed the challenges of high feed costs and their concerns about whether sufficient feed would be available for U.S. producers’ needs should a true short crop occur in the next few years....More
  • Sep. 19, 2011
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    Livestock Producers Face Ethanol Makers Over Cost Of Corn

    The flooding and record heat that have combined to shrink this year's corn crop are feeding new calls from livestock producers to weaken the government's ethanol mandates....More
  • Sep. 12, 2011
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    USDA Projects Higher Corn Prices, Food Costs

    USDA data showing declining corn supplies in the U.S. and around the globe will continue sending corn prices skyward, which will also send consumer food bills significantly higher....More
  • Sep. 1, 2011
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    Analyzing The Costs Of Maintaining A Breeding Herd

    In my July column, which kicked off this series analyzing how beef cow costs are changing in the biofuels era, we discussed the 17-year trend in total direct costs (TDC) associated with Northern Plains beef cowherds. Last month, we analyzed the overhead costs (OC). This month, we’ll look at long-run annual capital costs of maintaining the beef cow breeding herd....More
  • Aug. 1, 2011
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    Overhead Costs On The Ranch

    A key question for today’s ranchers is whether ranch cost structures are changing as we progress further into the biofuels era....More
  • Jul. 31, 2011
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    Ending Ethanol Subsidies

    Senate negotiators have cobbled together a plan that would significantly reduce subsidies for corn ethanol production....More
  • Jul. 22, 2011
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    The Effects Of The Heat Wave

    I’m no farmer, but I’m a big believer in the marketplace, and the recent run-up in the corn market makes it clear that the current heat wave is harming the prospects of corn yields. This week, heat indices hit 120-129 across Iowa, Minnesota, South Dakota and parts of Illinois and Kansas....More
  • Jul. 22, 2011
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    Biofuels & Chinese Demand Spur Grain Prices

    Growing demand for corn to use in biofuels, and for soybeans to help feed a booming Chinese economy, are among key forces driving commodity prices higher this year, according to a report by three Purdue agricultural economists....More
  • Jul. 1, 2011
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    Effect Of Ethanol Supports On Ranchers – Part I

    The nation’s ethanol program kicked into high gear in 1996, dramatically impacting corn prices and changing the economics of the beef cow sector in its wake. The result has created a new economic ballgame for beef cow producers that I refer to as the “new normal.”...More
  • Jun. 27, 2011
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    Economic Impact Of Extending Ethanol Tax Credit, Tariff

    Extending the current ethanol tax credit and tariff would boost corn-based fuel production and corn prices, report University of Missouri economists....More
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