"Meanwhile, an update yesterday at The Wall Street Journal Online indicated that the cash price for corn (No. 2 yellow. Cent. Ill. bu-BP) on Tuesday was 4.1850; a year ago it was 7.2200."The ease with which farm prices can change is a fact often missed by those outside the farm world. There's not too many commodities out there where the price can drop, or rise, as fast as corn just did.
Blogging on bureaucracy, organizations, USDA, agriculture programs, American history, the food movement, and other interests. Often contrarian, usually optimistic, sometimes didactic, occasionally funny, rarely wrong, always a nitpicker.
Thursday, November 14, 2013
Volatility--the Farmer's Enemy
A paragraph from today's Farm Policy:
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment