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John Phipps: Here’s to the Pro Farmer Crop Tour Critics
Over the past 30 years of Pro Farmer Crop Tour, John Phipps has noted the reliably repetitive criticism of almost every aspect by farmers, media, and others. He addresses those critics in John’s World.
August 29, 2022 08:30 AM
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John Phipps: What’s the Biggest Challenge for Dairy Farmers Adopting More Robotic Milkers and Automation?
Why is there resistance to new technologies like robotic milkers and other automation by dairy farmers, especially with the challenge in finding labor today? John Phipps provides insight in Customer Support.
August 16, 2022 03:47 PM
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John Phipps: The Crises In Agriculture That Never Really Were
As we talk and argue about the same stuff, John Phipps says many crises in ag that alarmed us a decade ago, simmered to something like stalemates with no point of view dominating as we feared.
August 15, 2022 07:33 AM
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John Phipps: Are Tariffs Part Of The Problem With Inflation?
Do tariffs fuel inflation? John Phipps’s Customer Support segment explains why economists have struggled to come up with estimates of economic effects due to lingering COVID influence on world business.
August 11, 2022 03:37 PM
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John Phipps: Is There a Shortage of DEF Right Now?
The DEF shortage story centered on the largest users of DEF – truckers. What’s causing the possible shortage and are the concerns imminent? John Phipps looks into the issue in John’s World.
August 08, 2022 06:09 PM
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John Phipps: Is the Outrage By Dutch Farmers Now Being Heard by the World Enough to Prevent Policy Changes?
Europe and the Netherlands have been dealing with an increasingly incendiary political situation pitting the country’s farmers against EU government plans to decrease greenhouse gas emissions by half by 2030.
August 02, 2022 05:15 PM
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John Phipps: Is Rural America Now The Epicenter Of Today’s Labor Woes?
How are small independent businesses like grain elevators, welding shops, independent seed dealers and other local businesses going to find labor at wages they can pay? John Phipps answers the looming labor question.
July 27, 2022 04:01 PM
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John Phipps: You May Be Surprised Which States Provide Majority of the Wind Energy in the U.S.
John Phipps says he was aware that the West and especially the southern Plains had high average wind speeds, he didn’t realize the Midwest was also a good place to site wind turbines, especially the newer, larger ones.
July 25, 2022 02:50 PM
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John Phipps: Why Can’t the U.S. Figure Out a Way to Move Water From the Great Lakes to the West?
As the Western U.S. faces a megadrought, why can’t the U.S. move water around the country like it’s done with energy? John Phipps explores the physical and political hurdles potential water infrastructure would face.
July 21, 2022 08:48 AM
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John Phipps: It’s Now Less About the Supply of Oil, And More About Refining Capacity in the U.S.
Infuriating price increases are the topic of the day, and but like the 80’s, rising inflation is driven largely by energy and the price of oil. It’s now less about the supply of oil, and more about refining capacity.
July 14, 2022 03:42 PM
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