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Mix the collapse in the financial markets, newly restricted credit and volatile commodity prices and you get the potential for higher margin calls for grain elevators – so high that some may not be able to pay them.
Top Producer editor Jeanne Bernick, Jeanne Bernick, author of “Inside the Carbon Market” discusses the questions farmers submitted and the planning behind the article.
Peterson to push for more permanent solution in next Congress
Bean surprise coming Friday? Jerry Gulke believes if there is a surprise in Friday’'s Crop Report, it will be in soybeans. If you have sales in place, you may want to consider November call options just in case, he says.
With a crowd of dignitaries, farmers, media and university representatives on hand, Tennessee broke ground on its long-awaited pilot cellulosic ethanol plant Oct. 14.
Impact: Lower entitlement spending ahead, including farm program payment cuts
Biofuels are responsible for 10% of the inflation in food values, and the high volatility in the agricultural commodity markets is likely to continue through 2009, USDA Chief Economist Joseph Glauber says.
Watch and hear about new name and numbering system John Deere is incorporating. Farm Journal Machinery Editor Margy Fischer was in Sarasota, Fla. last week for the Deere roll-out of some of its new technology.