Global Economy
The big market moves this week show just how tight the supply situation is for commodities, says Jerry Gulke, president of the Gulke Group.
Home to 21% of the world’s population, China possesses only 7% of productive farmland. As such, shifts in the composition have effects that ripple across the globe.
After growing up in a small town in northeast Michigan, spending time in Bosnia and earning a degree in economics from Iowa State University, Kauffman started his career with the Federal Reserve.
Understand how global headwinds and tailwinds will affect your operation.
It didn’t start with the swing of an ax in the Amazon or by an explosion in Kiev. Both contributed, but the shifts in global grain flows is a multifaceted prism through which the future is continuing to evolve.
A historic drought has severely cut the size of this year’s crop in Argentina, especially soybeans. Processors will be forced to import soybeans just to stay in business.
As Americans, we are free to debate the budgets, the policies, the processes and purpose of our role in this conflict. I can’t, however, ignore the humanity paying the cost.
“When Ukraine fails, in terms of their ability to produce agricultural products, the world becomes less safe,” says Howard Buffett, global philanthropist and Illinois farmer.
With Brazil’s March beans priced 80 cents lower than US beans, there are rumors grain contracts could be cancelled. Jon Scheve explains how this works and how farmers could be impacted.
How will big South American production impact U.S. producers who are preparing to plant a crop this spring?