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ClearCost CEO Keith Busch says the platform will post state-level delivered prices, hold payment until product moves and, eventually, support hedging, with the redeveloped version due in January.
BNSF says the proposed UP-NS merger would leave captive shippers with fewer options and farm inputs with higher freight costs. Union Pacific says it would open new routes and take trucks off the road.
With fertilizer prices elevated, farmers are looking for relief wherever they can find it. The question is whether suspending the Jones Act is a key piece of the puzzle.
Input costs are up $15 billion since February, diesel is roughly double and credit demand at Land O’Lakes’ financing business is already surging for next season, Beth Ford says.
Growers are locking in inputs earlier, paying on terms that run past harvest, and treating credit as part of the agronomic plan instead of a last-minute add-on.
Starting this fall, FBN’s Norm will surface daily, farm-specific insights, and by spring it aims to act on them, with Google supplying the AI models.
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With corn and soybean yields in question and price rationing back on the table, Gulke says the farmers who treat volatility as the enemy — instead of the opportunity — are the ones left holding the top.