HR 1346 — the Nationwide Consumer and Fuel Retailer Choice Act — passed the House by a narrow margin this week and now goes to…
This week, I published my 400th farmdoc daily article. Four hundred. It still doesn’t quite feel real to type that number. To put that in…
When Doug Peterson and I wrote Back to the Futures, we aimed at a general audience — farmers, grain traders, market analysts, and curious readers.…
One of the best parts of writing my book Back to the Futures has been discovering the unexpected ways it has been used in and…
Many of you have probably noticed that higher education is having a rough go of it right now. There is a new headline almost every…
A few weeks ago, my publishing imprint, Ceres Books, released It’s All Speculation by Tom Hieronymus. It is a collection of Tom’s writings across his…
Last week, my little publishing imprint Ceres Books released a new title—It’s All Speculation by Tom Hieronymus. It is a collection of writings by Tom…
I am very pleased to share this guest blog post from Dwight Sanders of Southern Illinois University. He wrote an extended review of the newly…
In a post last week, I shared one of my favorite in-class exercises on coin-flipping and random walks. A related and equally fun day in…
If you ask students who have taken my commodity price analysis class at the University of Illinois the one thing they remember most, it is…