My colleague, Michael Roberts of the University of Hawaii, recently started a new Substack blog called “Grains to Gigawatts.” His first post is an important…
Agricultural productivity gains are the reason why famine and starvation are rare in the modern world. As agricultural economists like to say, problems with malnourishment…
If you want to get a rise out of a farm audience, just mention USDA reports. To people outside of ag this is mystifying. Why…
If you wonder why I spent so much time the last few years writing two books focused on speculation in commodity futures markets (my wife…
An interesting new article from Reuters on the current travails of the US renewable diesel industry was published this week. The article is not only…
I believe pictures like those shown below cause no end of confusion with respect to the analysis of grain markets. The first picture is my…
I published a new farmdoc daily article this week about the trend in the U.S. average corn yield. This is a key driver of overall…
The main theme of my book Back to the Futures is risk, and it is appropriate that I close out the one-year anniversary week activities…
Once you write and publish a book, something interesting happens. All sorts of people tell you about their dream of also writing a book. I…
I have truly enjoyed learning about the publishing business over the last year. It is an industry that has been utterly disrupted from top-to-bottom by…