Wind of Change
Those of you who have been with me through the years will recall I’m an advocate of Chaos Theory. I was first introduced to the idea by James Gleick’s definitive book “Chaos: Making a New Science”, and later “The Misbehavior [...]
Forward Thinking
If you’ve been paying attention to ag media recently, you know talking about futures spreads and forward curves has become “cool”, much more so than it was 18 months ago. Recall then the favored themes were trade wars are good [...]
Private Tours
Those of you who have followed me over the years are familiar with my belief that data collection, organization, and dissemination should be privatized. This is based on the age-old business proverb, “You get what you pay for”, meaning “the [...]
Wheat Is on the Table
As I’ve said many times over the last couple months, everything we do from here on out constitutes a “new normal”. A case in point is last week’s Kansas wheat tour, an event that usually occurs in early May and [...]
Life Below Zero
“After all, we are dealing with a new normal.” That’s how I ended my Weekly Column, “Rule #6”, this past weekend, and it rings even truer Monday afternoon following a historic day in the crude oil market. I was on [...]
Take a Breath
Something doesn’t feel right. The world seems to be crumbling all around us, but is it really? Is the keyword in all that “seems”? And if so, would we not be well advised to remember the old saying, “Not all [...]