Retired 40 year veteran of the Canadian Grain Markets. 20 as a floor trader at the WCE. I can finally say what I want, but it's not worth listening to!
This last few days had me feeling like I was seeing the absolute hight of stupidity. Then I channel surfed into a tv program about “Carjitsu”.
youtu.be/a1f7r0cfaXc
Commons by vote of 199 to 139 rejects Conservative motion to sustain property rights after judge granted Indigenous title to 1,846 acres near Richmond, B.C. including private lots.
blacklocks.ca/reject-propert…@Jamie_Schmale#cdnpoli#bcpoli
I suspect many US farmers don’t fully appreciate what the last year of economic “winning” has done to the dollar’s purchasing power for your inputs. This is separate from the impact of tariffs.
Only in America: takes a university research team to figure out that duties and tariffs drive up farm input costs.
afpc.tamu.edu/research/publi…
So, farmers pay the price - not the foreign government?
I gave up watching basketball years ago when they stopped calling traveling. I can’t not see it. Always drove me nuts. Today, I tried watching college ball. The traveling wasn’t enough. Now there’s almost non-stop diving! It’s absolutely pathetic. Won’t make that mistake again.
It's almost time! Grain marketing doesn’t have to be complicated and it can be done with confidence
Walk through the why behind market moves and how to better turn bushels into cash
Classes kick off next Wednesday, January 7th!
Sign up at consusag.net
Any 4020 experts out there #agx#agtwitter? Transmission completely locked going from Park to gear Can’t get shift handle to move shut the tractor off messed with clutch Started tractor to raise the bucket because it’s over the fuel tank shut it off now clutch wont engage -1
Hundreds of kids in South Carolina are being quarantined right now because of a measles outbreak.
I don’t have patience for niceties when it comes to this crap, so if you’re an anti-vaxxer, keep your damn kids at home and, for God sake, don’t travel for the holidays.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER
ALT Line chart showing the net cash farm income and net farm income, inflation-adjusted, from 2005 to 2025 (forecasted) and the 20-year averages for each.