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The Plan... Yes - I will be back.  Actually the spontaneous vacation has worked wonders.  Look for some big news from US Farm Report whe...

The problem with "average returns"... I have long disputed the axiom touted by our financial industry that long-haul equity inve...

Uh, guys... Lost in the rural umbrage over Chipotle cartoons and "responsible raising" was any consideration that this concept m...

Out of the closet... No - not that closet. I have nurtured an abiding fear somebody will find my Kindle and note the astonishing amount o...

Bankers unclear on the concept... Out in Kansas, home of the famous "Fighting 'Flation Hawks", bankers recently gathered to ...

I'm not dead... "Anonymous" below asks if I've giving up blogging. Which reminded me: So, the answer is, I don...

The truly "golden" years... Jan and I have been unbelievably - and undeservedly - lucky in life. One thing we can take credit fo...

Odd charts... Exercise #1: Integrate these two charts into a workable theory. [ Source ] [ Source ] [As always, click to e...

More to fret about... Agriculture seems to me to be  overly concerned about what other people think of them . While much of this has to do...

Twits on Twitter... Yes, I've degraded myself to 140-character wisecracks and am tweeting. Worse yet, I think I'm starting to en...

The Chipotle affair... I have been more than a little puzzled by the kerfuffle between the beef industry and Chipotle - for multiple reas...

Looking back, I saw this coming... Just like the 3.5" of rain on my soggy fields. The Cantor defeat which was utterly unpredicted (my...

Junkbox, Episode MMXIV  ✘ ... Plenty of water, little heat. Wait - I'm in the energy business. Should we worry about  financial sta...

Show me the data... It's about time the pushback for cramming Big Data down our throats got some more attention.  For this farmer, it...

We don't understand jack... About China .  I read this on MR recently: In just two years, from 2011 to 2012, China produced more cem...

Putting the pun in pundit... About a year ago I appeared on the Willis Report on Fox Business Channel. Rave reviews (I assume) because ...

Keep an eye on this... Perhaps the biggest coup for farm subsidy supporters in the last farm bill was re-establishing the " Cone of S...

Maybe it  is  the media... I have commented on several occasions about my  bafflement over the strength of the GMO labeling movement . (I ...

Not neutrality... This is a complicated one.  The very term "net neutrality" is loaded with baggage and preconceptions, but I t...

Economic engineering... Although back in the day I had a minor in economics. (I could have gotten a double degree if I could I could only ...