On the Outside Looking In?
“Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right. Here I am, stuck in the middle with you.” This is the chorus to the 1972 hit song by the Scottish band Stealers Wheel,...
Category: Ag Economics and History
Profiles in Farming: The Other Isaac Newton
Before you get too far, not that Isaac Newton. Not the physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, and theologian who was knighted. No lets talk about Isaac Newton the agriculturalist, a (slightly) less heralded name...
AAA Part 2: How One Farmer Defined US Commerce
In a previous piece, I covered the history of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 as a component of the New Deal. This Act was a first step in federal government safety nets, and...
Agriculture Adjustment Act: The Birth of Crop Insurance
Today farmers benefit from financial safety nets that provide the opportunity to weather bad years. We have federally subsidized crop insurance that provides a baseline guarantee on production. While there will always be qualms...
Ag Acts: The Farm Loan Act
Farming requires a lot of capital to operate. Inputs rose steadily for most of the 20th century, but have really taken off in the last 5o years with the introduction and wide spread adoption...
Beef is on the Mooove
You might have noticed the price of beef at your local grocery store raising over the last year and just chalked it up to inflation. That’s an easy assumption to land on, everything seems...
Tools of Trade-Quotas
Trade is about compromise. We have spent many years in a mostly free trade global economic system and now are facing interruptions to this system due to tariffs. So, does it have to...
