News and analysis related to Montana and the northern Great Plains.
In July 2018, I wrote a post about the consequences of using the Marketing Facilitation…
The United States produces, arguably, some of the highest quality beef in the world. Countries…
Nonmetro population grew in 2016-17 for the first time in a decade. Declining rural unemployment,…
The results of the 2017 USDA Ag Census were released last week. (Both Anton and…
Once every five years the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service conducts the Census of Agriculture. …
After over a year in waiting, results of the 2017 Census of Agriculture were finally…
There is growing recognition of America’s historically high levels of industry concentration, and it’s looking…
A keynote speaker at a recent Risk Management Conference explored the question “What does the…
If Hamlet had been a farmer in 2019, perhaps he would also struggle with making…
The 2018/19 marketing year has been a rough one for U.S. pulse crop producers. Relative…