News and updates related to crops that are produced and relevant to Montana and the northern Great Plains.
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2019 Edition: Consequences of Using Domestic Policies to Offset Retaliatory Tariff Losses to US Farmers
In July 2018, I wrote a post about the consequences of using the Marketing Facilitation…
Value-Added and Direct-to-Consumer Sales: Montana Highlights from the 2017 Agricultural Census
The results of the 2017 USDA Ag Census were released last week. (Both Anton and…
More Big Farms, Fewer Small Farms? Depends on Where You Live
After over a year in waiting, results of the 2017 Census of Agriculture were finally…
To Pea or Not to Pea? That Is the 2019 Planting Question
If Hamlet had been a farmer in 2019, perhaps he would also struggle with making…
Pulse Crop Prices Dropped by 30-50%. Are Pulses Being Replaced by Wheat in Montana ?
The 2018/19 marketing year has been a rough one for U.S. pulse crop producers. Relative…
New Tool for Tracking Wheat Prices and Basis: msuextension.org/basis
Note: This post also appears in the latest issue of Lives and Landscapes. The MSU…
Technology and the Future of Farm Work
Last week I attended a conference at the World Bank on The Future of Work…
What’s going on with Whole Farm Revenue Protection?
In 2014, the Whole Farm Revenue Protection (WFRP) insurance product was introduced by the Risk…
Hemp is the next big _______
In 2016, Montana had zero reported acres of industrial hemp. In 2018, Montana narrowly became…
An Economist’s Take on the Plastic Straw Debate
Three controversial bills were recently introduced in the Montana legislature to prohibit restaurants from providing…