“The ag community is all suffering. We all know this,” says Brandon Vining, president of ProGro Agronomy in St. Anthony. Agronomic outcomes differed by region, but low commodity prices and high input costs have most producers (outside of the beef industry) tightening their belts and hoping for better times.

Idaho agriculture overcame a struggling dairy market to record a second consecutive year of stellar cash receipts in 2023, propelled by record values of four of the state’s major crops, according to a new University of Idaho economic report.

If you have a short ball-handler on your basketball team, do you make adjustments to your game plan? Sure you do. Why are market principles any different?

Do you remember Sea-Monkeys? When I was young, I saw the advertisements in the back of magazines and knew I needed to have my own Sea-Monkeys. For only $1.25, I was promised the Sea-Monkeys, a one-year supply of food, living plasma, water purifier, a fully illustrated manual on Sea-Monkeys care and a growth guarantee in writing.

At the time I wrote this article, we were in the middle of experiencing some of the most volatile futures markets in years.