Ag Economics on the Plains
Ag Economics on the Plains

High Plains Ag Week 9/13/2021 – Updated Winter Wheat & Winter Stocker Budgets

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It’s time to consider winter enterprise options with updated forecasts. Today we’ll review profitability outcomes for winter wheat and winter stocker operations, and revisit a few tools that can help you with fall decision-making. [Read more…] about High Plains Ag Week 9/13/2021 – Updated Winter Wheat & Winter Stocker Budgets

High Plains Ag Week 2/15/2021 – Cotton

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Today I’m continuing my series on the state of commodity markets for several Texas High Plains commodities (as long as the power stays on). Today we wrap up the portion on crops with the state of the cotton market. The long and short is that cotton is doing as well as the rest of the crop complex, price-wise. You can see a similar post for the wheat, corn, and sorghum markets in my last two posts. Next week I’ll wrap up this series with a post on the state of the cattle market.

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High Plains Ag Week 2/8/2021 – Corn & Sorghum

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Today I’m continuing my series on the state of commodity markets for several Texas High Plains commodities. We continue the series today with the corn and sorghum markets. No surprise to those who keep up with agricultural markets; sorghum is a star at the moment. You can see a similar post for the wheat market in last week’s post. Over the rest of February I’ll also cover the markets for cotton and cattle.

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High Plains Ag Week 1/4/21 – 2021 Opening Bell

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If you’re reading this it means we made it! December 2020 was a wild ride in most agricultural markets. I’m not sure we should be surprised given the rest of 2020. I’ll dive in to several topics today including some information on crop prices, livestock prices, the weather outlook, and policy reminders. Remember to contact me if you have thoughts, suggestions, or questions at benavidezjustin@tamu.edu

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