Here’s where inflation gets real: When millions of Americans get together for backyard barbecues on July 4, the average host is going to be shelling out US$99 for ingredients, including beer and burgers. In 2018 the same stuff only cost $73, according to Rabobank, the global agricultural lender. The average guy or gal now has […] Read more
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BBQ pain for we beer and burger boys
Here's where inflation gets real
Academics worry about ag economist shortage
Fewer U.S. high school graduates over the next decade could mean a drop in the number of students entering the field
WINNIPEG — Agricultural economists are in danger of becoming an endangered species if the academy and the profession don’t find ways of attracting future students to the field. That’s the conclusion and the alarm sounded by a paper in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, highlighting the “looming demographic cliff” as well as other factors […] Read more
Big futures trades harder in all-electronic world
Report concludes all-electronic trading has not affected the cost per trade, although pit trading did add an option value
WINNIPEG — Who were the winners and losers when Chicago shut its live trading floors for livestock futures and sent everything to the electronic world? That’s a question two economists at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission have attempted to answer in a new article in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics. Large futures users, […] Read more
