Our good friend Dr. John Newton, who serves as the Vice President of Public Policy and Economic Analysis at the American Farm Bureau Federation, where he leads the organization’s government relations, advocacy, and economics teams and serves as Chief Economist, passed along some information in a recent post that I thought was worth sharing. Following …
There is a lot of talk about a crisis in the US farm economy, and many are still arguing that lawmakers in Washington are taking “too little action.” The American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) reports that farmers will enter the 2026-27 crop year with accumulated losses of more than -$50 billion over the past three …
In this Episode… A Discussion on Current Corn, Soybean, and Wheat Markets, Recent Volatility in Gold and Silver, Stock Market Direction, Some Conversation About Position Sizing, How Kevin Uses New Prediction Markets to Gain Some Additional Market Insights, and Much More With Special Guest Jeff Hoffman. https://www.vantrumpreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/VTRPodcast02-04-2026.m4aPodcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS
Growing up on a cattle operation in Australia, Sam Rogers spent a lot of evenings waiting for his dad to come home. That ranching rhythm of early starts, late finishes, and constant risk was just “how it’s always been done.” Sam watched it and quietly decided it shouldn’t have to stay that way.Unlike a lot …
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McKinsey & Company recently released an analysis of publicly traded global agricultural companies that outperform the rest by sustaining performance across agricultural cycles. I thought it was worth sharing in the hopes that the rest of us might glean better business models, decision-making processes, or general insights we might be missing in our day-to-day operations. …
