s also the first state on our list of the cheapest places to buy a home — a cause for celebration on both sides of the aisle. It’s not just farmland here, though. From the capital city of Des Moines to charming college towns like Iowa City and Ames, the Hawkeye State is a great...
many agricultural investment options provide acceptable investment exposure to traditional farming enterprises. For example, some funds provide exposure to soybeans, corn, wheat, cotton, sugar, coffee, soybean oil, live cattle, feeder cattle, cocoa, lean hogs, Kansas City...
I always think when I travel that every remote rural area outside of New Jersey has a Cracker Barrel, yet we don't see a path forward to bring the barrel to Ocean County. I will be driving hours in the middle of nowhere and there is a Cracker Barrel every 30 miles lol....
Echoing the shifting hunting trends across the nation, Kansas is also reporting a decrease in the number of licenses and tags sold. According to Alec Gartner of KSNT.com,deer tag purchases in Kansas have gone down by more than 26,000 since 2015. The Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and...
These take up vast areas of farmland, often in developing countries, which could be used to grow food crops for the local population instead of crops that will be made into biofuel and sold to the westernized developing countries. The advantage of duckweed is not just its speed of growth, ...
The mismanagement of agricultural lands, and/or the influence of natural forces, can produce devastating results, as illustrated by events during the years 1934 and 1935 in a region including Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and eastern Colorado. In just a few months, once-productive f...
But the Fed wasn’t just inflating consumer prices. It was inflating asset prices as well. This was the form of inflation that was alarming to bank examiners like Hoenig. The value of farmland, a key asset for banks within the Kansas City Fed district, was rising steeply. So was the val...
The Dust Bowl was one of the worst ecological disasters in our country's history. Millions of aces in Colorado, Kansas, Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico were severely impacted. Thousands of people died, millions were left homeless, millions of acres of farmland were wiped out, and hundreds of...
The number of books I’ve thrown against the wall because “this is not how any of this works” including the book where “because of global warming” Kansas was underwater but London wasn’t. Or the one where Space colonies were great because it was incredibly communist but Earth was in...
on the U.S. Much of his trade agenda has focused on China. Trump has proposed phasing out Chinese imports of essential goods including electronics, steel and pharmaceuticals and wants to ban Chinese companies from owning U.S. infrastructure in sectors such as energy, tec...