Blog Post

This Week in Agribusiness, September 2, 2023

Mike Pearson talks with Matt Jungmann at the Farm Progress Show. Matt shares highlights from the show this year to include beautiful weather, great field demonstrations, autonomy and more. Connor Bridgman, Advance Trading, joins Mike to discuss the markets. Connor dives deeper into exports, port challenges and more. This week in Colby Ag Tech, Chad […]

Read More

Curious Questions: Why was absinthe banned?

Absinthe is almost unique among alcoholic spirits for having been outlawed in even some of the world’s most liberal countries — but how did that happen? Martin Fone traces back the story to find the tales of debauchery, hallucination and even murder that once gave the drink its bad name — and looks at how it’s returned […]

Read More

Young cattle values continue to trend down on AuctionsPlus

From St George, QLD these two lines totalling 178 Angus x Santa steers 6-9 months averaging 246kg returned $810/head or 330c/kg on Friday. A further 102 of their lighter brothers averaging 197kg made 347c or $690/head, while 58 backgrounder type sisters averaging 180kg made 239c or $430. WHILE there was some improvement in clearance rates, […]

Read More