Lower farm income shakes ag sector

The USDA’s recent estimate of a 36-percent decline in net farm income from 2014 to 2015 due to low grain prices has the agriculture sector on edge. Thomas Landstreet, a co-founder of investment-management firm Tell-tale Advisors, argued in Forbes that agriculture has been in a long-term bubble caused by the corn ethanol mandate, which drove demand, and the 2012… » Read More

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