American cattle producers have spent the last several years navigating one of the most difficult operating environments in recent memory. Drought forced many ranchers to reduce their herds. Feed, fuel, equipment, labor, land and financing costs increased. The nation’s cattle inventory tightened, beef production declined, and eventually the basic economics of supply and demand did […]
Archives for August 26, 2026
Frustrations with PSA in the Trading Card Industry
For years, PSA has occupied a unique position in the trading card hobby. For many collectors, dealers, auction houses, and investors, a PSA slab is more than a plastic holder with a number on it. It has become a kind of currency. A PSA 10 often commands a premium over the same card in another […]
Corn and Soybean Prices Are Finally Showing Some Life — What Should Growers Expect Next?
For much of 2026, row-crop producers have faced an uncomfortable combination: commodity prices that struggled to cover production costs and input expenses that refused to cooperate. As harvest approaches, however, corn and soybean markets have begun to look considerably different. Corn has pushed above the psychologically important $5 level, while soybeans have moved well above […]
Tariffs and the American Farmer: How the Trade Fight Has Hit Agriculture This Season
For American farmers, tariffs are rarely an abstract debate about international trade. Eventually, they show up somewhere much closer to home—in the price of fertilizer, machinery and replacement parts, in export demand for grain, or in the basis offered at the local elevator. That has made the 2026 season particularly complicated. Farmers have been dealing […]
Arkansas Rice Farmers Are Being Squeezed: Why 2026 Has Become Such a Difficult Year
Rice is more than another row crop in Arkansas. It is one of the foundations of the state’s agricultural economy. Arkansas produced about 45% of all U.S. rice in 2025, making what happens in our fields important not only to Arkansas farmers, but to the entire American rice industry. (Arkansas Extension Service) And in 2026, […]