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Farm Futures Business Summit highlights, market updates, Ag States of America, and more featured this week.

January 28, 2023

46 Min View

This past week at the Farm Futures Business Summit, Dr. David Kohl, Professor Emeritus, Virginia Tech University, outlines the risk that came out of last year in the commodities markets as we saw volatility both on market pricing market as well as input pricing and he senses that it is here to stay.

Max talks with Philanthropist Howard G. Buffett before he prepares to head back to Ukraine. Howard shares that estimates show 22-25% less crop land will be planted in Ukraine this year due to weather or the danger to farm. An organization is investigating and documenting war crimes that are related to agriculture and the destroyed infrastructure is significant. Howard explains how he operates his organization and why he personally goes to the conflict area.

Mike is joined by Garrett Toay, AgTraderTalk, LLC., to discuss more about the markets. Garrett talks in detail on the soybean, wheat, corn and cattle markets.

This week in Colby Ag Tech, Chad Colby spotlights a small orbital polisher from Protect Systems.

This week in Ag States of America, Charlie Berens celebrates American agriculture from Michigan.

Max is joined by Eric Raby, Senior Vice President, Amerigas, Claas, to talk more factors that play into equipment business and how they can help farmers more from the technology standpoint.

Greg Soulje joins Max and gives his weather forecast for the week ahead and what to expect in the upcoming forecast.

Max’s Tractor Shed spotlights a 1956 Allis-Chalmers WD-45 owned by Dale Benson, Trivoli, Illinois.

Mark Stock shares this week’s report from BigIron Auctions.

This week the FFA Chapter Tribute goes to Seth Ariens, Indiana FFA State President.

Farm Futures Ag Finance Business Boot Camp and Business Summit coming up January 18-20, 2023 in Coralville, Iowa.

This Week in Agribusiness features market news, ag technology, weather and farm management and equipment information and opinions. This leading ag news program airs weekly on RFD-TV, and can be found each week on FarmProgress.com.

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