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Crop Insurance Priority 1

Crop Insurance: Priority #1, by Agri-Pulse Communications No matter who wins this November’s presidential election, one of the first items facing a new Secretary of Agriculture will be developing a 2018 farm bill, a process sure to begin early in 2017. As we start that effort, it is worth noting that for all its rich diversity, American agriculture seems to be united behind a few large overarching issues: coordinated and scientific regulatory policy by EPA, FDA, and USDA; healthy trade promotion; biotechnology; and farm labor issues, including immigration. READ ENTIRE ARTICLE  

Eric Turpen Completes TALL Program

June 3, 2016 – College Station, Texas Associate Broker and CLB Littlefield Branch Office Manager, Eric Turpen recently attended the Texas Agricultural Lifetime Leadership (TALL) XIV class graduation. Eric was among the 28 outstanding young ag leaders chosen to participate in the two year XIV class.  Texas Agricultural Lifetime Leadership is a competitive leadership development program that includes seminars with experts, on-site tours, meetings with business and government leaders, international study and personal skills improvement. It is quite an honor to be chosen for the TALL program, and we would like to congratulate Eric on his accomplishment.  Please feel free …

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A Positive Take On Land Values

Expect Land Equilibrium Marcia Zarley Taylor, DTN Executive Editor LOUISVILLE, Ky. (DTN) — U.S. agriculture could dodge the long-feared collapse in farm real estate prices this commodity cycle, contend economists, lenders and appraisers attending a Farm Foundation meeting this week. But some cautioned the bubble more likely to burst will be used farm equipment values over the next year if profit margins don’t improve. “Land values haven’t seen near the pullback that everyone predicted,” observed Bruce Sherrick, director of the TIAA-CREF Center for Farmland Research at the University of Illinois. That moderation makes sense, he added, given that farmland investors …

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