Larry Caldwell wrote:
> According the the Capital Press, Oregon's agricultural sales in 2007
> totalled $4.89 billion. That's up substantially from 2006. With the
> commodity price runup in early 2008, the year might be even better.
> Maybe. Some of the price runup has been from speculators pumping money
> into the futures market because stocks have been heading down. If they
> think stocks are risky, they have never traded commodities.
>
> Even so, demand is up, and supplies are tight. Things are looking
> pretty good for farmers in 2008.
back in February my soybean seed supplier called me and asked how
many bags of seed I'd be needing for the next planting. I was a
bit taken back because that was a first. In years past I'd just
show up and buy seed. He indicated seed was going to be in tight
supply. that kind of follows what happened when I finished getting
the bean crop in and wanted to plant some wheat but could not find
any seed... could be interesting in about 5 weeks when I go for
seed.
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