A monthly survey of bank CEOs in Missouri and nine other Midwestern states shows a dismal outlook. The report shows the February score fell to 38 on a zero-to-100 scale, where 50 is growth neutral. Creighton University Economics Professor Ernie Goss said the new...
Geopolitical events can have an impact on Missouri’s economy driving up or down prices depending on what is happening. Rep. Mike Haffner, R-Pleasant Hill, who co-chairs the Missouri Legislature’s Joint Committee on Agriculture, is keeping an eye on what’s happening in...
Farmers with soybeans dying in the fields and livestock to feed have a difficult choice to make. Many Missouri producers who last year had a hay surplus sold it to counterparts in drought-stricken states. Now those same Missouri farmers are experiencing drought and...
Corn and soybean market prices have hit record highs this week due to the Midwestern drought, but so far the impact on consumer prices is just beginning. Pat Westhoff is the Co-Director of the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) at the University...
