Breakfast With Bill

Planting pace, wheat double crop soybeans, Illinois Republican Convention, politics and a Farm Bill Update

Will the house Republicans get a farm bill out of committee and passed before the election? I also discuss how other current events may affect the potential farm bill.

NASS Acres, Bridge down, Trump and Mainstream agriculture and Biden's new Chinese tariffs, Inflation Reduction Act the Dems have their farm program already, get in line or else, reminds me of the late 1970s in agriculture

Taxes, regulations, rules and court cases are having a self sorting effect on where people live, do business and where you even incorporate your business. Is Illinois becoming California quicker than California became California? Plus other examples.

I discuss the Iowa and New Hampshire primaries and the record breaking results. I also discuss future primaries and other political events going on

I was asked this question today so I thought I would give you all an answer. What do I listen to? Well listen and find out

Suez Canal, low water with the Panama Canal and Mississippi River and recent rail closures has really changed the transportation landscape

Do we still take crop insurance. How do I select hybrids and PARP

Financial problems, transportation problems, state budget problems, I look at what is ahead of Agriculture in early 2024

Lots going on in the world. Agriculture is looking for a new Farm Bill. I mention what I don't want to see happen and that a two year extension is not a bad thing. I mention a very good protest song and mainly all the politics going on around a new Farm Bill

Discuss where the corn crop is at where corn prices are and do we spend anymore money on this corn crop

all the signers of the Declaration of Independence committed treason a word that is thrown around a lot these days and I give a personal update on the drought

We finish part 1 of presidential politics and give a couple book recommendations and videos to watch

Myself and a special guest discuss the upcoming primaries and general elections that will decide who is President in 2025

Russian Grain Deal, De-Globalization part 2, China possibility going to war????, Banks and bad paper, lots to digest and all interwoven. How do we manage all this risk?

Discussion on a new farm bill. Why I think we should just extend the current one for two years. What conservative republicans want and what democrats want.

BRICS and now BRIICSS plus And China being the diplomatic peace maker? Unipolar USA dominated worth to a multi-polar many countries dominated world. Is US agriculture prepared for this?

XI is heading to Russia and hoping to convince them and Ukraine to come to some kind of peace deal. This has big implications for American agriculture. I dive into what I see as possible outcomes.

Lots of information to digest. Banking Problems are going to affect agriculture.

Lots of economic and political situations going on right now. I have more questions than answers but do have the experience of going through the 1989s.

Oil being traded in a currency other than the dollar. The Ukraine War is getting dangerous for the world. Trump election jury in Georgia is just nuts. SBF donated more money to politicians than known before

Labor continues to be a problem for agriculture. I discuss some possible options. Land use livestock buildings and foreign ownership specifically.

Gone to several farm meetings this winter. My take on what was discussed and what I thought was important. I also touch on today's news about Russia and oil.

So much going on the last full week of January 2023. Most of it will probably at some point affect agriculture. Some of it in a big way. I discuss this. Enjoy

Lots of opinions on not only what should be in a Farm Bill, but if, how, why, or an extension happens with the “new” farm bill. The Conservative 20 may have some influence since they were given the chance to make a run for a balanced budget

The Twenty, which are 20 conservatives, mainly from the Freedom Caucus who used their leverage to the fullest to hopefully what will be a fundamental change in how Washington D.C. operates. Campaign donations from crypto currency Sam Bankman Fried and others and high tech employees that have went primarily to democrats and how this probably affected the 2018, 2020 and 2022 elections. And, how some or most of these donations may dry up in 2024. Then finally the political unrest in Brazil and what that means for the soybean market.

Between the stock market and crypto, over 12 $ Trillion has been destroyed. Gone, disappeared, etc. and this will have consequences for global finances and personal finances. I look at real estate and a few other markets. Small discussion on FTX. Look at how this relates to agriculture and while the rest of the world is losing money agriculture continues to appreciate in value.

Well agriculture and the country has survived another election. I give my take on what happened. Not really bad for either side in the ending result. Split government may make it hard to come to an agreement on what direction a new farm bill will go. More likely result is a two year extension of the current one.

lots of background on how I learned a few things in politics. Some of the things I look at with making predictions. I then make my predictions for the 2022 elections nationally.

Ukraine/Russian war causes lots of problems. We have caused some ourselves. Lots to think about. I quote Jordan Peterson a lot in this podcast. What does winning look like? How does the world extract itself from this conflict? Lots of people in the world at great risk of being hungry and cold this winter.

Carbon dioxide pipe line so companies can be more green and jam it into the ground under some of the best soil in the world

Interest rates are rising input costs are increasing overall farmers are going to pay 40% more interest next year

Prairie solis, Mollisols, black dirt, whatever you call it, these soils are the best in the world. Only 6.9% of the world's ice free soils. But these soils feed the world and a big war is being fought on a decent chunk of them now.

The Internet and the Printing Press. Are some of today's problems the result of a huge uptick in information just like when the printing press was invented and people were able to read things for themselves. Such as the Bible. Huge changes happened then and are the changes we see now similar? I talk also how this affects agriculture

Agricultural Policy is always in the “developmental” stage, but recent world events have triggered outside the box discussions on policy. And then, some things have not changed for 40 years

Abe Lincoln, Liz Cheney, establishment agriculture and how it all relates to each other. Not as long as I originally thought. I reference my previous podcast "Trump and Sanders save democracy". Establishment agriculture is going to have its work cut out for it relating to both the "New Right" and the "New Left". I also reference republican politicians who are establishment that want to wrap themselves as "Abraham Lincoln". Lincoln was a radical. He knew what his election would result in.

Lots of things happening in the world right now. Lots of unrest and not happy people around the world and in the United States. I look at all that is going on. Future episodes I will look at what agriculture needs to do.

So many new laws coming out of California. Other states are copying some of these. But, all these laws will affect what agriculture's profitability will become.

Discuss what I see controlling agriculture moving forward not a pretty picture

Lots of Federal Goverment employees not happy with what former President Trump is proposing for new work rules. So the “Empire” struck back. Career employees up and down the chain went along with what happened. Comments on that

Agriculture and the world has lots of things happening right now. I talk about these things. In later podcasts we will discuss how to survive them

Lots of promises probably very little progress My take on what is happening

Digital currency and social credit scores Why I think it is coming and maybe faster than you think

CPI 9.1% Discussion on high inflation and high internet rates and what that means for your bottom line

Ever seen a country lose its mind in relation to food policy Sri Lanka did

Valuation of assets and profit potential is at the heart of the Twitter “battle” agriculture faces many of the same problems

Illinois Republican primary a farmer won a Congressional Seat and another Farmer is the Republican candidate for governor You can win

Crazy times when the anti establishment candidate is not anti enough

Illinois while not the only state with a political situation it is in, has conservative agriculture organizations in a very liberal state. So how does one operate in that environment?

How, when, whatever, whenever, etc. and that is just the grain markets not the actual solutions

Another announcement from USDA that at the beginning sounds like it really may add some acres but once you read the fine print it doesn't change much of anything