Idaho agriculture overcame a struggling dairy market to record a second consecutive year of stellar cash receipts in 2023, propelled by record values of four of the state’s major crops, according to a new University of Idaho economic report.

If you have a short ball-handler on your basketball team, do you make adjustments to your game plan? Sure you do. Why are market principles any different?

Do you remember Sea-Monkeys? When I was young, I saw the advertisements in the back of magazines and knew I needed to have my own Sea-Monkeys. For only $1.25, I was promised the Sea-Monkeys, a one-year supply of food, living plasma, water purifier, a fully illustrated manual on Sea-Monkeys care and a growth guarantee in writing.

At the time I wrote this article, we were in the middle of experiencing some of the most volatile futures markets in years.