Energy

Mexico Opposes Ethanol

Posted on June 30, 2008 by Eric OKeefe

As we’ve seen over the last few months, skyrocketing commodity prices are pushing land values to record levels. They are also squeezing cattlemen and other producers who rely on corn and other grains to fatten livestock and poultry. One of…

Rising Fuel Costs & the American Landowner

Posted on June 17, 2008 by Eric OKeefe

11 billion miles. That’s the decrease in the number of miles Americans drove in March 2008 versus March 2007, according to the Federal Highway Administration. As this article in the Wall Street Journal points out, the 4.3 percent drop is…

Tagged with: energy, Eric O'Keefe, fuel costs, rising fuel costs
Posted in Energy, Eric OKeefe, Feature

High Price of Corn Means Less Land for CRP

Posted on May 6, 2008 by Land Report Editors

Driving today I tuned into C-SPAN Radio on my XM dial looking for something better than the latest Top 20. I caught the tail end of a conversation, Congressional testimony it sounded like, regarding the current food crisis that is…

Tagged with: corn prices, CRP, ethanol, food crisis, public policy
Posted in Conservation, Energy, Farming, Feature, Midwest

End of the Conservation Reserve Program?

Posted on April 1, 2007 by Land Report Editors

BY JOSEPH GUINTO PUBLISHED APRIL 2007 With the Bush administration backing off on the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), conservation and hunting groups fear the 22-year-old program once dubbed “Noah’s Arc for Wildlife” is a sinking ship. Backers of the CRP,…