U.S. farmers will not be the only producers looking for ways to hold their financial statements together as it is becoming a worldwide problem. Everyone else in the crop production chain must do the same.

  Weather It was 97°F in Fargo, North Dakota yesterday, the warmest day of 2015 despite being in October. It beat the old temperature record by a whopping 12 degrees. Today it is in the 40s with wind gusts up to 50 miles per hour. Is this an indication of global warming or El Nino? The latter continues to strengthen even as weather forecasters are now starting to watch for its collapse. This El Nino is ranked as the second most intense since 1950 with the record set in 1997-98. Most meteorologists don’t think it will st...