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Ian Berry @ianberry.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

StoneX not afraid to piss off farmers.....raised its soybean crop estimate today and hiked the yield to 54.1 bushels/acre, from 53.0 previously. USDA is at 52.8. Lowered its corn crop estimate, but still well above USDA. It's yield estimate is 182.1 versus 182.9 previously. USDA down at 178.5.

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yall wanna see a duck army deployed into a field to eat bugs

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Ian Berry @ianberry.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sept. 1 stocks from USDA Corn: 2.095 billion bushels vs. 1.918 billion expected -- up 35% y-o-y Soybeans: 315 million bushels vs. 324 million expected --down 3% y-o-y Wheat: 1.846 billion vs. 1.872 expected -- down 14% y-o-y

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Ian Berry @ianberry.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Meet the First U.S. Farmer to Plant His Entire Crop Autonomously www.agweb.com/news/busines...

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Ian Berry @ianberry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There are too many playoff teams

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Ian Berry @ianberry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Farmers need this information,” said Seth Meyer, who resigned last December as chief economist for the Agriculture Department. “Otherwise they are at a distinct disadvantage to the major trading houses.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...

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Under Trump, Commodity Futures Trading Commission Scales Back Enforcement, Worrying Farmers (Gift Article)

The fate of two cotton brokers highlights how the Commodity Futures Trading Commission has scaled back its regulatory actions not just for crypto cases but also for the kinds of cases it has long poli...

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Ian Berry @ianberry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"BEIJING, Sept 28 (Reuters) - China is set to cut tariffs on a broad range of US agricultural goods, from corn and wheat to meat and dairy, but top import item soybeans were excluded from a tariff-reduction list its commerce ministry issued on Monday."

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Ian Berry @ianberry.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

More Dem for Governor signs than you'd normally expect to see in semi-rural Waukesha County

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Ian Berry @ianberry.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Many years ago, I had an interview with a very prestigious newspaper for a full-time stringer job. It was framed as a casual conversation so I brought a hot Dunkin coffee. Thought I was going to get the gig. Did not. And now whenever I think about not getting the gig, I think about that coffee.

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Joe Janzen @jjanzen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Only 0.67% of US agricultural land is foreign-held. The vast majority of that is forest land. Canada is by a wide margin the largest single origin of foreign farmland owners in the US.

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Ian Berry @ianberry.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

America would be in a better place right now had the SEC never existed

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Ian Berry @ianberry.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Purdue finds that modern planters provide zero yield boost compared to a 30-year-old planter (although they do save time) youtu.be/DuE2sBrayrA?...

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We Tested a 30-Year-Old Planter Against a Modern One

YouTube video by Purdue Center for Commercial Agriculture

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Ian Berry @ianberry.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"Are farmers turning on Trump?" is an extremely overplayed story in the national media, but we're approaching the point where it could actually happen

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Rick Murdock @rickmurdockagc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Worst era for farmers? We often see comparisons to “bad times” in agriculture. Here is my top 3 tough times list: 1. 1929-1933: All of the conditions present. Stock market crash, drought and nobody had any money. My grandfather born in 1903 had a young family when the Great Depression hit. He

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Ian Berry @ianberry.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Sure the Steelers are a mediocre football team, but don't forget they are also generally unlikeable on a personal level

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Ian Berry @ianberry.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"Global biofuel investment rose 62% to $7.7 billion in the first half of 2026, the highest half-year level since 2008, according to BNEF."

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 18/09/2026

*GROUP LINKED TO RFK JR. SOLD ACCESS TO US OFFICIALS AT EVENT *MAHA SUMMIT SOLICITED $300,000 SPONSORSHIPS FROM COMPANIES *HHS SAYS OFFICIALS WEREN'T AWARE OF SPONSORSHIP ARRANGEMENTS

(Bloomberg) -- A nonprofit group with ties to US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. solicited payment from companies in exchange for access to top agency officials at an upcoming event, according to documents viewed by Bloomberg News.
Ahead of the MAHA Summit on Sept. 29, a menu of sponsorship options was circulated to companies and consultants with various tiers of support, according to people familiar with the solicitations who weren’t authorized to speak publicly. The highest level, quoted at $300,000 to some prospective sponsors, guaranteed a speaking slot at the event “with meaningful input on the panel composition and topic” as well as a “private dinner for 30 guests” with Kennedy and Mehmet Oz, head of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
The organization running the event is part of a web of interconnected groups that comprise Kennedy’s external political network. It’s unusual for a Cabinet member to maintain an active political operation.

HHS spokesperson Emily Hilliard said in a written statement that “department officials listed as speakers were not involved in the planning or sponsorship activities for the MAHA Summit and were not aware of the sponsorship arrangements described.”
Kennedy has long criticized the health agencies he now oversees for being captured by corporate influences they are meant to regulate.
Companies that have signed on to sponsor the MAHA Summit include Anthropic, OpenAI, Walmart Inc., Hims & Hers Health Inc., Centene Corp., Tempus AI Inc. and Compass Pathways Plc, according to the event website. It’s unclear how much each contributed, though the most prominently featured logos are sleep apnea devicemaker ResMed Inc., whose chief medical officer is appearing on a panel with National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya, and cancer screening company Grail Inc., whose chief executive officer is speaking in another session.

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Keith Good @kgooda.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

According to preliminary data provided by the National Centers for Environmental Information, the contiguous U.S. experienced its hottest August during the 1895-2026 period of record. www.usda.gov/sites/defaul...?

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 17/09/2026

frantically trying to figure out how to convert a diesel engine to boneless wings

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Ian Berry @ianberry.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"They said Rep. Jim Baird (R-Indiana) asked the two officials whether Venezuelan oil would be available to farmers, who are facing record-high diesel prices of $6.28 per gallon on average."

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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.com · 16/09/2026

Sen. Mitch McConnell’s return to the Capitol this week gives Senate Republicans back the vote they were missing when their farm bill stalled in committee last month. It doesn’t give them a deal.

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Even With McConnell Back, Farm Bill Faces Long Road Ahead

Political hurdles remain even if the Senate Agriculture panel sends the measure to the floor Wednesday.

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Jonathan Erdman @wxjerdman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Record hottest first half of September tied or set for almost four dozen major reporting stations from the central and southern Rockies to the Southeast. Includes Austin, Dallas, Denver and Nashville. (Data: SERCC)

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

ed zitron thinking a guy resigned from anthropic pre-IPO as a ploy to juice his substack is a great example of how cynicism makes you stupid.

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Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

NDSU’s punter might hold the record for kinds of cultural experience in a six year span

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Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT @mikezaccardi.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Costco hikes motor oil prices and limits purchases $COST @seekingalpha Almost a double from $30-$35 to $58

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Dan Luu @danluu.com · 01/09/2026

How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been? danluu.com/zitron/

Feb 2024: "I believe we're reaching the upper limits about what generative AI can do and how accurate its outputs can be."
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March 2024: "Have We Reached Peak AI?"; another prediction that hallucinations mean that AI progress is limited to then-current levels
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April 2024: "As I previously warned, artificial intelligence companies are running out of data ..."; another prediction that models can't improve because there's no more data
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June 2024: OpenAI growth is stalling (with the implication it will continue to stall), which will lead to some kind of collapse of OpenAI
Wrong (it could be the case that OpenAI will collapse but, if so, it won't be due to any kind of growth stall from 2024)
July 2024: "Generative AI, as I said back in March, is peaking, if it hasn't already peaked. It cannot do much more than it is currently doing, other than doing more of it faster with some new inputs"
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July 2024: "Generative AI models aren’t getting more energy-efficient, nor are they getting more “powerful” in a way that would increase their functionality, nor are they even capable of automating things on their own [July 2024]"
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August 2024: "generative AI is a dead-end technology that has peaked”
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August 2024: re-iteration that the AI bubble has 3 quarters to prove itself (from March 2024) or there will be a collapse
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September 2024: "o1 shows that OpenAI is both desperate and out of ideas", with a re-iteration of the idea that models can't improve due to lack of data
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Oct 2024: OpenAI's forecast of $3.7B revenue in 2024 and $11.6B in 2025 and $100B in 2029 are absurd, "a statement so egregious that I am surprised it's not some kind of financial crime to say it out loud"
Wrong (2025 goal exceeded, 2029 TBD but not an egregious financial crime level of implausible)
Oct 2024: "[OpenAI revenue] growth is already slowing…

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Empty seats on both sides of me as I hear the president insist that the American Airlines Center is full and there are thousands of people outside. Nothing new to say, just... wow, 11 years of this, huh

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Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

MAXXED OUT at $9.999!! GasBuddy data showing 5 stations in California that have hit the limit and are selling diesel at the dispensers highest possible price: $9.999/gal

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Ian Berry @ianberry.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The Brewers' local TV broadcast deserves an Emmy for its perfectly timed shots of sad Cubs fans and Craig Counsell closeups when things are going wrong for them

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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 08/09/2026

Two extraordinary charts from today’s PISA test results: 1) School test scores continue to collapse internationally, underscoring how this is no longer a Covid effect but sustained decline. Those falls in reading and maths are equivalent to about two years of lost schooling.

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Ian Berry @ianberry.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Today's New York Times is a bit of a slog

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