Continued uncertainty is impacting farmer sentiment  

Continued uncertainty is impacting farmer sentiment  

Uncertainty in the agriculture industry is impacting farmer sentiment, according to the latest Purdue University/CME Group Ag Economy Barometer.

Jim Mintert is the director for the Purdue Center for Commercial Agriculture.

“It’s uncertainty about input prices, it’s uncertainty about where output prices are going to be, it’s uncertainty about a cost-price squeeze,” he says. “People are very nervous about the fact that they’re going to have this very large dollar investment in crops that they put in the ground in 2023.

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