Fires, Floods, and Trade Wars ?

[Stocker Steve]

I realize that in todays world we have to generate news 24 hours a day, but the events over the last year seem to be extra ordinary. When is the last time we had this much turmoil in ag?

 

[TennesseeTuxedo]

Last major drought? 2011 perhaps?

 

[5S Cattle]

CT users make it sound like it’s a WEEKLY thing

 

[shaz]

The 2008 nightmare was pretty rough. Dry weather, price of corn going nuts and a really bad recession.

 

[Stocker Steve]

The 2008 nightmare was pretty rough. Dry weather, price of corn going nuts and a really bad recession.

The talking heads say it takes about 10 years for most folks to forget a financial blood bath. After that we can have a repeat.

 

[shaz]

Yep, look at some of the growth stock valuations. I don't think the people that got clobbered in 2000 are the same ones that bid Netflix up to 120 times earnings.

 

[sim.-ang.king]

Just another year, one thing you can always hedge on is change.

 

[Aaron]

Makes things exciting. If you have been financially careful all this time, you can glide through the air gracefully and pick off the tender morsels that are left from any financially-inept casualties.