Managing for Profit

Will the past become the future?

Market analyst and farmer Tregg Cronin examines historical data on peaks in inflation relating to the topping out of farm income. What can be drawn from decades past to predict what prices and costs might be in the coming months? Cronin, a northcentral South Dakota farmer, draws on circumstances in the 1970s and 1980s to project what possible impact current inflation will have on farm income at large.