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• Impact of 45Z on the Corn Supply Chain for the Renewable Fuels Association, included as an attachment to RFA's comments to USDA, July 25, 2024

A regular columnist for The Waterways Journal about economic considerations important to the inland marine transportation industry.

• Horizons—At, On And Over The Horizon: Eclipsing the Infrastructure - Apr 12, 2024
• Horizons: Funneling The Commodities In An Uncertain World - Apr 19, 2024
• Horizons: Consumer Spending Rising While Freight Stagnates - May 3, 2024
• Horizons: The World Comes To The Doorstep, And The Door Is Open - May 20, 2024
• Memphis Hosts International Transportation Officials - May 20, 2024
• Horizons: Feeding the World, One Barge At A Time - May 31, 2024
• Horizons: U.S. Inland Barge Fleet Aging Despite Getting Bigger - Jun 14, 2024
• Horizons: Barge Fleet Cargo Is Diverse - Jul 3, 2024
• Horizons: Tank Barges And The GIWW - Jul 12, 2024
• Horizons: Pressure Signals From The Barge Pressure Indices - Jul 26, 2024 
• Horizons: Getting to Market with Power in the Water - Aug 9, 2024
• Horizons: Inspecting To Keep Trade Flowing - Aug 23, 2024 
• Horizons: Connecting The Hinterlands & The World Through America’s River Ports - Sep 13, 2024
• Horizons: New Crop Marketing Year, New Grain Export Potential - Sep 27, 2024
• Horizons: Navigating the Twin Challenges of Drought and Flooding - Oct 11, 2024
• Horizons: Low Water Equals Rising Freight Rates - Oct 25, 2024
• Horizons: Economic Opportunity Ready To Launch - Nov 8, 2024
• Horizons: 3 Rs For The Barge Industry: Retire, Replace, Resurge - Nov 22, 2024
• Horizons: Connecting Global Markets By Crossing Continents, Oceans - Dec 6, 2024 
• Horizons: Christmas Comes Early to the Mississippi River and Tributaries - Dec 20, 2024
• Horizons: Propelling the Inland Barge Market into 2025 - Jan 17, 2025
• Horizons: Infrastructure & Competitiveness Viewed Through The Wheelhouse And Beyond - Feb 21, 2025
• Horizons: Spring Forward: What's On The Horizon For The Barge Market? - Mar 21, 2025
• Horizons: Barge Newbuilds And Retirements Offset In 2024 - Apr 19, 2025
• Horizons: State of Industry Hinges on Commodity Volumes - May 16, 2025
• Horizons: UMR Serves As Agriculture Export Backbone - Jun 27, 2025

A regular columnist for the High Plains Journal about economic considerations important to agriculture. 

• Horizons: High Plains cropland values—a pause in the working? - Apr 26, 2024
• Horizons: Cattle cycle bottoms to historic low. Will peak be historic low? - May 6, 2024
• Horizons: What the beef is going on? - May 18, 2024
• Horizons: Feeding the world from the United States but less so - Jun 15, 2024
• Horizons: In and out of the ground, into storage—keeping grain in place - Jun 21, 2024 
• Horizons: Sustainable protectors through the cab - Jul 7, 2024
• Horizons: America! America! God shed His grace on thee - Jul 12, 2024 
• Horizons: Foraging for good value, but alfalfa losing ground doing so - Jul 26, 2024 
• Horizons: Run for the border, U.S. crops to Mexico - Aug 9, 2024
• Horizons: Is the cow jumping over the moon more moonshot or nonsensical? - Aug 30, 2024
• Horizons: A Maize to the Future - Sep 14, 2024
• Horizons: Counting Cattle and Calves Across the U.S. and the High Plains - Sep 28, 2024
• Horizons: Keeping crop supplies in perspective with crop storage - Oct 5, 2024 
• Horizons: Data, data, data, everywhere data - Nov 1, 2024 
• Horizons: U.S. agricultural land is attractive around the world - Nov 15, 2024 
• Horizons: Farm equipment trends across the High Plains - Nov 24, 2024
• Horizons: Record U.S. crop exports to Mexico face challenges crossing the border - Dec 21, 2024
• Horizons: Ag exports still were a good story to follow - Jan 3, 2025
• Horizons: High Plains grain storage highly under-utilized - Jan 31, 2025
• Horizons: Twenty years of the Renewable Fuel Standard - Mar 3, 2025
• Horizons: Cattle herd shrinks, prices go higher - Mar 14, 2025 
• Horizons: A lifeline of the High Plains—irrigation in focus - Apr 25, 2025
• Horizons: High prices have not hindered consumers as beef imports are up - May 23, 2025 
• Horizons: Putting a value on weed's theft from yields - Jun 20, 2025
• Horizons: Land of opportunity rekindles in the plains - Jul 4, 2025

A regular columnist for the Great Lakes Seaway Review about economic considerations important to the Great Lakes and Seaway. 

• Horizons: Influencing World Trade, Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway Experienced Growth of U.S. Grains and Soybeans During 2024 - Jan-Mar 2025
• Horizons: Promising Season Ahead, Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway Season Starts Firmly - Apr-Jun 2025

Together with Decision Innovation Solutions, Polaris Analytics and Consulting prepared the Weekly Market Perspectives for the U.S. Grains Council.

Market Perspectives offers readers information about current coarse grain markets including price, weather and freight data important for buying U.S. grains and their co-products.