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Regional Business and Economics Newspaper
January 2000
Focus: Agribusiness Concentration
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The pig in the python
Farmers believe they are getting squeezed by consolidation
and concentration on the front and back ends.
Concentrating on food concentration
Continued low commodity prices have turned up the heat on
consolidation in the food processing industry.
A borderless perspective
Despite what we like—or want—to think, the United States doesn't have a monopoly on agribusiness consolidation and concentration. |
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The cousin of consolidation: contracting
A widget example of the Herfindahl-Hirschman
Index
Links to Agricultural Resources
Opinion
The recent bankruptcy of Minnesota's Excelsior-Henderson Co., a
motorcycle manufacturer whose start-up was subsidized by state and
local governments, has again raised the issue of the wisdom of those
financial supports. The following editorials look at two sides of
the subsidy coin.
Excelsior-Henderson: Motorcycle dream fades
in bankruptcy
The lesson to be learned from the failed Excelsior-Henderson
Agricultural Finance
Bankers report farmers have some breathing
room
Banking
Noninterest income in the Ninth District:
The roles of community and credit card banks
Business Poll
Look for a growing economy in the new millennium
Michigan Minnesota Montana
North Dakota South Dakota Wisconsin
Jobs wanted: Will work for (next to) nothing
Tied to steel tracks: Trends in the Steel Industry...
Ninth District economy enters the new year in good shape
A snapshot of cash rent for farmland
Building boom is slowing
U.S. Map:
Winners and Losers:
Fiscal 1998 Return on Federal Tax Dollar
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Annual Report
