Why do farmers lose in the market?

STAT News Service carried an article this week that examines why farmers make marketing decisions that sometimes confound logic, like rushing to plant more acres of a particular crop when the countryside already appears to be saturated with it.

The short explanation is that passion tends to outweigh an objective examination of, say, the numbers.

It's worth a quick read. Click here to go to the STAT page.

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