Eyes Wide Open - With Onions - Shay Myers
Market to Market - The MtoM Podcast
English - May 26, 2020 10:05 - 15.3 MB - ★★★★ - 27 ratingsInvesting Business iowa pbs market agriculture commodity markets economy farmers farming analysis Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Some commodities store better than others and for long periods of time. Onions are not one that can be thrown in a bin and the door shuts for years. When Shay Myers' 2020 crop was going in the ground, the exact destruction to demand was still unfolding due to the pandemic. The Idaho/Oregon farmer came back to the home place after college and had an 'eyes wide open' experience in 2006. But no professor could come up with a scenario of what's happening now as markets slam shut and product expires.