| Corn talks, cash walks | |
| February 04, 2008 | |
| Minneapolis Star Tribune | |
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Want an early tip about the size of this year's corn harvest? Or a handy chart about which nations consume the most corn? Of course you do, and that's why you're hoping to snag a copy of the 2008 Dutch Farmer's Almanac, packed with historical data, tips, cartoons by the New Yorker's Bill Lee and agricultural forecasts.<p> Author Alan Kluis, a broker at the Minneapolis Grain Exchange and a market commentator who owns a farm in Chandler, Minn., said he wrote the book after perusing competing almanacs while at the supermarket. "Here's my version," he writes in the book's introduction. "For farmers who actually want to make money." The book is flush with Al-isms ("Always bullish, sometimes broke"). It also features a few dozen cartoons from a nationally known cartoonist, which Kluis said cost as much as the actual publishing of the book, available at www.kluispublishing.com. The price is listed as "$15 or 5 bushels of corn, whichever is more." Given the latest market numbers, you'll need to bring corn to get the book. |
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