Are better times ahead for 2023?2023 is right around the corner. With the current year ending, we are drawn to look back and reflect. As the new year approaches it brings with it the promise of things getting better than what we have experienced.

This year has certainly brought challenges to not just producers but everyone. The continued drought forced many to liquidate their herds at unseen rates. The record-high inflation made it more difficult for people to purchase even necessities. And to top it off the conflict in Ukraine ended up causing inputs like fertilizer to increase to astronomical levels.

I suppose we should spin all of the challenges we have faced into something positive. Just as a calm sea never makes a skilled sailor, stable markets never make a skilled producer. It is in dealing with challenges that we are able to expand our skills and improve. That being said can things finally turn around for us going into 2023? Here are 4 things to look at that could possibly answer that for us.

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