{"id":12374,"date":"2022-06-07T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/commercialag\/ageconomybarometer\/?p=12374"},"modified":"2022-06-08T10:50:48","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T14:50:48","slug":"farmer-sentiment-plummets-as-production-costs-skyrocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/commercialag\/ageconomybarometer\/farmer-sentiment-plummets-as-production-costs-skyrocket\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmer Sentiment Plummets As Production Costs Skyrocket"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The&nbsp;<em>Purdue University-CME Group Ag Economy Barometer<\/em>&nbsp;plummeted in May to a reading of just 99, the weakest farmer sentiment&nbsp;reading&nbsp;since April 2020. The May 2022&nbsp;barometer&nbsp;reading marked just the&nbsp;9<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;time since data collection began in fall 2015 that the overall measure of farmer sentiment fell below 100.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n<!--noteaser-->\n\n\n\n<p><em>James Mintert and Michael Langemeier, Purdue Center for Commercial Agriculture<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>A breakdown on the Purdue\/CME Group <em>Ag Economy Barometer <\/em>April results can be viewed at <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/wSf2dZ3fqAc\">https:\/\/purdue.ag\/barometervideo<\/a>. Find the audio podcast discussion for insight on this month&#8217;s sentiment at <a href=\"https:\/\/pucommercialag.podbean.com\/e\/ag-barometer-insight-may-2022-survey\/?token=f752bacc02b1860d88706ea9fef5fa31\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/purdue.ag\/agcast<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/commercialag\/ageconomybarometer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/May-2022-Ag-Economy-Barometer-1.pdf\">Download report (pdf)<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<em>Purdue University-CME Group Ag Economy Barometer<\/em>&nbsp;plummeted in May to a reading of just 99, the weakest farmer sentiment&nbsp;reading&nbsp;since April 2020. The May 2022&nbsp;barometer&nbsp;reading marked just the&nbsp;9<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;time since data collection began in fall 2015 that the overall measure of farmer sentiment fell below 100.&nbsp;Agricultural producers\u2019 perceptions regarding current conditions on their farms, as well as their future expectations, both weakened this month. The&nbsp;<em>Index of Current Conditions<\/em>&nbsp;fell 26&nbsp;points to a reading of 94,&nbsp;while the&nbsp;<em>Index of Future Expectations<\/em>&nbsp;declined 21 points to 101&nbsp;in May.&nbsp;Notably,&nbsp;this month&nbsp;saw&nbsp;a rise in the percentage of respondents who feel their farm is worse off financially now than a year earlier, an indication that escalating production costs are troubling producers.&nbsp;The&nbsp;<em>Purdue University-CME Group&nbsp;Ag Economy Barometer<\/em>&nbsp;sentiment index&nbsp;is calculated each month from 400 U.S. agricultural producers\u2019 responses to a telephone survey. This month\u2019s survey was conducted&nbsp;from May 16-20,&nbsp;2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"attachment_12375\" style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12375\" class=\"wp-image-12375 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/commercialag\/ageconomybarometer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/figure1.jpg\" alt=\"Figure 1. Purdue\/CME Group Ag Economy Barometer, October 2015-May 2022.\" width=\"960\" height=\"696\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/commercialag\/ageconomybarometer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/figure1.jpg 960w, https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/commercialag\/ageconomybarometer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/figure1-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/commercialag\/ageconomybarometer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/figure1-768x557.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12375\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/strong> <strong>Figure 1.<\/strong> Purdue\/CME Group Ag Economy Barometer, October 2015-May 2022.<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"attachment_12376\" style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12376\" class=\"wp-image-12376 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/commercialag\/ageconomybarometer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/figure2.jpg\" alt=\"Figure 2. Indices of Current Conditions and Future Expectations, October 2015-May 2022.\" width=\"960\" height=\"696\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/commercialag\/ageconomybarometer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/figure2.jpg 960w, https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/commercialag\/ageconomybarometer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/figure2-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/commercialag\/ageconomybarometer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/figure2-768x557.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12376\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Figure 2.<\/strong> Indices of Current Conditions and Future Expectations, October 2015-May 2022.<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Producers exhibited a much more negative view of their farms\u2019 financial situation this month as the&nbsp;<em>Farm Financial Performance Index&nbsp;<\/em>fell 14 points from April\u2019s reading of 95 to 81 in May. The percentage of producers who expect their farm\u2019s financial performance this year&nbsp;to worsen compared to last year&nbsp;rose&nbsp;from&nbsp;29% in April to 38% in May. Responses received to the financial performance question this&nbsp;May were nearly the&nbsp;polar&nbsp;opposite of responses received a year earlier. In May 2022,&nbsp;38% of producers said they expect worse financial performance&nbsp;for&nbsp;their farms compared to a year earlier with just 19% of respondents expecting better financial performance. This stands in contrast to a year earlier when 42 percent of survey respondents expected better financial performance&nbsp;while&nbsp;just 16% said they thought&nbsp;a&nbsp;worse financial performance was likely.&nbsp;Over the course of the last 13 months,&nbsp;the Index of Farm Financial Performance&nbsp;has fallen 41% below its life of survey high of 138 set in April 2021. The decline points to farmers\u2019&nbsp;lack of confidence in their farms\u2019 financial outlook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<em>Farm Capital Investment Index<\/em>&nbsp;drifted lower in May to 35,&nbsp;a new low for the index. The May reading was&nbsp;down&nbsp;just&nbsp;one point from a month&nbsp;earlier but&nbsp;was&nbsp;30 points below its May 2021 reading.&nbsp;In this month\u2019s survey,&nbsp;only&nbsp;13% of respondents said this is a good time to make large investments in their operation while 78%&nbsp;said they&nbsp;viewed it as a bad time to invest in&nbsp;things like&nbsp;machinery and buildings.&nbsp;Half of the producers in this month\u2019s survey said their machinery purchase plans were impacted by low&nbsp;farm machinery inventory levels, up from 41%&nbsp;in&nbsp;the April survey,&nbsp;suggesting that supply chain issues are at least partly responsible for the ongoing weakness in the capital investment index.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When asked what their biggest concerns are for their farming operation, once again&nbsp;producers,&nbsp;overwhelmingly (44%),&nbsp;chose higher input costs as the biggest issue facing their farming operation in the upcoming year.&nbsp;Nearly 6 out of&nbsp;10 (57%) producers said they expect prices paid for farm inputs&nbsp;in 2022 to rise 30% or more compared to prices paid in 2021. The percentage of producers expecting costs to&nbsp;increase&nbsp;this dramatically has risen sharply since the end of 2021,&nbsp;shifting&nbsp;from 38%&nbsp;of producers&nbsp;in December who expected costs to rise by 30% or more to this month\u2019s 57% of all respondents.&nbsp;For the second&nbsp;month in a row, the May survey asked producers about their expectations for input costs in 2023 compared to 2022. This month nearly 39% of producers said they expect costs next year to rise 10% or more compared to this year\u2019s already inflated costs.&nbsp;Compared to the April survey,&nbsp;fewer producers&nbsp;this month&nbsp;said they expect to see input prices decline next year. In April,&nbsp;18% of respondents&nbsp;were anticipating lower input prices in 2023,&nbsp;but in May just 12% of producers said they expect input prices to fall back in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Noticeably fewer producers this month reported having difficulty purchasing crop inputs for the 2022 crop season than&nbsp;in prior surveys.&nbsp;In the May survey,&nbsp;one out of five (19%) producers said they had difficulty purchasing inputs for the 2022 crop season, down from an average of 32% who reported difficulties&nbsp;in&nbsp;the December through April surveys.&nbsp;Among those producers who still reported difficulties, problems were apparent in all major input categories including herbicides, farm machinery parts, fertilizer and insecticides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"attachment_12377\" style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12377\" class=\"wp-image-12377 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/commercialag\/ageconomybarometer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/figure3.jpg\" alt=\"Figure 3. Farm Financial Performance Index, April 2018-May 2022.\" width=\"960\" height=\"696\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/commercialag\/ageconomybarometer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/figure3.jpg 960w, https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/commercialag\/ageconomybarometer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/figure3-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/commercialag\/ageconomybarometer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/figure3-768x557.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12377\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/strong> <strong>Figure 3.<\/strong> Farm Financial Performance Index, April 2018-May 2022.<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"attachment_12378\" style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12378\" class=\"wp-image-12378 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/commercialag\/ageconomybarometer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/figure4.jpg\" alt=\"Figure 4. Farm Capital Investment Index, October 2015-May 2022.\" width=\"960\" height=\"696\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/commercialag\/ageconomybarometer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/figure4.jpg 960w, https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/commercialag\/ageconomybarometer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/figure4-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/commercialag\/ageconomybarometer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/figure4-768x557.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12378\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/strong> <strong>Figure 4.<\/strong> Farm Capital Investment Index, October 2015-May 2022.<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"attachment_12379\" style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12379\" class=\"wp-image-12379 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/commercialag\/ageconomybarometer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/figure5.jpg\" alt=\"Figure 5. Plans for Farm Machinery Purchases in the Upcoming Year Compared to a Year Ago, March 2020-May 2022.\" width=\"960\" height=\"696\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/commercialag\/ageconomybarometer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/figure5.jpg 960w, https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/commercialag\/ageconomybarometer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/figure5-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/commercialag\/ageconomybarometer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/figure5-768x557.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12379\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/strong> <strong>Figure 5.<\/strong> Plans for Farm Machinery Purchases in the Upcoming Year Compared to a Year Ago, March 2020-May 2022.<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"attachment_12380\" style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12380\" class=\"wp-image-12380 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/commercialag\/ageconomybarometer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/figure6.jpg\" alt=\"Figure 6. Plans for Constructing New Farm Buildings and Grain Bins, May 2021-May 2022.\" width=\"960\" height=\"696\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/commercialag\/ageconomybarometer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/figure6.jpg 960w, https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/commercialag\/ageconomybarometer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/figure6-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/commercialag\/ageconomybarometer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/figure6-768x557.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12380\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/strong> <strong>Figure 6.<\/strong> Plans for Constructing New Farm Buildings and Grain Bins, May 2021-May 2022.<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"attachment_12381\" style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12381\" class=\"wp-image-12381 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/commercialag\/ageconomybarometer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/figure7.jpg\" alt=\"Figure 7. Short-Term Farmland Value Expectations Index, November 2015-May 2022.\" width=\"960\" height=\"696\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/commercialag\/ageconomybarometer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/figure7.jpg 960w, https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/commercialag\/ageconomybarometer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/figure7-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/commercialag\/ageconomybarometer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/figure7-768x557.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12381\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/strong> <strong>Figure 7.<\/strong> Short-Term Farmland Value Expectations Index, November 2015-May 2022.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"s7\">Despite the weak sentiment expressed by farmers regarding their farms\u2019 financial performance, producers remain relatively optimistic about farmland values. The <\/span><span class=\"s8\">Long-Term <\/span><span class=\"s8\">Farmland Value Expectations Index<\/span><span class=\"s7\">, based upon producers<\/span><span class=\"s7\">\u2019<\/span><span class=\"s7\"> farmland outlook over the upcoming 5 years,<\/span><span class=\"s7\"> rose 8 points in May to a reading of 149. This month\u2019s reading takes the <\/span><span class=\"s7\">long-term <\/span><span class=\"s7\">index back to <\/span><span class=\"s7\">its pre-pandemic (February 2020) level. The <\/span><span class=\"s8\">Short-Term Farmland Value<\/span> <span class=\"s8\">Expectations<\/span><span class=\"s8\"> Index<\/span><span class=\"s7\">, based upon producers<\/span><span class=\"s7\">\u2019<\/span><span class=\"s7\"> 12-<\/span><span class=\"s7\">month outlook, at a reading of 145 was virtually unchanged from a month earlier. The short-term index has been range<\/span><span class=\"s7\">&#8211;<\/span><span class=\"s7\">bound throughout 2022, fluctuating between 142 and 145. Both the short and long-term<\/span><span class=\"s7\"> farmland<\/span> <span class=\"s7\">indices in May were 7 to 8% below the peak levels attained last fall.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s7\">The contrast between farmers\u2019 relatively optimistic view of farmland values and their expectations for weak farm financial performance continues to be a bit of a puzzle.<\/span> <span class=\"s7\">For the last several months, ou<\/span><span class=\"s7\">r<\/span><span class=\"s7\"> monthly survey has included a follow-up question posed to respondents who expect farmland values to rise over the next 5 years, asking them about the main reason they expect values to rise. Respondents have consistently chosen non-farm investor demand as the top reason followed closely by inflation<\/span><span class=\"s7\">. Interestingly, few respondents chose strong farm cash flows or low interest rates as the main reason they expect farmland values to rise.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"attachment_12384\" style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12384\" class=\"wp-image-12384 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/commercialag\/ageconomybarometer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/figure8.jpg\" alt=\"Figure 8. Long-Term Farmland Value Expectations Index, May 2017-May 2022.\" width=\"960\" height=\"696\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/commercialag\/ageconomybarometer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/figure8.jpg 960w, https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/commercialag\/ageconomybarometer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/figure8-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/commercialag\/ageconomybarometer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/figure8-768x557.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12384\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Figure 8.<\/strong> Long-Term Farmland Value Expectations Index, May 2017-May 2022.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"s7\">The war in Ukraine has disrupted food production and distribution leading to serious concerns about <\/span><span class=\"s7\">the <\/span><span class=\"s7\">availability of food supplies, especially in importing countries. <\/span><span class=\"s7\">Wheat supplies and prices are of special concern because many low-income countries are reliant upon wheat imports from the Black Sea region. Multiple policy proposals have been discussed in the U.S. as a means of encouraging more wheat production. This month\u2019s survey included several questions focused on <\/span><span class=\"s7\">crop producers\u2019<\/span><span class=\"s7\"> wheat production plans and how they might respond to policy proposals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s7\">Approximately 39% of the respondents to this month\u2019s survey said they have used a wheat\/double-crop soybean crop rotation at some time in the past. Twenty-eight percent of the producers who have experience with a wheat\/double-crop soybean rotation said they plan to increase the percentage of their farms\u2019 cropland devoted to this rotation by planting more wheat in fall 2022. The shift towards increasing wheat acreage is likely the result of the expected profitability improvement of the wheat\/double-crop soybean rotation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>One of the policy proposals discussed by the Biden administration is a $10\/acre double-crop soybean crop insurance subsidy to make this crop rotation more attractive to producers. This month\u2019s survey asked respondents if the subsidy would encourage them to plant more wheat in fall 2022 than would otherwise be the case. Among producers who have employed a wheat\/double-crop soybean rotation in the past, just over one in five (22%) said it would encourage them to plant more wheat. Among producers who have <u>not<\/u> followed a wheat\/double-crop soybean rotation in the past, just one out of ten producers said the insurance subsidy would encourage them to plant more wheat this fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Wrapping Up<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Farmer sentiment plummeted in May as the&nbsp;<em>Ag Economy Barometer<\/em>&nbsp;dipped to its lowest level since the early days of the pandemic in spring 2020. Despite strong commodity prices,&nbsp;producers are very concerned about their farms\u2019 financial performance in 2022.&nbsp;Weakness in producers\u2019 sentiment appears to be driven by the rapid rise in production costs and uncertainty about where input prices are headed.&nbsp;Fewer producers this month said they experienced difficulty in purchasing crop inputs than reported having difficulty&nbsp;throughout&nbsp;the winter and early spring,suggesting that&nbsp;input availability did not impact planting progress this spring. Despite concerns about farm financial performance, producers remain relatively optimistic about farmland values, largely because of expectations for strong non-farm investor demand and inflation. Finally, this month\u2019s&nbsp;survey suggests&nbsp;that producers with wheat\/double-crop soybean experience plan to increase their wheat acreage in fall 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The&nbsp;Purdue University-CME Group Ag Economy Barometer&nbsp;plummeted in May to a reading of just 99, the weakest farmer sentiment&nbsp;reading&nbsp;since April 2020. 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