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March 6, 2016

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Farmland Update From Indiana Farm Managers And Rural Appraisers
Craig Dobbins, Professor of Agricultural Economics

Small Business Administration Disaster Loans After Hurricane Katrina
Anna Josephson and Maria Marshall, Professor of Agricultural Economics

Growing The Pork Industry: Exports To China
John Lai, Graduate Research Assistant and H. Holly Wang, Professor

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Farmland Update from Indiana Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers

Craig Dobbins, Professor of Agricultural Economics

Small Business Administration Disaster Loans after Hurricane Katrina

Anna Josephson and Maria Marshall, Professor of Agricultural Economics 

Growing the Pork Industry: Exports to China

John Lai, Graduate Research Assistant and H. Holly Wang, Professor

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