1992-03 PAER

March 15, 1992

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  • Markets, Contracts, and Integration as Methods to Link Farm Production with Food Processing
  • Give Your Farm a Business Performance Checkup
  • Where Will Indiana Farmers with Physical Disabilities Find Jobs?
  • Government Program Decisions for 1992
  • Farm Decision-Makers’ View of the Future
  • Tax Tips for 1991-92

Articles in this Publication:

Markets, Contracts, and Integration as Methods to Link Farm Production with Food Processing

C.Scott Johnson, Research Assistant; Lee F. Schrader, Professor: and Kenneth A. Foster, Assistant Professor

Give Your Farm a Business Performance Checkup

Don Pershing, Extension Economist

Where Will Indiana Farmers with Physical Disabilities Find Jobs?

Ziyou Yu, Graduate Research Assistant and Deborah. I. Brown, Associate Professor

Government Program Decisions For 1992

Chris Hurt, Extension Economist; Don Pershing, Extension Economist; Lee Schrader, Professor; and Bob Jones, Professor

Farm Decision-Makers’ View of the Future

Gerald Ortman, Visiting Associate Professor; George Patrick, Professor; and Howard Doster, Associate Professor

Tax Tips for 1991-92

George F. Patrick, Extension Economist

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