1994-04 PAER

April 15, 1994

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  • Changing Times: A Farmer’s Perspective
  • You Need to Re-evaluate Crop Insurance!
  • Optimum Hog Marketing Weights With Higher Feed Prices
  • Off-Farm Employment and Earnings Among Indiana Farm Households

Articles in this Publication:

Changing Times: A Farmer’s Perspective

Will Erwin

You need to Re-evaluate Crop Insurance!

George Patrick, Professor and Donald Pershing, Extension Economist

Optimum Hog Marketing Weights With Higher Feed Prices

Michael A. Boland, Research Assistant and Paul V. Preckel, Associate Professor*

Off-Farm Employment and Earnings Among Indiana Farm Households

David H. Hearn, Research Assistant; Kevin T. McNamara, Associate Professor; and Freddie L. Barnard, Associate Professor

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