2000-07 PAER

July 15, 2000

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  • Can I Repay? Managing Farm Debt Repayment Capacity
  • What’s the Right Rent Now? How Can it Be Kept Right Easily?
  • Environmental Awareness and Attitudes: Large-Scale Farmers and the General Public

Articles in this Publication:

Can I Repay? Managing Farm Debt Repayment Capacity

Alan Miller, Farm Business Management Specialist; Michael Boehlje, Professor; and Craig Dobbins, Professor

What’s the Right Rent Now? How Can it Be Kept Right Easily?

Howard Doster, Purdue Extension Economist

Environmental Awareness and Attitudes: Large-Scale Farmers and the General Public*

George F. Patrick, Professor

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