2001-02 PAER
February 15, 2001
- The Producer Protection Act – Will It Protect Producers?
- Global Warming: FAQ’s
- The Rural/Urban Conflict
- A Glimpse at the 2001 Ag Outlook
- Improving Farm Financial Performance
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February 15, 2001
Michael Boehlje, Professor; Lee Schrader, Professor Emeritus; Chris Hurt, Professor; Ken Foster, Professor; and James Pritchett, Assistant Professor
Michael Boehlje, Professor; Craig Dobbins, Professor; and Alan Miller, Farm Business Management Specialist
Stephen B. Lovejoy, Professor
Rick Chase, Ag & Natural Resources Educator and Scott Hutcheson, Leadership & Community Development Specialist
Larry DeBoer, Phil Paarlberg, Phil Abbott, Wally Tyner, Otto Doering, Chris Hurt, James Pritchett, Marshall Martin, Howard Doster, Craig Dobbins, and Mike Boehlje.
This is a targeted policy aimed at a narrow slice of the beef market — imported product for ground beef, much of which is lean processing beef — rather than a broad intervention in the fed-cattle market. It was announced in response to historically tight cattle supplies and unusually high beef prices. Within that narrow lane, the most plausible effect is some additional availability of lower-cost processing beef and some downward pressure on ground-beef prices.
READ MOREEnergy prices are 14.7 percent above year-ago levels, and yet the raw agricultural commodities that sit at the head of the food pipeline are cheaper than they were last July. That combination is the whole story of this month’s release — but it is not evidence that the energy shock missed agriculture.
READ MOREIn sum, state-level aggregate farmland prices exhibited relatively modest changes from 2025 to 2026. Respondents suggest that the majority of market forces are placing downward pressure on farmland prices, so it is not surprising that they expect modest declines through the remainder of 2026.
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