Using Enterprise Budgets to Compute Crop Breakeven Prices

June 6, 2017

Enterprise budgets are often one of the building blocks to creating a whole-farm plan.

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Assessing and Managing Strategic Risk

May 12, 2017

Managing both operational risk and strategic risk is important in today’s production agriculture environment.

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Cattle Finishing Net Returns in 2017 – A Bit Different from a Year Ago

May 12, 2017

This article discusses prospects for feeding cost of gain, the feeder to fed cattle price ratio, and cattle finishing net returns.

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2017 Indiana Farm Custom Rates

May 8, 2017

The rates reported in this publication were compiled from questionnaires received from farmers, farm owners, farm custom operators, and professional farm managers in Indiana.

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2017 Gross Revenue Scenarios for Soybeans

May 8, 2017

Soybean production margins have been tight since 2014 and are likely to remain tight in 2017. In this environment, it is natural to think about possible gross revenues for soybeans in 2017.

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2017 Gross Revenue Scenarios for Corn

May 8, 2017

Crop margins have been extremely tight since 2014 and are likely to remain tight for in 2017. In this environment, it is natural to think about possible gross revenues for corn in 2017.

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NAFTA Trade is Important for Meat Industry

May 6, 2017

The 2016 election cycle created a lot of confusion about the importance and benefits of trade in general. In particular, a good bit of the election year rhetoric focused on trade within the NAFTA trade bloc (U.S., Canada and Mexico).

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Relationship between Cash Rent and Net Return to Land

April 21, 2017

This article examines the relationship between cash rent and net return to land for Indiana, and attempts to answer this question.

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Pork Industry Favored by Strong Demand

April 6, 2017

Prices will be supported by stronger demand because of a growing U.S. economy and by a robust eight percent growth in exports as projected by USDA.

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