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Examining Trends in Liquidity for a Sample of Kansas Farms

Liquidity measures in 2018 will depend on a multitude of factors including crop prices and yields, weather, and other factors, all of which are inter-related.

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Farm Safety Net for 2018

Examine historical and 2018 projected earnings per acre for a case farm in west central Indiana.

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Relative Profitability of Corn and Soybean Production in Indiana

Discussion of difference in budgeted earnings or profitability between corn and soybeans since 2007.

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How Are You Deploying Farm Profits?

How a farm deploys, or distributes, profits across current and non-current assets can be an important consideration, especially when financial conditions are tight.

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Drivers of Consolidation and Structural Change in Production Agriculture

The production agricultural sector has historically been much more fragmented than other stages of the food and agricultural industry, but it has been transitioning for decades from modest size, independent businesses to increasingly larger scale businesses that are more tightly aligned across the value chain. This article examines the key drivers that are likely to influence further consolidation and structural change in the next few years, and discusses the implications of the key drivers on agribusinesses.

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Farm Machinery Costs and Custom Rates

This article compares machinery costs per acre for a case farm to custom rates associated with a field cultivation operation and a self-propelled sprayer operation.

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Using Enterprise Budgets to Compute Crop Breakeven Prices

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

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Relationship between Cash Rent and Net Return to Land

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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Accelerated Depreciation and Machinery Purchases

This article discussed items that need to be considered in addition to tax management strategies when evaluating the decision to purchase machinery and equipment.

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An Update on the Farm Safety Net

This article examined earnings per acre projections for a case farm in west central Indiana. Under the price and yield combinations or scenarios examined in this paper, annual projected earnings per acre were negative from 2014 to 2018 for the case farm.

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