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A series of leasing articles that discuss cash rents and land values: Leasing Principles for Cropland, Providing Reports for Crop Landowners, Flexible Cash Rent Leases, Incorporating Conservation Practices & Improvements into Cropland Leases?, Should I Use an Annual or Multi-Year Cropland Lease?
Read More about Leasing Land FundamentalsRecorded September 13, 2019 | Jim Mintert and Michael Langemeier discuss the outlook, market analysis, and marketing considerations for the 2019 crops.
Read More about Fall 2019 Crop Outlook: Following USDA’s September Crop Production ReportExamining the competitiveness of crop production in different regions of the world is often difficult due to lack of comparable data and agreement regarding what needs to be measured.
Read More about International Differences in Labor Efficiency and ProductivityToday, farms are much more specialized in crops or animals, and many fewer are in both. Has this changed the relative economic importance of crop and animal agriculture in the U.S.?
Read More about The Economic Importance of U.S. Animal AgricultureRecorded August 21, 2019 | The panelists provided updated farmland value and cash rent information from the 2019 Purdue Land Value Survey.
Read More about Indiana Farmland Values & Rental Rates – 2019 Survey ResultsAssessing management skills is an important part of benchmarking farm performance and figuring out where improvements may be needed.
Read More about Assessment of Management SkillsFrom the low point in 2014, beef cow numbers have expanded by nine percent. Total cow numbers including dairy cows are up seven percent.
Read More about Beef Herd Expansion Near End?Corn price futures for the December 2019 contract increased from $3.79 per bushel for the week ending May 10 to $4.55 for the week ending June 28. Even though corn futures prices weakened after the release of the June crop acreage repor.
Read More about Impact of Higher Corn Prices on Swine Finishing Feed CostCorn prices have increased since mid-May and are expected to be quite volatile for the rest of the year. Each $0.10 increase in corn price results in an increase in feeding cost of gain of $0.87 per cwt.
Read More about Impact of Higher Corn Prices On Feeding Cost of Gain for Cattle FinishingPork production was up four percent in the first-half this year, but the market did not see about nine percent more hogs coming to market in June.
Read More about Will Pork Producers Have a Profitable Year?