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Farmland

Leasing Principles for Cropland

When examining the leasing option, a farm needs to decide, along with the landowner, whether they want to use a cash lease, a crop share lease, or a flexible cash lease.

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Farm Management Tour 2019

In 2019, the Purdue Farm Management Tour visited Huntington & Wabash Counties, Indiana. This year’s Purdue Farm Management Tour information can be found at https://purdue.ag/farmtour!

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Indiana Farmland Values & Rents: Opinions From the Indiana Chapter of Farm Managers & Rural Appraisers From February 2019

These results indicate Indiana’s farmland market has been in a period of relative stability. While markets are seldom perfectly stable, these February expectations are for relatively small future changes at least by historical standards. But there are lots of uncertainties that could change these expectations.

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Top Farmer Conference 2019

January 10, 2020 (Pre-Conference Jan. 9) | West Lafayette, Indiana

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Cash Rents and Farmland Values Remain Under Downward Pressure

Last year at this time, many forecasters indicated the worst of the margin pressure appeared to be behind production agriculture. Farmers had achieved some success in lowering per unit cost of production.

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Flexible Cash Lease Comparisons

Compare the net returns of a crop share arrangement with two flexible cash lease arrangements.

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Comparing Net Returns for Alternative Leasing Arrangements

A west central Indiana case farm is used to illustrate net returns to land derived from crop share, fixed cash rent, and flexible cash lease arrangements.

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Managing Your Farm in Challenging Times​

Recorded August 22, 2018 | Purdue Ag Economists discuss marketing strategies for 2018 corn and soybean crops and provide updated farmland value and cash rent information.

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Farmland Assessment for Property Taxes in the Coming Decade

It’s been three years since the Indiana General Assembly passed and the Governor signed Public Law 249, changing the method used to calculate the base rate of farmland for property tax assessment.

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2018 Indiana Pasture Land, Hay Ground, and On-Farm Grain Storage Rent

Estimates for the current rental value of pastureland, hay ground, and on-farm grain storage in Indiana are often difficult to locate. For the past several years, questions about these items have been included in the Purdue Farmland Value Survey. These tables report the values from the June 2018 survey.

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