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Finances

Top Farmer Conference 2019

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

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Assessing Financial Management Skills

Utilizing key performance indicators is an important ingredient in creating an environment that stresses continuous improvement.

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2019 Purdue Crop Cost & Return Guide

The 2019 Purdue Crop Cost and Return Guide presents cost and return information for low, average, and high productivity soils. The discussion in this paper will focus on the estimates for average productivity soil.

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Using Stress Testing to Examine the Impact of an Increase in Interest Rates

Stress testing can be an extremely useful tool when evaluating strategies for dealing with lower prices, higher costs, asset purchases, and changes in loan terms.

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Exploring Changes in the Current Ratio from 2006 to 2017

Data from three farm management associations and USDA-ERS to further explore trends in the current ratio.

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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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Financial Vulnerability in the Current Downturn: A Stress Test of Midwestern Corn-Soybean Farms

The agricultural sector is facing uncertainty from many directions. These include global supply and demand uncertainties, evolving biofuels policies, trade uncertainties, exchange rates, interest rates, and geopolitical conflicts, among others.

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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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2017 Gross Revenue Scenarios for Soybeans

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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