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General Farm Management & Strategy
Risk management involves optimizing expected returns given the risks involved.
Read MoreRecorded June 17, 2019 | Purdue agricultural economists Chris Hurt, Michael Langemeier, and James Mintert provide an updated corn and soybean price outlook, which includes information from USDA’s Crop Progress report.
Read MoreThe rates reported in this publication were compiled from questionnaires received from farmers, farm owners, farm custom operators, and professional farm managers in Indiana.
Read MoreWhen 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.
Read MoreRecorded June 6, 2019 | As a follow-up to their previous webinar, Purdue agricultural economists James Mintert and Michael Langemeier analyze the potential returns from taking the Prevented Planting option for corn and compare it to potential returns from delayed planting of both corn and soybeans, under a couple of different scenarios.
Read MoreAs farms continue to grow, relationship management and leadership skills will become increasingly important.
Read MoreSoybean storage returns are examined in this article. The method of measuring those returns is similar to corn. Please read the corn storage return article in this publication for that information. One difference is that the harvest price for soybeans was assumed to be the cash prices in the first two weeks of October, while the corn harvest price was assumed to be the last two weeks of October.
Read MoreSmall businesses may sometime face extremely difficult situations that can jeopardize survival. In this article we report on some of the characteristics of firms that have survived a natural disaster. The in- tent is to illustrate management decisions that can assistant any business in getting through the trauma.
Read MoreThe United States economy is at capacity, with an unemployment rate near 50-year lows. In the past such low unemployment resulted in rising inflation. In our time, though, the inflation rate has remained near 2%. It has not increased. So, “Where’s the inflation?”
Read MoreRecorded May 23, 2019 | Purdue agricultural economists James Mintert and Michael Langemeier join Purdue agronomists, Bob Nielsen and Shaun Casteel to discuss crop insurance alternatives as well as corn and soybean agronomic management considerations.
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