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General Farm Management & Strategy
Corn and soybean yields for most Indiana producers are higher in 2013 than they were in 2012, but crop prices are lower. A number of producers may also have crop insurance indemnities from 2012 crops which have not yet been reported as income.
Read More about Crop Insurance Indemnities: Some Tax Considerations for 2013A key theme underlying the discussions and presentations at the 2013 Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank Agricultural Symposium — the Shifting Nexus of Global Agriculture — was the uncertainty the industry is facing in many dimensions
Read More about The Business Climate for Agriculture: Positioning for Turbulent TimesPricing silage crops can be much more challenging than pricing grains, since they are not sold as routinely and, therefore, do not have a readily known market price.
Read More about Determining a Value for Corn SilageFarm businesses are facing increasing complexity and uncertainty in today’s turbulent business climate. Farms continue to be family based businesses and are modest size compared too much of the industrial sector, but an increasing number of farms are becoming multi-million dollar gross sales businesses with a sizeable work-force and rapidly increasing financial capital and land resources.
Read More about Strategies for Success in Turbulent Times: Ten Strategic InitiativesThe global food and agribusiness industry is in the midst of major changes – changes in product characteristics, in worldwide distribution and consumption, in technology, in size and structure of firms in the industry, and in geographic location of production and processing.
Read More about Structural Change in Agriculture: Implications for the Farming SectorThe point of scenario analysis is not to predict how the future will unfold, but rather to consider different scenarios that might occur and what the economic environment might look like in these scenarios. Participants then use these situations to consider what strategies their businesses might use were these situations to occur.
Read More about Alternative Futures for Agriculture: A Scenario Analysis ExerciseContinued consolidation and concentration in the agricultural industries has stimulated numerous discussions and debates about the advantages and disadvantages of large vs. small firms and why the general trend/direction of most structural change in agriculture is to larger scale businesses.
Read More about Farm Growth: Venture Analysis and Business ModelsSince 2009, wealth in the U.S. farm sector has surged along with booming farmland values. Similar to nonfarm households, farm enterprises historically have used wealth to support consumption and investments when income fades. During years of low income, farmers tap their existing wealth to finance spending on capital investments such as buildings, vehicles, machinery and other equipment.
Read More about The Wealth Effect in U.S. AgricultureMany are asking whether the current prosperity in farming is sustainable. The answer is not obvious, but the following “what to watch” list might provide a useful perspective to answer this question.
Read More about Is the Current Farm Prosperity Sustainable? What to WatchModerator: Jason Henderson
Vice President and Omaha Branch Executive
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City