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Improving Your Crop Marketing Skills

The slidedeck presented by the Center’s James Mintert and Nathan Thompson during the crop marketing presentation at our Crop Marketing & Farm Finance Workshops. The session focus was on learning about your local basis patterns and how you can take advantage of that knowledge to improve profitability on your farming operation and reduce risk.

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2020-01 Ag Outlook

Agribusiness Council of Indiana presentation by James Mintert.

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Ag Outlook: Looking Beyond the 2020 Crop Year

Top Farmer 2020 slidedeck presentation by Chad Hart, Associate Professor of Economics, Iowa State University. Examine the current outlook for corn and soybeans, but also take a longer view of what’s ahead for the U.S. ag economy and the management implications for the next several years.

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2020 Ag Outlook

Recorded December 19, 2019 | Michael Langemeier and Jim Mintert provide an overview of key supply and demand drivers for corn and soybeans, examines basis patterns and possible storage returns, provides updated 2020 crop budget projections, and takes a first look at pricing opportunities for the 2020 corn and soybean crops.

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Food Price Inflation is on the Rise Globally but Steady at Home

By Jayson Lusk | It has been more than two years since prices rose at this pace. The recent global food price spike is primarily caused by rising meat prices, which have increased more than 10% in each of the last two moths relative to the same months in 2018.

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2020 Corn Price Outlook

By James Mintert & Mindy Mallory | An early look at crop budgets for 2020 indicate a shift back towards corn is likely, suggesting that we will push U.S. corn acreage back above 90 million acres. Combined with a return to trend line yields for 2020 this implies a substantial boost to U.S. and world corn supplies is likely, pushing the corn carryover up substantially and putting pressure on prices.

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What Do Farmers Have to Say About the Ag Economy?

2019 Ag Policy Forum, hosted by the Indiana Soybean Alliance & Indiana Corn Growers Association in Noblesville, Indiana, presentation by James Mintert.

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Crop Marketing & Farm Finance Workshops

Choose from 3 Indiana locations in February and March 2020 | Take part in a free workshop focused on helping improve farm profitability in 2020. Each workshop provides farmers an opportunity to improve both their crop marketing and financial management skill sets.

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Fall 2019 Crop Outlook: Following USDA’s September Crop Production Report

Recorded September 13, 2019 | Jim Mintert and Michael Langemeier discuss the outlook, market analysis, and marketing considerations for the 2019 crops.

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Indiana Farmland Values & Rental Rates – 2019 Survey Results

Recorded August 21, 2019 | The panelists provided updated farmland value and cash rent information from the 2019 Purdue Land Value Survey.

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