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  • The Dramatic Change in US Ag Land Price-Rent Ratio
    The ratio of US cropland price to cropland cash rent has nearly doubled since 1998, from 20 to 36. Empirical analysis so far has not identified any statistically significant explanatory factor, so this article’s purpose is to call attention to this dramatic change. Given land’s large share of US farm assets (roughly 80%), it is […]
  • Forecasting US Field Crop Sector Prosperity
    This article presents a model to forecast net return at harvest for the nine field crops that USDA ERS computes an economic cost of production. The model includes last year’s percent net return at harvest, last year’s average return to storing US corn and soybeans, and the ratio of beginning world stocks to last year’s […]

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FARM BUREAU REPORT EXAMINES CATTLE MARKET ISSUES –

As the cattle industry continues to grapple with how the markets reacted after the coronavirus outbreak, a new report unveiled by the American Farm Bureau Federation provides an in-depth examination of the causes of and price implications resulting from extreme market volatility in the cattle industry. (Feedstuffs

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