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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 […]

Agriculture News

NATIONAL FARM SAFETY WEEK BEGINS –

This month, COUNTRY Financial joins the National Education Center for Agriculture Safety (NECAS) and other organizations across the country to raise awareness of the risks associated with working in agriculture and promoting safe and healthy practices through the harvest season and beyond. (Journal Gazette & Times-Courier)

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WESTERN AG LEADERS ENCOURAGE TRADE IN POST-COVID-19 ENVIRONMENT –

Top agricultural officials from five Western Hemisphere countries – Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Mexico and the U.S. – underscored the importance of maintaining agricultural trade flows during the COVID-19 pandemic following the virtual G-20 Agriculture & Water Ministers Meeting hosted by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on Sept. 12. (Feedstuffs)

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