FARM BUSINESS
Cash Rent Hangover - 1 Legacy of 2008 Haunts Cash Renters Thu Aug 19, 2010 06:12 AM CDT
Cash rents never recalibrated after the 2008 commodity price spike. Input costs remain stuck at the second-highest level in history. That means renters shoulder higher outlays and credit lines, but with stagnant or smaller profit potentials.
DTN Retail Fertilizer Trends NH3 on Upward Trajectory Tue Aug 24, 2010 02:54 PM CDT
Few farmers locked in fall prices prior to the rally.
Ag Interest Rate Snapshot Thu Sep 2, 2010 07:40 AM CDT
Track daily moves in farm mortgages and operating credit, based on interest rates supplied by a major farm lender.
MBAg by Adam Erwin It's Test Plot Time Wed Sep 1, 2010 08:29 AM CDT
Intelligence gathered at this year's soybean test plots focused on the non-scientific causes of sudden death syndrome, says DTN's tongue-in-cheek Midwest farmer columnist Adam Erwin.
Ask the Taxman by Andy Biebl What's a User-Friendly Accounting Program? Mon Aug 23, 2010 12:15 PM CDT
CPA Andy Biebl answers readers' questions on user-friendly enterprise accounting systems, charitable trusts and how employer-provided health insurance can reduce payroll taxes.
Recently I reported that the permanent farm disaster aid program made princes and paupers out of farmers in states struck by farm revenue losses when it first launched for the 2008 crop last January. SURE, the Supplemental Revenue Assistance program, rewarded some growers with maximum $100,000 payments while others with equally legitimate losses collected zero because of technical glitches.
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Cash Rent on a Binge 8/20 9:58AM
The hangover of 2008's commodity price binge remains with us, even though the party of $13 wheat and $8 corn is long gone. That was the thrust of this week's DTN staff series, "The Cash Rent Hangover," and it's worth a little more discussion about what farmers can do about it now that 2011's cash rent negotiation season is gearing up.
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Redefining Farm Size 8/16 3:49PM
A decade ago, a 10,000-acre farm was considered "big." But as DTN South America Correspondent Kieran Gartlan reported in his "South America Calling" blog last week, Brazil now boasts corporate megafarms that would dwarf the biggest of the U.S.
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Some farmers in the Upper Midwest don't remember they experienced a disaster in 2010, but in many cases growers received the maximum $100,000 SURE disaster payments anyway, thanks largely to an all-time record drop between spring futures prices and fall harvest.
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Ask The Taxman
Ask the Taxman by Andy Biebl What's a User-Friendly Accounting Program? 8/23 12:10PM
CPA Andy Biebl answers readers' questions on user-friendly enterprise accounting systems, charitable trusts and how employer-provided health insurance can reduce payroll taxes.
MBAg
MBAg by Adam Erwin It's Test Plot Time 9/1 8:25AM
Intelligence gathered at this year's soybean test plots focused on the non-scientific causes of sudden death syndrome, says DTN's tongue-in-cheek Midwest farmer columnist Adam Erwin.
By The Numbers
Klinefelter: By the Numbers Benchmark Your Performance 8/26 11:25AM
Compare yourself to top-tier peers -- not the average -- to tweak your farm's financials. In ag, it's not unusual for the top 20 percent to make respectable money when the bottom 20 percent lose it.