Now, more than ever, big swings in crop prices and input costs points toward negotiating some flexibility in cash leases for farmland.
“Volatile” and “uncertain” are two words that might best describe grain prices and input costs for row crop production heading into the 2009 planting season.
With this increased volatility and uncertainty, risk increases […]

Newly updated Enterprise Budgets for 2009 have been completed and posted to the Farm Management Web site of the Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics.

Web site

Updated Enterprise Budgets can be viewed and downloaded from http://aede.osu.edu/Programs/FarmManagement/Budgets/.
Recent changes in fertilizer costs and crop prices have changed the profitability outlook for field crops in Ohio.
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Budgeting helps guide you through your decision-making process as you attempt to commit resources to the most profitable enterprises on the farm.

Higher fuel and nitrogen prices in 2007 have signaled trends that will most likely hold throughout 2008.

Benefits for farm employees vary tremendously from farm to farm and frequently take the place of some wages that might normally be paid to employees in a nonfarm position.

Wages and benefits for farm employees are not only important to the employees, but to the employers as they try to provide fair compensation.

Landowners, prospective buyers, lenders and others involved in agriculture often seek baseline data and trend data with which to base their buy/sell decisions upon.

Lower fuel and nitrogen prices in the last half of 2006 have signaled trends that should hold throughout 2007.
The outlook numbers laid out in this article can be used to formulate budgets for 2007.

Fuel

As of Dec. 12, the Energy Information Administration pegged the average price for West Texas Intermediate Crude Oil at $65.17 […]

Lower fuel and nitrogen prices in the last half of 2006 have signaled trends that should hold throughout 2007.