Stories by Barry Ward

(Barry Ward is the leader of production business management in the Ohio State University Extension’s department of agricultural, environmental and development economics.)

Results of cropland survey are in

Thursday, May 3, 2007 by Barry Ward

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.

Setting your 2007 farm budget by the numbers

Thursday, January 11, 2007 by Barry Ward

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 [...]

Setting your 2007 farm budget by the numbers

Thursday, January 11, 2007 by Barry Ward

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