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Farm Risk Management: Recommended Data

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Farm Income Data. Farm income forecasts, updated regularly, and farm income estimates, released once a year.

Farm Balance Sheet Data. Data on assets, debt, and equity, where equity equals assets minus debt, and are used to assess wealth in the farm sector.

Commodity Costs and Returns Data. Data and analyses for major field crop and livestock enterprises each year since 1975.

Season-Average Price Forecasts. Three Excel spreadsheet models that use futures prices to forecast the U.S. season-average price and counter-cyclical payment rate for corn, soybeans, and wheat. Users can view the model forecasts or create their own forecast by inserting different values for futures prices, basis values, or marketing weights.

 

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Updated date: August 12, 2009