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Cash Rents and Contribution Margins

by Frontier Farm Credit Staff Reports | Aug 23, 2024 | The Business of Agriculture,

Farm Credit Services of America (FCSAmerica) and Frontier Farm Credit are co-sponsoring a webinar series, Two Economists and a Lender. Our latest installment featured Agriculture Economic Insights (AEI) co-founders David Widmar and Brent Gloy, and Rod Hartwig, vice president, commercial lending. The webinar recording from August 22 is available. Explore upcoming webinars.

 
 

Cash rents are hard to benchmark and adjust as commodity prices fluctuate. In this webinar, we discussed contribution margins and how they can provide another data point for producers wanting to ground-truth their cash rental rates.

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Cash Rents and Contribution Margins

by Frontier Farm Credit Staff Reports | Aug 23, 2024 | The Business of Agriculture,

Farm Credit Services of America (FCSAmerica) and Frontier Farm Credit are co-sponsoring a webinar series, Two Economists and a Lender. Our latest installment featured Agriculture Economic Insights (AEI) co-founders David Widmar and Brent Gloy, and Rod Hartwig, vice president, commercial lending. The webinar recording from August 22 is available. Explore upcoming webinars.

 
 

Cash rents are hard to benchmark and adjust as commodity prices fluctuate. In this webinar, we discussed contribution margins and how they can provide another data point for producers wanting to ground-truth their cash rental rates.

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September 2024 WASDE

Sep 13, 2024 | The Business of Agriculture

September WASDE: Markets, USDA Largely Align

USDA increased estimated 2024 corn and soybean yields in the September WASDE. Matt Erickson, our economist, says the good-to-excellent condition of this year’s crops points to potential additional bushels.

corn field in early summer

Jun 13, 2024 | The Business of Agriculture

Challenges Ahead for Grain Markets: June WASDE

USDA continues to see a grain market largely driven by high production and stocks and lower demand and use.

Jul 26, 2024 | The Business of Agriculture

Creating, Using and Learning from Decision Trees

Learn how to use the decision tree model to focus on what is important for your business.

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