As the trade negotiations with China stall, something I heard last summer sounds truer than ever: U.S. tariffs are playing into China's long-term strategy for food security.
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by Katie Micik Dehlinger , Farm Business Editor
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by Lance Woodbury , DTN Farm Business Adviser
Adjustments to business plans should be made sooner rather than later.
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by Katie Micik Dehlinger , Farm Business Editor
In 2018, 37% of Kansas farmers' income came from Market Facilitation Program payments. As the trade conflict with China escalates, rather than resolves, farmers are left to wonder whether the government will intervene again and what form that will take.
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by Lance Woodbury , DTN Farm Business Adviser
Almost every expansion of acreage, new business enterprise or new investment has challenges and requires more management skills and knowledge. Your intuition is valuable, but so is the advice and counsel of people who have been through similar trials.
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by Lori Culler , DTN Farm Business Adviser
Here are five practices you can implement with relatively low cost and investment of time to help keep an employee engaged.
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by Elizabeth Williams , DTN Special Correspondent
Here are some tips on what farmers coping with disasters should discuss with their lenders.
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by Lori Culler , DTN Farm Business Adviser
Engaging employees needs more than a scattershot approach. If some employees are actively disengaged, a methodical approach would be better. Here are six questions you can ask employees to get feedback and to gain a sense of each one's engagement to the business.
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by Katie Micik Dehlinger , Farm Business Editor
Rising costs aren't the only uncertainty complicating farmers' health care choices. The future of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare, is once again under legal challenge, and new types of plans are beginning to proliferate.
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by Katie Micik Dehlinger , Farm Business Editor
While commercial banks and Farm Credit system lenders hold nearly equal shares of farm debt, banks hold more non-real estate debt, exposing them to greater risks if the farm economy continues to flounder.
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by Katie Micik Dehlinger , Farm Business Editor
Predicting the future is, inherently, unpredictable. But late last year, Virginia Tech professor emeritus David Kohl shared what's on his radar for 2019.
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by Katie Micik Dehlinger , Farm Business Editor
Iowa State University's Land Value Survey shows average farmland prices declined 0.8% to $7,264 per acre from 2017 to 2018. While it's the fourth decline in five years, farmland values are still higher than they were a decade ago.
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by Katie Micik Dehlinger , Farm Business Editor
Over the past month, I've attended a number of agricultural conferences, and one theme connected all of them: savvy financial management is the key to not only making it through this down cycle in agriculture, but making sure your business thrives well into the future.
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by Katie Micik Dehlinger , Farm Business Editor
USDA began mailing safety net payments for the 2017 crop earlier this month, but total ARC and PLC payments are expected to be about half the size of the 2016 payout. Economists caution that payments for the 2018 crop, which farmers are currently busy harvesting, could be...
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by Katie Micik Dehlinger , Farm Business Editor
As harvest plows forward and farmers stuff their bins with soybeans, some are starting to turn their thoughts to what to plant next year. If you're considering increasing corn acres, you may want to start thinking about marketing opportunities now.
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by Katie Micik Dehlinger , Farm Business Editor
But with higher input price forecasts for 2019 and trade disputes casting a cloud over commodity prices, cost cutting is about to get harder as experts encourage farmers to a field-by-field look at their land expenses.
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Demand for marketing assistance loans through USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation is the highest in a decade, and experts think even more farmers will turn to them this fall despite out-of-date loan rates and rising interest costs.
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by Katie Micik Dehlinger , Farm Business Editor
Economist have long argued that free trade results in numerous advantages, but after more than 200 years of theory and practical application, economists still haven't convinced consumers it's best policy. A Princeton professor explains why he thinks it's the biggest failing of...
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The U.S. moved forward with $34 billion worth of tariffs on Friday, and Beijing responded in kind. We roundup reaction from across the agricultural sector.
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by Katie Micik Dehlinger , Farm Business Editor
A letter landed in farmland owners' mailboxes earlier this month offering quick cash to buy their land. While it bore many signatures of a scam, the man who signed the letter says he's a real estate wholesaler, looking to identify distressed properties that could benefit from a...
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by Katie Micik Dehlinger , Farm Business Editor
If the U.S. follows through with its proposal to implement $50 billion of tariffs on Chinese goods and China retaliates, it could damage far more than just agricultural exports. It could create major disruptions in currency markets.
Markets
- Market Matters Blog by DTN Staff
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- Production Blog by Pam Smith
- Ethanol Blog by DTN Staff
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- South America Calling by DTN Staff
- An Urban's Rural View by Urban Lehner
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- Editors' Notebook by Greg D.Horstmeier