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Cash rent negotiations for 2015 are still in flux in many areas as landowners contemplate $3.80 per bushel for next year’s corn crop and farm tenants seeking to leverage the current weak prices into lower rents. Farm tenants are even … Continue reading

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USDA’s August forecast for the 2014 farm sector economy is more optimistic than the one issued last February. Forecast net cash income for 2014 has been revised upward, due to improved prospects for the value of both crop and livestock … Continue reading

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Federal Reserve contacts report that agricultural conditions continue to soften. The Kansas City Fed notes that farmland price appreciation is moderating from the rapid pace seen in the past few years. Farm-level crop prices fell from a year earlier for … Continue reading

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