Price Risk Always Exists, Even in a Bull Market

Death and …

Wheat Alternatives: Maximizing Profitability in a Tough Market

Managing Through Tough Times

Calculating Equitable Crop Share Leases for Rice in the Mid-South

Fertilizer Prices: What Can We Expect in 2025?

Short-term Heating Fuel Decisions Facing Commercial Poultry Growers 

Variety Selection Resources

After Hurricane Helene: How to claim timber casualty losses and defer taxes on salvage timber sales

Good Farm Management Starts with Good Records

What to Bring to Your Accountant

Business Structure Basics

H-2A Wage Violations Against Workers Hired by Farm Labor Contractors

Benefits of Debt Consolidation to Improve Short-Term Liquidity

Upcoming Deadline: Beneficial Ownership Information 

The Long Term Economic Struggles of Southern Peanut Farmers

Profitability According to Farmers

Census of Agriculture Production Expenses for Southern States

Addressing the Gap in Participation Between Whole Farm Revenue Protection and Other MPCI Products

The Long Term Economic Struggles of Southern Cotton Farmers

2024 Agricultural Lending Condition Update

When is an Hour of Operator Labor, Not Just an Hour of Operator Labor?

Preparing For Your Preparer

Increase in PRF Adoption in the Southern Region

Contract Broilers Growers Could See Changes in Their Pay Arrangements

Empowering the Next Generation: The Perks of Paying Your Farm Kids

Lower Interest Rates Create Opportunities for Managing Debt on the Farm

Irrigation Water Pumping Costs in the Mid-South

Are the Pre-Season Polls (Crop Production Reports) Accurate?

Can I deduct timber loss from natural disasters?

Farmers’ Internet Access Improving but Still Lacking

Commodity Program Payment Limits, Farm Entity Creation, and Implications for the Next Farm Bill

Digging into Dirt: Southern States Adoption of No-Till and Reduced Tillage Practices 

Hiring H-2A Workers through Farm Labor Contracts

Using Risk Preference to Inform Crop Insurance Decision-Making

The Disparity Between Crop Prices Received and Input Prices Paid

Estate Transition Planning

Liquidity and Working Capital a Priority

Incorporating Conservation Practices into Leases

Farmland Value Trends in South

Building Equity

Understand the Implications of a Price Slide When Buying and Selling Cattle

Management and Marketing Implications of Deforestation-Free Soybeans in the Southern Region

Cover-crop Acres up in Texas, Stagnant Across Rest of the South

New Poultry Contracting Regulation’s Potential Effects on Broiler Growers

The Importance of Rented Cropland to Mid-South Agriculture

Will Interest Rates Decrease in 2024?

The Costs and Benefits of Mechanization: A Look at the Dairy Sector

2024 Prospective Plantings for Southern Ag Today States

Tax Considerations of Income and Expenses from Nontimber Forest Products

Census Reveals Tobacco Farms Disappearing from Southern Agriculture

Planting Date: The Need for Speed

Tax Reporting for Crop Insurance

Reforming the H-2A Guest Farmworker Visa Program: Sectoral Coverage Expansion and Workers’ Path to Permanent Residency

Using the Share Rent Equivalent Model to Determine Farmland Value

Dairy Revenue Protection Historical Performance for Component Price

What is the TN Visa Program?

Farming to Breakeven in 2024

Foreign Investment in U.S. Agricultural Land: Leasing vs. Owning

Cotton Crop Insurance: Unveiling Regional Differences in Projected and Harvest Prices

Cotton Crop Insurance: Regional Differences in Sales Closing Dates and Cancellation Dates

Financial Ratios to Consider for Measuring Financial Resiliency of Your Farm

What Should I Do With My Heifers?

Look Out Overhead

Exploring Diverse Crop Insurance Options for Cotton Producers

Two Key Productivity Measures with Profit Implications for Cow-calf Operations

Will Irrigated Soybean Area Continue to Expand in Eastern Arkansas?

Comparing Liquified Propane to Natural Gas for Heating Fuel Cost Management in Poultry

Historic Research Yields Modern Solutions

The Economics of Artificial Insemination

Estimate and Manage Your Largest Cost as a Cow-calf Operator

South-Wide Timber Market: Pine Sawtimber Prices Stabilize as Pulpwood Prices Continued to Decline 

Crop Insurance as a Safety Net for Operating Loan Obligations

Sectoral and Regional Concentration of H-2A Patronage

Capital Recovery Costs: An Important Component of Enterprise Budgeting

Dairy Revenue Protection Historical Performance for Class Price

Which is more profitable for producers, Single-Species or Multi-Species Cover Crops?

Can I Afford to Buy a Farm? 

2023 Land Values and Buyer Motivations

2023 Agricultural Lending Condition Update

Files for the Farm Business

The Federal Funds Rate Impact on Agricultural Lending

Effect of Interest Rates on Beef Cow Bid Price

The Rise of Irrigated Soybeans in Arkansas  

The Cost of Money and Commercial Poultry Growing

Bermuda Grass Hay Nutrient Removal

Forage Costs of Production and Breakeven Curves

Mid-Year Review and Planning

Southern Timber Prices Weakened 

New Rules for the Calculation of H-2A Workers’ Wages

The South as the Nation’s Primary Regional Employer of H-2A Labor

When is the “Best” Time to Buy Farm Diesel?

Our Most Read Articles for 2022-2023

Current Non-Real Estate Farm Debt

Up-Side-Down Yields? 

Prevented Planting and APH Reductions After Planting a Second Crop

Foreign Investment in Agricultural Land

Economic Uncertainty and Ways to Prepare for the Worst

Mobile Apps in Farm Management

The Five Types of Risk in Agriculture

Benchmarking

Managing Price Risk for Cow-Calf Producers

Days Suitable for Planting Rice in Arkansas

Wheat Straw Nutrient Removal

Loan Amortization

Projecting Your Cost of Production and Combating Higher Costs in 2023

Do I need to pay the Net Income Tax on my timber income?

Social and Business Implications of the 2023 Increase in Adverse Effect Wage Rates

Outcomes of Chapter 12 Bankruptcy Fillings

Financial State of Chapter 12 Bankruptcy Filings

Chapter 12 Bankruptcy as an Option to Relieve Financial Distress

Bankruptcy as an Option to Relieve Financial Distress

Income Averaging: An underutilized tax management strategy available to farms and commercial fisherman

Cotton Crop Insurance to Protect Against Revenue Losses: Select Harvest Price Exclusion or Not?

Managing for Foundation Traits in Beef Cows

Summary of High Avian Influenza in 2022

What’s a 1099? Do I Need to File?

Will Hemp Production Fare Any Better in 2023?

Prevented Planting

Enterprise Budgeting

Current Non-Real Estate Farm Debt

Fall vs. Spring Application of Broiler Litter

Using Seasonal Precipitation Outlook Maps in PRF Planning

What Should We Expect for Farm Loan Interest Rates in 2022 & 2023?

Year-End Tax Preparations & Management

Loan Packaging Terms for Beginning Minority Farmers Under More Objective Lender’s Loan Evaluation Models

Adding Value to Feeder Calves

Short-Term Contingency Plans for Southern Producers

Carbon Program Opportunities for Woodland Owners in the Southeast

Peer Advisory Groups

Cover Crop Seed Availability Hinders Cover Crop Adoption by Agricultural Producers

Economic vs. Tax Depreciation: Understanding Which to Use for Determining Farm Profitability

Farmland Leasing for Young and Beginning Operators

Economic Culling Criteria

Producers have Significantly Increased the use of LRP

Cover Crops and Risk

Supply Seasonality of Specialty Crops in the United States

Profitability of Cover Crops

Estimating the Cost of a Grain Bagging System

Current Non-Real Estate Farm Debt

Careful on the Curves

Influential Expectations

Can Solar Panels Improve Contract Farm Profitability?

To Irrigate or Not to Irrigate?

Inflation Control, Farm Interest Rates, and Farmland Values

Increased Participation in Weather-Related Crop Insurance Program

Inflation and Interest Rates

Inflation and Farm Prices

Potential Cost Savings of Multiple Inlet Rice Irrigation

Prospects for Retained Ownership in a High Input Cost Environment

The Value of Proper Soil pH

Extension Budgets and Budget Tools

Examining the Used Combine Market

On-Farm Cost of Contracting High Path Avian Influenza in a Commercial Broiler Flock

Too Many Dollars Chasing Too Few Goods

The Russia/Ukraine Conflict and Farm Input Markets

Crop Returns Comparison

Flex Leases for Crop Producers

How much will the cost of custom operations go up this year?

Tax Tips for Forest Landowners

Alternate FSA’s Lending Programs for Beginning Minority Farmers

What is the Current Nutrient Value of Broiler Litter?

Relative Price of Nitrogen

Financial Impacts of Higher Fertilizer

The Perfect Fertilizer Storm

Hemp Review and Outlook

Flood Impact Estimates on Cropland Using Satellite Imagery

Southern Timber Market Update

Getting to Know FLOID

Coping with Delayed H-2A Worker Arrivals During the Pandemic

Time to Meet with Your Tax Professional

A Hot Market for Ag Land

Inputs Up Sharply; Makes Planning More Important Than Ever

2020 Net Farm Income

A View of Cash Rents

Cost-Plus Pricing?

Revenue Protection Dominates Crop Insurance Coverage

Adopting Farm Management Practices for Carbon Credit Payments?