Top Ten Cash Rent Justifications 

Dave Kohl

This past week I was in Bloomington, Illinois to speak for the sixth time at the Community Bankers Agricultural Conference. This year we had 135 attendees with at least 25 percent of the audience being young bankers with less than five years of experience. We had great discussion in side conversations concerning land values and cash rents. Based upon this, I came up with Dave’s top ten in justifying cash rents that are out of sight!...

USDA And NASA Launch Remote Sensing Partnership 

USDA\NASA

Agriculture Secretary Ann M. Veneman and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Administrator Sean O'Keefe have launched a partnership that...

Brock Online Notes 

Canada Wants U.S. To End Beef Ban

This week Canada called on the United States to end its ban on Canadian beef and cattle imports, arguing there was no scientific justification for maintaining the three-week-old prohibition after nearly 2,000 tests for mad cow disease turned out negative....

Bean Leaf Beetles on Soybeans: Wait for Pod-Fill Stages to Spray 

South Dakota State University

Producers can save money by waiting until soybeans are in the pod-fill stage to spray for bean leaf beetles, South Dakota State University (SDSU) data...

Scout Cornfields for Cutworms 

South Dakota State University

Cutworms are causing widespread damage to corn seedlings and producers should scout their fields now, a South Dakota State University (SDSU) specialist...

NCGA Applauds House Decision to Support WTO Case 

National Corn Growers Association

The National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) applauds the House of Representatives for passing Tuesday H. Res. 252, supporting a case in the World Trade...

USDA Announces Sign-Up For New Crop Disaster Program 

USDA

Agriculture Secretary Ann M. Veneman announced that sign-up for the Crop Disaster Program (CDP) for the 2001 or 2002 crop has begun. The closing date...

Farm Living Expenses Rise 

University of Illinois

Total, noncapital living expenses for Illinois farm families rose an average 2.9% between 2001 and 2002 and are up 4.5% since 2000, according to a University...

Bankers School 

Dave Kohl

I had the opportunity to sit in on Dr. Ed Siefreid’s course on interpreting economic changes. If you get the opportunity to hear him, don’t miss it. He predicted that the Dow would be 10,000 by the year 2000 in 1989....

ASA Reaffirms Support for WTO Biotech Case Against the European Union 

The American Soybean Association

The American Soybean Association (ASA) urges the Bush Administration to continue pressing European leaders to institute science-based approval processes...

Iowa State Scientists Predict Soybean Yields, Content From Satellite Imaging 

Iowa State University College of Agriculture

Iowa State University researchers are using aerial and satellite views of soybean fields to predict the yields, and other crop conditions. Plant Pathologist...

Tax Plan Greatly Benefits Farm Families 

USDA News

Farm families will see significant tax savings following the enactment of President Bush's Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003, according...

Brock Online Notes 

Richard Brock

Senate Signals Fuel Mandate Support

The U.S. Senate signaled its strong support for a bill that would mandate the blending of ethanol into U.S. gasoline nationwide by solidly rejecting two amendments that would have weakened the legislation....

ASA Continues Work to Protect U.S. from Soybean Rust 

The American Soybean Association

Representatives of the American Soybean Association (ASA) held yet another in a series of meetings with the United States Department of Agriculture’s...

The Great Debate! 

By Carrie Heizer and Alicia Morris, Administrative and Graduate Research Assistants

Recently Virginia Tech students enrolled in the Agricultural Financial Management course taught by Dr. David Kohl were asked to participate in an informal discussion regarding Government supports to agriculture. While reviewing trends of agriculture and finance, the class learned that in 2002, government subsidies accounted for approximately 50 percent of total farm income in the U.S. Students were asked to think of arguments both supporting and opposing the controversial issue....