In areas where urban development is threatening quality farmland, zoning policies that encourage development on low productivity land have a significant influence on market forces, resulting in upward pressure on the prices of low productivity farmland. This helps identify potential permanent...

An agricultural survey to assess program needs of farmers in Riverside and San Bernardino counties was conducted in 2004. Demographics, production systems, farm management methods, and clientele issues and concerns were analyzed and program needs evaluated.

A ten-year linear programming model of a representative dryland crop farm in North Central Kansas is used to develop and illustrate procedures for analyzing economic impacts of the elimination of one or more pesticides on an individual farm. Atrazine is used as an example pesticide because of...

In a series of treaties from 1871 to 1876, Canadian prairie aboriginal claims were extinguished and Indian First Nations were confined to reserves scattered throughout the prairies. In recent years, a number of First Nation claims have been brought forward based on unfair or illegal surrender or...

Increased acreage planting flexibility granted through the last three farm bills has allowed agricultural producers to make production choices without government programs driving their decisions. Planted acre data for program crops in seven Texas regions is used to describe producers’...

Field studies were conducted on a farm in northwest Wyoming to compare variable-rate fertilization (VRF) with uniformrate fertilization (URF) of sugar beets. Results from this study failed to show an economic advantage from VRF compared to URF, implying producers should be very cautious to adopt...

Rural appraisers often use Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) analysis to value timber and timberland. Land expectation value (LEV) is a standard DCF analysis technique that is applied to many timberland situations. LEV is used to calculate the value of bare land in perpetual timber production and is...

An analysis of Canadian farmland risk and return on investment shows that a Farmland Mutual Fund (FMF) would have been a reasonably good investment over the past 15 years. Investors at the very low or very high end of risk spectrum would not include FMF in their portfolios, Financial gains from...

Farmers are expanding their use of the internet, including e-commerce. Larger, younger, and better educated farmers are leading the charge. This article identifies factors that influence how likely particular markets are to form on the internet and identifies example internet and identifies...