finance

The Agricultural and Food Policy Center (AFPC) at Texas A&M University and the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) at the University of Missouri recently published their Representative Farms Economic Outlook for December 2010. This baseline report offers an assessment of farms, crops and their financial outlook.

Feed grain producers across the nation should increase the financial strength of their operators over the next five years, helped by strong commodity prices. Farms that have been in marginal or poor financial position in the last several years because of lower grain prices should recover and climb into stronger financial positions.

Some highlights include:

SwineCast 0406 Show Notes:

• The Morrison Group reviews economy and credit issues, topics from the recent Pigski conference
• Link to Kent Bang's ppt presentation
• Link to Steve Meyer's ppt presentation

SwineCast 0359c Show Notes:

• Swine Forecast 2009, the first virtual international economics and production seminar features Karol Aure-Flynn of Rabobank International reviewing international financin.  Link to full powerpoint presentation with audio.

Mark Greenwood
March 2008 

It is not getting any better – The losses are continuing in the swine industry. This past month feed prices kept going up while hog prices improved some but not near enough. Losses in the open market are still close to $40 a head and everyone keeps wondering when will it get better and what do prices have to get to before we start getting profitable? Well, the first thing we need to do is to somehow get supply reduced. The last cold storage report shows that we have an abundant supply of product. Even though exports have been very good we need to reduce supply to get any significant improvement in prices.

Dr. Dennis DiPietre, economist, provides an outlook on production costs and how producers can prioritize various input costs in order to maintain profit levels.

The player allows you to jump to a specific slide by using the slide list just below the video of Dennis DiPietre.

SwineCast 0201 Show Notes:

• At the Pork Managers Conference in Destin, Florida: 1) Conversations with Sarah Fogleman from Kansas State & Mark Greenwood with AgStar Financial Services and their presentation on building a management team and preparing for transition and 2) Economist Abner Womack from the University of Missouri talking ethanol and feed prices.<

SwineCast 0184 Show notes:

• Forum at Commodity Classic with the Presidents of the National Corn Growers, the National Association of Wheat Growers, and the American Soybean Association
• Interview on agro-terrorism with Paul Rossito with the Western Institute of Food Safety and Security