Crop marketing, and specifically the efficiency of markets, is a topic of much interest and debate in the agricultural industry. This case study examines the effectiveness of a marketing advisory service (MAS) in pricing hard red winter wheat in Kansas. The post-harvest recommendations of this...

Adoption rates of nutrient and pesticide best management practices are investigated across farm types. Using a survey or corn and grain sorghum producers from Kansas, larger family farms are more likely to adopt best management practices aimed at reducing nitrate and pesticide runoff than...

Precision agricultural technologies, such as guidance systems and automatic section controllers, have given farmers the ability to more effectively apply crop inputs such as fertilizer, pesticides, and seed. More efficient use of inputs often can be translated into higher yields and/or lower...

Accurate information on land values is a consequential concern when prices are changing rapidly. This study compares USDA data and sales data from 1971-2011. While the land prices from these series move in similar patterns, there are periods of substantial differences. These periods show a...

Appraisers use puritan sales to estimate the ratio of prices for different types of land. However, puritan sales may be hard to find in areas where parcels contain upland, bottomland, meadow, pasture, irrigation, recreational land, and CRP. This paper uses regression to identify the value of...

With farm income at record, or near record levels, the overall agricultural production sector has fared well. However, in the current economic climate, instability and volatility in certain agricultural input markets caused by the U.S. macro-economy has put increased pressure on some sub-sectors...

This article discusses asset bubbles, the Kansas and Illinois land markets, estimates land values, and develops a land price/earnings ratio. Current land sales data are also examined. Finally, we examine relationships between land values and interest rates, inflation rates, and cash rents....