Suggested methods to reduce farm financial stress have included interest rate buy-downs and debt forgiveness. This study develops a method to estimate the proportion of individual farm financial stress attributable to an income problem, a leverage problem, and an interest rate problem. Of the...

Ordinary least squares is used to test hypotheses about relationships between expected profit and farm characteristics. Results indicate that expected profit may be enhanced by increasing farm size, lease or rental of intermediate and long-term assets, using production and financial inputs...