Many agricultural producers purchased capital items the past few years and some used borrowed funds to finance the purchase. The principal payments on those term loans are paid from net farm income. This paper discusses the sensitivity of farm loan repayment capacity to changes in the gross...

The Purdue Farm Financial Analysis Spreadsheet originally introduced in 1998 has been updated to include the additional financial measures recommended by the Farm Financial Standards Council; EBITDA (Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization), working capital to gross...

Purpose: Precision technologies have been available at the farm level for decades. Some technologies have been readily adopted, while the adoption of other technologies has been slower. The purpose of this study is to examine the factors influencing farmers' time-to-adoption decisions as...

Agricultural conservation systems consist of a myriad of conservation practices. The mix and intensity of conservation practices adopted can benefit farmers and affect the entire production system in addition to soil and water conservation. The purpose of this study is to examine and analyze...

This paper examined sustained competitive advantage for a sample of 377 Kansas Farm Management Association farms with continuous data from 1988-2007. Technical, allocative, scale and overall efficiency indices were calculated for each farm and year. Approximately 30 percent of the farms...

It is widely accepted that net farmincome reported on an accrual-adjustedincome statement is a moreappropriate profitability measurethan net farm income reported onSchedule F of the federal tax return,which is prepared using cash basisaccounting. However, a commonpractice among agricultural...

Harsh and inaccurately forecasted economic conditions placed stresses on the Farm Credit System (FCS) and caused the organization to incur losses beginning in the mid-1980s. In recent years, the FCS has been neither more nor less able to avoid problem farm loans than commercial banks. But,...