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Crop Decisions

Costs and Returns

• Five options offered for 2002 Farm Bill -- September 2002
• Exploring Agriculture’s New Frontier -- July 2002
• 2002 Farm Bill Offers Opportunity to Update Acres and Yields -- May 2002
• This is not your father’s ol’-farm-bill! -- May 2002
• 2002 Crop insurance update - Results from 2001 -- January 2002
• Gross margin insurance for hog producers -- December 2001
• Just the check please -- June 2001
• GMOs and food safety -- August 2000
• Freedom to Farm: An agricultural price response experiment -- What have we learned in four years? -- July 2000
• Frequently asked questions regarding the production of transgenic crops -- April 2000
• Do the 1999 government farm payments offset reduced prices? -- December 1999
• Changes in marketing loan repayment alternatives -- October 1999
• Balage: A method of increasing usable forage value per acre -- August 1999
• Policy dilemma of the current farm downturn -- April 1999
• Controlling weed management costs -- February 1999
• Making the most of soil nutrient dollars -- February 1999
• Reasonable choices for tough times -- February 1999
• Tips for decreasing production costs -- February 1999
• Conservation Reserve Program -- 18th sign-up -- November 1998
• Concerns about the 1996 Farm Bill -- November 1998
• Fine tuning Freedom to Farm -- November 1998
• Marketing loans add a new dimension to marketing the 1998 crop -- October 1998
• Actual production history affects risk coverage -- March 1998
• Small square or large round bales? -- June 1998
• Valuing manure for crop production -- December 1996

Markets

• Pre-harvest new-crop corn and soybean pricing strategies show incentives for using options markets -- September 2002
• Are we better off without government stocks overhanging the market? -- September 2002
• Are we courting disaster? -- February 2002

Machinery

Other

• Key Supreme Court ruling on plant patents -- March 2002
• Low prices don't move bargain hunters to scoop up excess grain --  June 2000
• Crop farming -- A high risk business -- November 1996
• Availability and market penetration of GMO corn and soybeans -- November 1999
• Potential market for non-GMO corn and soybeans -- November 1999
• Transportation issues of GMOs -- November 1999
• Will an increased non-GMO demand harm the GMO market for corn and soybeans? -- November 1999
• Is GMO or non-GMO more profitable -- a look at 1998 -- October 1999
• Genetically modified crops: guidelines for producers -- September 1999
• Cargill's acquisition of Continental Grain's grain merchandizing business -- March 1999
• The production and marketing of value-added grains -- December 1997
• Opportunities in value-added grains -- November 1997

Livestock Decisions

Costs and Returns

• Profiting from the cattle cycle: alternative cow herd investment strategies -- May 2001
• Foot–and-mouth-disease update and implications -- April 2001
• Retained ownership strategies for cow-calf producers -- October 2000
• Swine manure management practices -- September 1998
• Critical success factors for dairy expansion -- July 1998
• Payoff from new swine technologies -- April 1998
• Developing a pork production strategy -- April 1998
• Can family farmers compete in pork production? -- March 1998
• Why farmers quit producing pork -- January 1998
• Options for backgrounding calves -- December 1997
• Long run planning prices for pork producers -- December 1997
• Positioning your pork enterprise in a dynamic industry -- July 1997
• The dairy expansion decision -- June 1997
• What affects cattle feeding profitability -- February 1997
• Cattle pricing strategies -- January 1997
• Pricing pigs -- January 1997

Markets

• Live cattle futures and options: How have they done? Part 2 -- October 2000
• Live cattle futures and options: How have they done? Part 1 -- September 2000

Other

• Country of origin labeling guidelines -- October 2002
• Beef quality assurance “down under” -- August 2002
• ISO 9001-2000 - a brief discussion -- July 2001
• The new U.S. meat industry -- July 2001
• The Iowa Quality Beef Supply Network -- Should I Invest? -- December 1999
• The changing pork industry structure -- October 1998
• Long-term marketing contracts with packers -- A journey through the downside -- September 1998
• Texas cattle feeders take on Oprah Winfrey -- testing the Veggie Libel Law -- August 1998
• Competition in pork processing -- June 1998
• Iowa's pork processing industry -- May 1998
• Evaluating packer contracts -- May 1998
• Opportunities for Iowa pork exports -- February 1998
• What rural Iowans think about hogs -- January 1998
• Pork industry changes affecting farmers/agribusinesses -- January 1998
• Hoops for swine: A good choice for beginning farmers? -- June 1997
• Northern Plains Premium Beef Cooperative -- Should I Join? -- March 1997
• Changes in how pork is produced -- February 1997

Wholefarm Decisions

Costs and Returns

• Taking a long look at short energy supplies -- March 2001

• The farm situation: What lies ahead? -- May 2000

• The farm situation: Surviving tough times -- March 2000

• Iowa farmers concerned about increasing fuel prices -- March 2000

• The farm situation: Hunkering down syndrome -- January 2000

• Taking a second off-farm job -- October 1999
• Different concept for young farmer entry -- September 1999
• Managing the farm business during a period of rapid change --November 1998
• Maintaining profitability in the year ahead -- August 1998
• Farming with my neighbor -- February 1998
• Developing a risk management plan -- November 1997
• What is the best way to measure farm income -- February 1997

Farmland Leasing

• Comparing cash rental rates to net returns to land -- April 2000
  

Farmland Values

Financial

• Changes in Iowa farm financial performance and structure (1997–2001) -- November 2001

• Current and projected farm financial conditions -- February 2000

• Agricultural lender survey -- April 1999
• Understanding the current farm economic situation -- September 1999
• Farm economy -- Looking at the numbers -- July 1999
• Survivability and competitiveness of Iowa's commercial farm businesses -- April 1999
• Negotiating with creditors -- February 1999

Legal and Taxes

• Tax Planning and Management Considerations for Farmers in 2002 -- December 2002

• Changing CCC Loan Reporting -- April 2002

• Final Regulations on Income Averaging for Farmers -- February 2002

• Handling Gains and Losses on Cooperative Stock -- February 2002

• Handling joint tenancies at death -- January 2002
• Applying the New Capital Gains Rules -- January 2002

• Care needed to assure hedging result -- September 2001

• Debt in excess of basis -- August 2001
• Calculating solvency: A new development -- August 2001

• Repeal of Federal Estate Tax: A good idea or a mistake? -- April 2001

• More on Mizell -- February 2001
• Repealing the rule against perpetuities -- August 2000

• Production contracts and liens -- June 1999
• Tax Issues Facing Farm Families -- February 1999
• Reporting Government Payments for Tax Purposes -- December 1998
• Omnibus Spending Bill -- December 1998
• Mediation in Iowa -- Under Chapters 654A, B, & C -- October 1998
• Iowa State Income Tax Treatment of Long-term Capital Gains Income --H.F. 2513 -- August 1998
• Confinement livestock legislation -- July 1998
• Farmer networking law -- Chapter 10 of the Iowa Code -- July 1998
• Networking entities -- May 1998
• Goodell et al. V. Humboldt County -- March 1998
• Capital Gains Proposals -- June 1997
• Federal Estate and Gift Tax Reform -- May 1997
• Deferring Taxable Income -- How Important? -- December 1996

Business Transfer Planning

Other

• Are cost-increasing production practices in agriculture’s future? -- October 2002

• Are exports a dependable base for farm prosperity? -- August 2002

• Will the New Farm Bill Raise Cash Rents? -- July 2002
• Brazil and Iowa soybean production -- A cost comparison -- December 2001

• Brazil’s soybean production -- Production inputs -- October 2001

• The next farm bill: Is it time for conservation payments? -- August 2001

• U.S. Farm policy and the WTO -- June 2001
• How many farmers will we “need”? - January 2001
• Brazilian soybeans -- Can Iowa farmers compete? - December 2000

• Future directions of China's agricultural production - December 2000

• Brazilian soybeans -- Transportation problems -- November 2000

• Future directions for China's food demand -- November 2000

• Brazilian soybeans -- What is the potential? -- October 2000

• Why worry about changing structure -- September 2000

• Farmers not optimistic about economic outlook -- July 2000
• The internet and the farmer -- June 2000

• Farmers' attitudes about sustainable agriculture -- June 1999
• Contracting with near monopolists -- January 1999
• Information technology on Iowa farms -- October 1998
• Pacific Rim and Iowa agriculture -- March 1998
• The future direction of agriculture -- December 1997
• Changes in Iowa farm structure -- October 1997
• Strategies for high cost feed mills -- September 1997
• How to make country elevators competitive -- August 1997
• Increased farmer grain transportation capacity -- July 1997
• Rail transportation changes and implications for elevators -- June 1997

Value-Added Decisions

Starting Your Business

Marketing Your Product

Operating a Business

Analysis

• A new brand of agriculture? Farmer-owned brands reward innovation -- December 2002

• The rise of ethanol in rural America -- June 2002

• Are consumers buying more private label (or store brand) products? -- June 2002

• Switch to a niche and other options -- May 2001

• Extreme demands - extraordinary products: What's in it for Midwestern agriculture -- February 2001

• Welcome to the new world of agriculture -- May 2000

• Producers face marketing system changes -- May 1999
• The changing face of agriculture -- March 1999