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Beginning
Farmer Center Annual Report for 2004 PDF
file
The Beginning
Farmer and Rancher Land Contract Guarantee Pilot Program Fact Sheet -
View
online PDF file
Farm
Ownership: The Changing of the Guard conference powerpoints (Oct.
2003) -
Farm Succession in Iowa -
Mike Duffy, ISU
Effects of Farm Succession
on Rural Communities - Paul Lasley, ISU
Current Research on
Farm Succession - Andrew Errington, University of Plymouth, UK *We
were saddened to learn that shortly after returning home from the Farm
Ownership Conference Professor Errington unexpectedly passed away.
Factors
of Success of Small Farms and the Relationship Between Financial Success
and Perceived Success - Michael Duffy and Virginie
Nanhou, Iowa State University (Sept. 2002)
PDF
file
Beginning Farmer
Center Annual Report for 2003 PDF
file
Beginning Farmer
Center - The 2002 Beginning Farmer Center overview as presented to the
Legislature.
http://www.extension.iastate.edu/Publications/EDC162C.pdf
So you have inherited
a farm ... An 8-page publication discussing farm inheritance and
options. July 2001
http://www.extension.iastate.edu/Publications/PM1876.pdf
Farm Succession
in Iowa by John Baker, Michael Duffy, and Adrienne
Lamberti. In spring 2000 the Beginning Farmer Center surveyed over 1500 Iowa farmers
to determine how Iowa farmers were planning their retirement. This document
lays out the findings of this survey.
PDF file
Small and Underserved
Farmers by Michael Duffy,
Associate Director and ISU Extension Economist, 9/01
PDF file
Testimony for
US Senate Field Hearings by Michael
Duffy, Associate
Director of Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture: Professor-in-Charge,
Iowa State Beginning Farmer Center, Extension Economist, Iowa State University,
Ames, IA March 24, 2001
PDF file
A Farm Bill to Protect
People, Not Commodities by Michael
Duffy, Associate Director and ISU Extension Economist, 9/01
PDF
file
1/7/98 Pork Producers ICN
Handouts
PDF file part
1 PDF file part 2 (both needed)
Farmer/Creditor Mediation
View
on-line
"Managing the Farm
Business in a Period of Rapid Change" by Michael Duffy, Professor of
Economics, ISU 10/98
View on-line
PDF file
"How Small Farms
Compete" by Michael Duffy,
Professor of Economics, ISU 2/98
View on-line
PDF file
"Agricultural
Research: Where Have We Been and Where are We Going" by Michael Duffy, Professor of
Economics, ISU 1/98
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on-line PDF file
"Impact of the
Taxpayer Relief Act on Beginning Farmers" by Neil E. Harl
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"Testimony by Michael Duffy to the National
Commission on Small Farms - Sioux Falls, South Dakota August 22, 1997"
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on-line PDF file
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