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Agribusiness

Agribusiness examines the commercial structure surrounding production: cooperatives and elevators, processors and input suppliers, farmland ownership and rental rates, agricultural credit, and consolidation among seed and chemical firms. Analysis explains how each affects a grower's margin. Aimed at farm owners, managers and the lenders and advisers working with them.

Coverage of cooperatives, processors, input suppliers, farmland ownership and agricultural lending, the commercial structure around food production.

Agribusiness

Seven working steps for farm succession planning

With the average U.S. producer at 58.1 years old and most farmland on the edge of a generational transfer, a documented succession process is the difference between a plan and an auction.

Tanya Brooks
Timeline infographic of seven farm succession planning steps
Agribusiness

The economics of drought resilience on ranches

Drought forces ranchers into a documented sequence of costly decisions, depopulate, buy feed, or haul water, and the operations that fare best are those that made resilience investments before the dry year.

Isabel Duarte
Rancher checking a solar-powered stock water tank in dry pasture