What Is The Farm Credit System?

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Audio: What Is The Farm Credit System? Jack Shuler, President and CEO of ArborOne Farm Credit, explains the Farm Credit system, how it operates, and how it has evolved.

Farm Finance

Truffle Media Networks — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 13:50:11 +0000

Farm Finance What are some of the issues with obtaining financing for farm operations? How are farmers fairing into today's credit markets?

CropVillage update for July 2, 2009, Commodity Swaps - Good, Bad and Ugly, Plus Climate Change Legislation May Burn Agriculture

John Blue — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:12:05 +0000

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Update for July 2, 2009

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On the one hand…

Conversations with Washington watchers the past week during the climate legislation reinforced the willingness of coastal regions to sock it to the midwest when possible, ala’ coal burning regions to feel the heat of the energy cap and trade legislation. As an energy intensive industry, we’ll pay more than we get.

On the other hand…

Hard work by Ag Committee Dems helped contain the damage and ensured the USDA will manage much of agriculture’s involvement.

Having said that, what comes out on the other side of the Senate’s version and following conference committee work will surely look different if we see it at all. Current conventional wisdom says, "Not likely."

It’s a challenging time as my brother and I were discussing this week. I’m sure your family is having the same conversation.

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Blog: Tastes and Preferences, By Dennis DiPietre. "We usually think about demand in the two dimensional way that we are restricted to visualizing it in with a graph. That is, the amount demanded is a function of price. In actuality there are several other factors which determine demand that are embedded in those graphs but not visualized." Read more.
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Most viewed video presentation from The National Institute for Animal Agriculture's The Changing Face of Animal Agriculture conference held March 31 - April 1, 2009, Louisville, Kentucky, USA.
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