The program uses the direct costs and yields from the 2014 projected crop budgets for nine regions of North Dakota.

The featured speaker is Jolene Brown who is a farmer, author and award-winning communicator.

NDSU Extension economist has some tax tips for producers.

The NDSU SURE program calculator is applicable to nearly all farm situations.

Farm gross cash revenue has increased by more than 150 percent in the past decade.

North Dakota farm family living expenditures increased by an average of 6.8 percent from 2004 to 2011.

However, producers are worried about whether average yields in 2013 will materialize. Unlike last spring, soil moisture is depleted.