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The single biggest change is the elimination of direct payments to farmers

Ron Haugen, NDSU Extension Service farm economist, has some items to note for your 2013 income tax preparation.

These planning prices can be used for preparing annual enterprise budgets and annual whole-farm cash flow projections.

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

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Through workshops, participants will learn how to analyze what they need and want from health-care providers, compare plans, calculate how health insurance will affect their financial budgets, and apply the information and knowledge gained to make a smart health insurance choice.

The USDA market information and outlook forecasts make an easy target for marketing analysts and farmers because they often question and sometimes criticize the information contained in key reports. However, we often do not think about what might happen if this information was not available “free of charge” to the general public.

There is a lack of consensus among economists on the impact trade liberalization has on technical efficiency.

Farm gross cash revenue has more than doubled during the past 10 years.

The podcasts feature agricultural topics ranging from rangeland management to crop prices.

The direct financial impact to North Dakota’s farmers of prevented-planted acres in 2013 is estimated at $626.9 million.

The survey summarizes approximately 2,700 reports from aerial operators, farmers, ranchers and other custom operators.

Consider the combination of circumstances that have fueled the strong land market and whether increases will continue.

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What farmers and ranchers want to be careful about is letting their personal stresses pile up so that their management practices and decision-making become negatively affected.

The emotional and physical needs of those who are undergoing stress from weather conditions are sometimes forgotten during a crisis.

The program compares prevented-planting with growing either the same crop for which a prevented-planting payment could be received or some other crop.

The CTR will focus on risk and commodity trading, in addition to finance, portfolio analysis and management.

Nearly 161,000 acres of cropland will be lost to the lake in 2013.

The most important questions about ACRE enrollment are whether the state will be eligible for an ACRE payment and for how much.

Farmers have experienced high demand and prices for their crops the past few years. However, farmers and experts agree that these conditions cannot be sustained forever.

The question is whether this huge increase has capped a 10-year rise in land values, which has been the largest in the past 100 years.

Some U.S. seedsmen and others have been approached by farmers or entities in Canada in an effort to buy Faller hard red spring wheat seed to plant in Canada.

At first glance, the projected prices per bushel look good at $5.65 for corn, $12.87 for soybeans and $8.44 for spring wheat.

Venkataramana Chapara joins the North Central Research Extension Center near Minot.

Because of the recent enactment of the American Taxpayer Relief Act, the IRS has to have time to test their software and design forms, so they have given producers more time to file.

The program provides a tool for producers to check the changing scenarios until final planting decisions are made this spring.

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