We are paying about 5.4 percent more for food at the grocery store this year compared with last year.

We can use some strategies to keep our budgets balanced and avoid big credit card balances when January arrives.

When high school graduates leave home for further education or a job, they get their long-awaited freedom from parents and family rules.

This column is intended to provide you with an update on emerging economic and agribusiness issues and research.

A relatively new price risk management tool available to livestock producers is livestock risk protection (LRP) offered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s ...

Economic conditions under which the 2012 farm bill is being discussed are different from previous farm bills.

In southern Afghanistan, deals often are made by a handshake, and many disputes are handled at the village level, with residents deferring to the village or ...

Economics is a useful tool for analyzing how different factors affect a business.

Risk analysis is a major and vital component for short- and long-term successful growth and profitability.

The interest in flexible rents by landowners often is a result of a large rise in commodity prices, which has occurred this year.