News Publications Current Managing Background Video

Financial News

• Choices for Your Farm Operating Loss  (9/22/09)
• Should I Downsize / Exit?  If So, How? (8/21/09)
• Un. Of Illinois Report: "What To Do About The Stock Market?" (3/9/09)
• The Credit Crisis and Agriculture: Too much happy Talk? (1/15/09)
• Economist: Farm credit available, more strings attached (10/27/08)
• Economist has hope for corn and soybean producers (10/15/08)
• Timely tips to help beef producers through hard times (10/14/08)
• Economists: Tough measures needed to cure economic ills (10/6/08)
• Soil testing may help minimize potassium, phosphorus costs (9/23/08)

Publications

Outlook And Current Situation

• Chicago Board of Trade
• Policy Options for Integrated Energy and Agricultural Markets
• The US Ethanol and Biofuels Boom: Its Origins, Current Status, and Future Prospects
• Corn:  Have Prices Reached the Bottom? 
• Soybeans:  More Acres, But Some Price Recovery Expected! 
• Uncertainty for Pork Industry Too
• Cattle Markets Caught up in Financial Outlook
• Hurt has hope for corn and soybean producers
• Financial Crisis Engulfs Agriculture
• The Financial Crisis: Is This a Repeat of the 80’S For Agriculture?
• Crop Input Prices for 2009: What Factors are at Work, What Might be Expected, and Should Your Management Change?
• Economist: Recession adds uncertainty to 2009 farmland leases
• Factors Shaping Price and Availability in This Year’s Fertilizer Market

Management in Times of Economic Crisis

• Income Enhancement Strategies for Farmers
• Strategies for Dealing with Agricultural Lenders
• Renegotiating Fixed-Price Hog Production Contracts
• Managing in Times of Financial Stress
• Family Finances
• Pork Contracting Considerations
• 12/99 PAER: Responding to Financial Stress What are the Options?
• The Financial Crisis: Implications For Farm Borrowers
• Financial Stress in Agriculture: Implications for Lenders
• Establishing a Cash Rent in an Uncertain Economic Environment
• Changing Input Costs and Grain Prices: Implications for Crop Selection and Management

General Economic Background & Knowledge

• The Evolution of Financial Crisis in 2008
• Will the Rescue Plan Work? What Might it Accomplish?
• Justification for a Rescue Plan
• Financial Crisis and the Housing Market

Video

Financial Crisis Seminar (October 6, 2008)
Philip Abbott, Michael Boehlje, Sugato Chakravarty, Larry DeBoer and David Hummels spoke about the financial crisis during a panel discussion on Purdue's West Lafayette campus. Purdue University economists said an ailing financial industry is going to need strong medicine to pull out of a deepening credit crunch brought on by risky loans and deregulation.
* News release: Economists: Tough measures needed to cure economic ills

Krannert School Discussion Of The U.S. Financial Crisis
On October 3, Purdue University’s Krannert School of Management held a faculty panel discussion about the causes and implications of the current financial crisis facing the United States. That same day, the House of Representatives passed a $700 billion bailout bill previously approved by the Senate; President Bush immediately signed the bill into effect.