Issue 31
Marketing Guide 2000
 

Prairie Grains is the official publication of the Minnesota Association of Wheat Growers, North Dakota Grain Growers Association, South Dakota Wheat, Inc. and the Minnesota Barley Growers Association.

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Prairie Grains Marketing Guide 2000

1999 breakeven
yield per acre
 Crop Enterprise Analysis

ND Farm Business Management Education Program

Ave All Farms in FBM Avg of Low 20% Avg of High 20% Spring wheat own land 27.26 33.53 30.25 Spring wheat rent land 32.82 36.05 33.69 Barley on owned land 35.03 43.64 24.99 Barley on rented land 47.03 62.68 40.75 Canola on owned land 10.66 11.47 9.03 Canola on rented land 12.40 11.31 9.73 Corn on owned land 95.04 95.24 95.38 Corn on rented land      101.24    112.13 87.21 Soybeans on owned land 28.62 29.99 20.75 Soybeans on rented land 31.25 33.32 26.42 Oil sunflower own land 10.88 12.91 10.88 Oil sunflower rent land 12.36 17.65 10.80

These numbers are generated by farm management instructors using FINPACK software, with information from actual farms across North Dakota (excluding Red River Valley) and compiled at NDSU.

Complete enterprise analysis on over 20 crops (even prevented planting) as well as beef, dairy, and hogs in North Dakota in 1999 may be found online at www.ag. ndsu.nodak.edu/finance.htm.  The analysis includes gross and net returns per acre. Crop budgets that provide projected estimates of revenues and costs for selected crops in different regions of ND in 2000 can be found online at www.ext.nodak.edu/extpubs/ecguides.htm. A listing of farm business management educators in ND may be found online at www.voteched. state.nd.us/progar~1/ag/adult.htm.

Enterprise analysis of farms in Minnesota that participate in the Farm Business Management Program—as well as a listing of Minnesota FBM instructors—may be found online at www.northland. cc.mn.us/Management_Ed.htm.

FBM programs in Minnesota are available through the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU). These programs are administered through 8 college campuses with 85 different sites across the state. There are a total of 105 FBM instructors in Minnesota.