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Farm-capital expenditures increase

David Widmar Agricultural Economic Insights
Sep 15, 2018
Sep 15, 2018

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When times are difficult in agriculture, efforts to decrease costs and improve cash flow often necessitate a cut or delay in capital expenditures. Farm-capital expenditures, after peaking in 2014, rapidly contracted as net farm income and commodity prices decreased sharply. In this week’s post we’ll review recently released data that reveals farm-capital expenditure reversed course in 2017 and recently increased.

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